News Clippings
June 10
Vaughan News
Vaughan pilot project reveals staff misconduct (TheStar.com)
York Region events: 10 things to do this weekend (June 10-12) (YorkRegion.com)
Italian Contemporary Film Festival launches 2016 program (TorontoSun.com)
York Region News
Newmarket traffic statistics ‘amaze’ regional councillor (YorkRegion.com)
COLUMN: Aurora continues work as warm weather arrives (YorkRegion.com)
Permit parking project a go in downtown Stouffville, neighbourhoods (YorkRegion.com)
Property value increases don't necessarily mean higher taxes: Newmarket Regional Councillor John (YorkRegion.com)
Markham property assessments in mail next week (YorkRegion.com)
GTA News
Mayor Tory’s vote to build townhomes next to rail yard threatens SmartTrack plans (TheStar.com)
Toronto council passes scaled-back bike plan (TheStar.com)
Provincial News
What the new taxi bylaw means (TheRecord.com)
Details emerge of changes to Uber regulations (StCatherinesStandard.ca)
Federal News
Canada should base infrastructure spree on standardized statistics, experts say (TheStar.com)
Former Tory staffer Sona’s sentence for robocalls upheld (TheStar.com)
Vancouver and Toronto at rising risk of housing correction, Poloz warns (TheGlobeAndMail.com)
June 9
Vaughan News
MoneySense names 4 York Region municipalities among top 30 places to live in Canada (yorkregion.com)
Canada’s Best Places to Live 2016 (moneysense.ca)
2 subway extensions into York Region on track (yorkregion.com)
VINTAGE VAUGHAN: Family portrait, 1928 (yorkregion.com)
York Region News
Regional Express Rail Mitigating Impacts (NRU)
Richmond Hill property values spike highest in Ontario (yorkregion.com)
GTA News
Maintaining living infrastructure Green Deficit (NRU)
Monitoring GTA urban forests Regional Standard (NRU)
Council approves next step towards landlord licensing (thestar.com)
Mississauga’s ‘once in a century’ plan to remake itself (thestar.com)
Seven things that could help you during a disaster (thestar.com)
Provincial News
Waterloo Region's new Taxi By-law should be approved in August (570news.com)
Drugs for doctor-assisted death will be free in Ontario (thestar.com)
Paying a price for global warming and local politics (thestar.com)
Waste-Free Ontario Act passed (NRU)
New trails legislation passed (NRU)
Federal News
Insurance companies, cities work to shore up weaknesses in water infrastructure (theglobeandmail.com)
B.C. Chamber of Commerce urges policies for ‘sharing economy’ (theglobeandmail.com)
Justin Trudeau vows 'big’ infrastructure announcements coming soon (thestar.com)
Ottawa boosts funding to national legal aid programs (thestar.com)
June 8
Vaughan News
Premier visiting subway extension in Vaughan Monday morning (YorkRegion.com)
Trackwork complete for Toronto-York Spadina extension (rtands.com)
Tracklaying completed on Toronto-York subway (RailJournal.com)
York Region News
Newmarket clock tower redevelopment opponents submit petition with 1,200 names (YorkRegion.com)
Stouffville councillor defends ‘smart-ass’ remark (YorkRegion.com)
Richmond Hill councillor’s appeal of election expenses audit postponed (YorkRegion.com)
GTA News
Toronto councillor proposes cash or groceries in exchange for guns (TheGlobeAndMail.com)
Town of Oakville continues to treat municipal ash trees as EAB reach peak levels (InsideHalton.com)
Flawed Scarborough subway numbers could cost taxpayers millions (TheStar.com)
Toronto council opens a door to considering new revenue tools (TheStar.com)
Toronto lagging in global technology race (TheStar.com)
Toronto councillors split over possible sale of hydro, parking authority (TheGlobeAndMail.com)
Provincial News
Proposed taxi bylaw attempts to keep traditional industry stable (TheRecord.com)
Liberals to formally unveil $8.3B ‘climate change action plan’ (TheStar.com)
Federal News
Trudeau points to ‘black-and-whiteness’ of referendum in electoral reform debate: Paul Wells (TheStar.com)
Uber gets three-month reprieve from Quebec (MontrealGazette.com)
Vancouver Mayor Seeks to Tax Empty Homes Amid Soaring Prices (Bloomberg.com)
June 7
Vaughan News
Completion of trackwork for the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension (newswire.ca)
York Region News
York Region Centre for Community Safety honoured by Ontario government (yorkregion.com)
Councillor Dave Kerwin questions Newmarket Mayor’s leadership (yorkregion.com)
Aurora residents raise animal welfare concerns around petting zoo at street festival (yorkregion.com)
GTA News
Traffic-flow trial project will send police to congested intersections (thestar.com)
Toronto council to look at licensing apartment buildings (thestar.com)
Lagging ridership a problem for the TTC - and a mystery (thestar.com)
Build it, and they will sit (thestar.com)
Toronto’s politics sour what should be transit joy (thestar.com)
Provincial News
Revealed: Ontario’s ‘climate change action plan’ (thestar.com)
Ontario to create referral service, provide drugs at no cost for assisted dying (cbc.ca)
Oakvillegreen launches TreeKeepers Program at Oakville's Pelee Woods (insidehalton.com)
Human Rights Watch takes Canada to task for unsafe water in Ontario reserves (thestar.com)
Federal News
Trudeau’s electoral-reform choice is a long shot (theglobeandmail.com)
June 6
Vaughan News
Yonge-Spadina subway extension (GlobalNews.ca)
Premier In Vaughan To Make Subway Extension Announcement (640Toronto and 900chml.com)
Vaughan environmental showdown fizzles as Pine Valley plan hits roadblock (YorkRegion.com)
THE DUMP NEXT DOOR (TheStar.com)
Residents, experts work to save injured deer in Richmond Hill backyard (YorkRegion.com)
York Region News
In-home paramedic visits to continue in York Region (YorkRegion.com)
Aurora council defers Yonge Street parking pilot to 2017 budget (YorkRegion.com)
Town of Aurora seeks business ambassadors (YorkRegion.com)
GTA News
Coun. Jim Karygiannis harassed, intimidated residents: Watchdog (MetroNews.ca)
Zanotti named incoming York/Toronto United Way CEO (YorkRegion.com)
Barrie residents feeling pain of intensified development (Simcoe.com)
Build Hwy. 407 through Durham and businesses will follow, say local officials (DurhamRegion.com)
Toronto’s politics sour what should be transit joy: James (TheStar.com)
Provincial News
Ontario urged to ‘get ahead’ of coming population boom (TheStar.com)
Federal News
How the sharing economy is affecting the way we work (CBC.ca)
Don’t expect action on Vancouver housing crisis; maybe a task force (TheGlobeAndMail.com)
Canadian nationality ranked better than most but behind many (TheGlobeAndMail.com)
Infrastructure decisions will be left in hands of cities: Trudeau (TheGlobeAndMail.com)
