On August 15 th , Saskatoon’s city manager Jeff Jorgenson announced that the city had been the victim of a cyber-attack. Jorgenson said a fraudster impersonated a local construction company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and asked for a change in banking information. The ...
Today at the annual Association of Municipalities Ontario (AMO) conference, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Steve Clark discussed the reporting burden file – one of AMCTO’s key policy priorities since 2017. Building off Premier Ford’s address yesterday, Minister ...
Premier Doug Ford today delivered a keynote during AMO’s annual conference in Ottawa. Below is a brief summary of his address: Announcing September 3 rd as the intake date for the third stream, Community, Culture, and Recreation Stream, of the federal Investing in ...
Jeff Yurek, Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, and Steve Clark, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, today announced that the current provincial Blue Box Program will be significantly reformed based on the recommendations from Special Advisor David Lin...
AMCTO is pleased to be partnering with IoT Events for the upcoming Intelligent Cities Summit, which will be held on October 7 th -8 th in Toronto. The conference will gather the world’s leading municipal professionals and tech experts to discuss, network, and inform each ...
Ontario’s Minister of Finance Rod Phillips yesterday wrote to the Heads of Council of all eligible Ontario municipalities notifying them that the Ministry will soon be releasing $6.74 million through the Ontario Cannabis Legalization Implementation Fund (OCLIF). According t...
David Lindsay, the Special Advisor on Recycling and Plastic Waste, has submitted his report to MECP (Ministry of Environment, Conservation, and Parks) Minister Jeff Yurek, which would see significant reforms to Ontario’s Blue Box program. The report found that diversion ...
The Information and Communications Standards Development Committee is proposing changes to accessibility standards relating to Information and Communications under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), 2005 . The Act became law in 2005 with a goal t...
With the help of CAMA (Canadian Association of Municipal Administrators), FCM is looking for assistance from municipalities to help inform their efforts on cannabis policy and advocacy once the federal government revisits the federal-municipal legalization agreement in Decemb...
The Ontario government is beginning its second phase of consultations on the province’s Data Strategy, which is due to be released at the end of the year. The government has also made available a Discussion Paper that is available for comment during this round of consu...