Under Reg. 528/06 of the Metrolinx Act 2006, the proposal extends the expiry date of the current municipal development charge by-laws for GO Transit's growth and expansion capital costs enabled by this Regulation for another three years, until December 31, 2019. In add...
Effective January 1 st , 2017, all two truck operators will be required to possess a valid Commercial Vehicle Operators Registration (CVOR) Certificate. This applies to tow trucks, including: • A motor vehicle commonly known as a tow truck; • A commercial motor ...
The Institute for Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG) has released two new papers by post-doctoral fellow Abigail Friendly. The first paper, Participatory Budgeting: The Practice and the Potential , looks at how we can meaningfully involve local residents in the...
With Ranked Ballots being granted as an option for municipalities, it is time municipalities in Ontario find ways to demonstrate how they work to the public. While there is a provincial commitment to do some of this work, we wanted to share what Minnesota Public Radio has pr...
Federal MPs are back in Ottawa this week as the fall sitting of Parliament begins. The fall session is likely to be dominated by leadership contests for the Conservative and NDP parties, as well as debates surrounding a number of the government's key commitments, including: ...
The Toronto Police Service (TPS) released a report yesterday detailing the results of a pilot project that saw 85 officers wearing body cameras. According to the report "while the technology used did not meet all of the Service’s needs, body-worn cameras do provide the unbias...
The Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) released a letter to the Premier yesterday arguing that the private sector should have a role to play in any new legalized marijuana regime. In the letter the OCC argues that the government should create an open-bidding process for license...
The government announced today that it will maintain its previous commitment to move the 2018 provincial election to the spring, avoiding any potential conflict with that years municipal elections. The provincial campaign had previously been scheduled to end only two weeks bef...
Today the federal and provincial governments announced a bilateral agreement that will make more than $1.1 billion of combined funding (federal government will provide $570 million, provincial government will fund $270 million, and municipalities and first nations will make up...
Today, Lieutenant-Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell opened the 2nd Session of the 41st Parliament of Ontario with a speech from the throne. The speech was dedicated to outlining the government's priorities for growing Ontario's economy. Specifically, the Lieutenant-Governor indic...