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Back on October 29th, we blogged that the Province had announced a new COVID-19 Resilience Infrastructure stream which formed part of the Investing in Community Infrastructure Program (ICIP), with more details forthcoming.
Today, the Province announced that…
On November 16th, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) released, Building Back Better Together, its recommendations to build a better Canada during and after COVID-19. The release was made one day ahead of FCM's Advocacy Day on Parliament Hill.
The recommendations…
Update: As of November 20, 2020, Bill 218: Supporting Ontario's Recovery and Municipal Elections Act has received Royal Assent.
On November 16th, Bill 218: Supporting Ontario's Recovery and Municipal Elections Act, passed third reading after it had…
We have already blogged about several measures announced as part of the Fall 2020 Budget.
This post will focus on Bill 229: Protect, Support and Recover from COVID-19 Act (Budget Measures), 2020, which contains 44 Schedules that would make…
On November 13th 2020, the Province announced that it would be updating its threshold levels and advice within the COVID-19 Response Framework in response to updated modelling.
If the current case trajectory continues, according to the modelling, Ontario would see up to 6…
Minister of Finance, Rod Phillips,with his new Budget shoes, presented a long awaited 2020 Budget entitled Ontario’s Action Plan: Protect, Support and Recover. He also introduced legislation to implement Budget measures and to amend and repeal various acts (…
Ahead of November 5th Fall 2020 Budget, the Province released some more information about it's investment to improve and expand broadband and cellular access. AMCTO's pre-budget submission emphasized the need for broadband infrastructure investments.
The Province is…
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