OMERS (the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System) has a number of professional training sessions and materials, which provides OMERS employers the opportunity to learn more about their OMERS pension plan. Training opportunities include online e-Learning modules and fac...
In light of Elections Ontario recent report containing recommendations to improve the municipal voters’ list, AMCTO has released a second edition of its Issue at a Glance briefing note series on the Voters’ List. Elections Ontario’s report, Modernizing Ontario’s Elect...
The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) today opened applications for its cost-sharing funding program, the Rural Economic Development (RED) program. The fund supports activities which create strong rural communities and the opportunity of rural e...
Last week, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) called on every federal political party to commit to permanently doubling the value of the annual federal Gas Tax Fund (GTF) transfer. To build off the momentum of 2019’s federal budget one-time doubling of GTF, FCM...
The Ontario government today announced that it will provide $30 million in provincial funding in 2019-20 to 25 municipal infrastructure projects through the Connecting Links Program. The funding for this year will cover up to 90% of project costs, to a maximum of $3 mill...
Premier Doug Ford today announced a new plan to improve and expand service for rural and remote communities. The plan, Up to Speed: Ontario’s Broadband and Cellular Action Plan , will see an investment from the province of $315 million over five years, which the government s...
As directed in the government’s More Homes, More Choice: Ontario’s Housing Supply Action Plan , the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing is proposing changes to the Provincial Policy Statement (PPS) – a consolidated statement of the government’s policies on land use pla...
Ontario’s Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade is proposing a regional immigration pilot that would bring skilled foreign workers to rural and smaller communities to the province in 2020. This pilot would be administered by the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Pr...
Following the announcement at the end of January at the annual Rural Ontario Municipalities Association (ROMA) by Premier Doug Ford, the Ministry of the Attorney General for Ontario has opened up consultations on joint and several liability, insurance costs, and the affect ‘li...
Schedule 3 of the recently passed Bill 108, More Homes, More Choice Act, 2019 makes amendments to the Development Charges Act . The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing is proposing additional regulations to prescribe matters, which the government says will help red...