News Clippings
Oct. 14
Vaughan News
Ontario adding 2,400 new parking spaces at 2 Vaughan GO stations (YorkRegion.com)
Ontario Making Daily Commute Easier for Vaughan Families (News.Ontario.ca)
York Region News
York Region transit facility achieves LEED Silver certification (DailyCommercialNews.com)
Toronto Real Estate Board exploring future York Region economic development (REMOnline.com)
GTA News
Community Council nixes plan for 80-storey tower at Toronto city core (InsideToronto.com)
Rail deck park can happen, because it happened in Weston: Keenan (TheStar.com)
Ottawa’s new mortgage rules will drive up rents in Toronto: study (TheGlobeandMail.com)
Provincial News
Ontario taxpayers on hook for $25 million over stalled wind power project (TheStar.com)
City of Peterborough selling wood saved from Emerald Ash Borer (ThePeterboroughExaminer.com)
Federal News
How plowed snow could keep Canadians cool in the summer (TheStar.com)
Oct. 13
Vaughan News
Toronto Hydro attending mutual aid conference ahead of storm season (NewsWire.ca)
Approval recommended for Jane-Hwy 7 development (NRU)
Vellore townhouses proposed (NRU)
Plaza & Berkeley's The Met to Join Vaughan's Emerging Core (UrbanToronto.ca)
York Region News
Richmond Hill to oppose townhouses at OMB (NRU)
Richmond Hill to support revised subdivision proposal at OMB (NRU)
Stouffville library receives $10,000 donation from Lions Club (YorkRegion.com)
Nature Conservancy of Canada protects more of GTA’s Happy Valley Forest (TheGlobeandMail.com)
GTA News
Some Oakville ZBL/OPA appeals resolved (NRU)
Province Beings Consultation (NRU)
Low Carbon Cities (NRU)
City Considers Quick Wins (NRU)
Huge Potential for bicycle trips in GTA (NRU)
Creating Certainty (NRU)
Halton ROP review update (NRU)
Cycling strategies need to focus on women, report says (TheStar.com)
Ajax mayor wants Carruthers Creek headwaters in Greenbelt (TheStar.com)
Scuttled Crosstown deal sparks debate about Toronto transit and development (TheStar.com)
The 905 feels the heat from Toronto’s hot housing market (TheStar.com)
Real estate coalition says commercial parking tax a ‘grenade’ for Toronto business (TheStar.com)
Provincial News
Province to undertake OMB review (NRU)
Liberals scramble to get eHealth appraised before AG weighs in (TheStar.com)
Federal News
NDP submission on electoral reform remarkably free of specifics: Hebert (TheStar.com)
Ottawa to spend $55-million over three years on rail safety (TheGlobeandMail.com)
Vancouver foreign buyer tax could prompt ‘mild’ ripples in other markets (TheGlobeandMail.com)
Pit bull bylaw suspension harms public interest, Montreal says in appeal request (CBC.ca)
Oct. 12
Vaughan News
Vaughan staff fear reprisals for speaking out: Integrity Commissioner (YorkRegion.com)
Reject requests to develop on Greenbelt, environmentalist urges province (YorkRegion.com)
Vaughan city hall hosts Hispanic Heritage Celebration, flag raising (YorkRegion.com)
Library of the future unveiled (GlobalNews.ca)
Proper food can be the ace up a tennis player’s sleeve (GlobeandMail.com)
York Region News
Province seeks input on alternatives to new 400-series highway (YorkRegion.com)
Seneca College receives $3M donation from Magna for King campus expansion (YorkRegion.com)
National Smile Cookie campaign draws $7M in support of local charities (YorkRegion.com)
GTA News
Rental property built in residential North York neighbourhood leads to 5-year fight with City (TheStar.com)
Provincial News
Plant-a-Tree Day helps replenish Fort Erie’s tree population (ErieMedia.ca)
Law allowing exemptions to Ontario’s endangered species rules upheld (TheStar.com)
Federal News
Maxime Bernier Wants To Force Government Officials To Use Uber (HuffingtonPost.ca)
Economists predict mortgage rules may cool new construction as September tops expectations
(FinancialPost.com)
B.C. Election Act challenged in Supreme Court of Canada (FinancialPost.com)
Oct. 11
Vaughan News
Groups work together to spruce up Thornhill parkette (YorkRegion.com)
Flag Raising Ceremony held in Markham, Richmond Hill and Vaughan to celebrate China’s 67th National Day (MingPao.com)
Mohawk College, feds building $9.3M cleantech R&D site in Woodbridge, Ont. (CanadianManufacturing.com)
Holly era to end in March, Parkin has inside track as successor (MadHunt.com)
Brampton councillors pull plug on Internet voting (BramptonGuardian.com)
York Region News
Aboriginals, youth overrepresented in York Region homeless population (YorkRegion.com)
Newmarket's public transit bus rapidway cuts travel times by a third (YorkRegion.com)
New southern Ontario cycling trail on track to begin construction in 2017 (CyclingMagazine.ca)
Aurora considers blowing whistle on GO Transit train horns (YorkRegion.com)
Ruling on Richmond Hill anti-SLAPP legislation case delayed (YorkRegion.com)
Central York Fire Services smart technology trailer helps residents prepare for emergency (YorkReigon.com)
Aurora pedestrian underpasses to cost more than double original budget (YorkRegion.com)
Markham Pan Am Centre lights the way with new solar panels (YorkRegion.com)
GTA News
Clarington still fighting emerald ash borer (DurhamRegion.com)
Brampton facing fourth lawsuit over $500 million development deal (TheStar.com)
City fires contractor on College St. sidewalk project (TheStar.com)
Inflammatory article about Mississauga finds new home online (TheStar.com)
Growing pains (TheGlobeAndMail.com)
Provincial News
New type of household solar power system (TBNewsWatch.com)
Hamilton’s ride-hailing bylaw ready for late in 2016. (HamintonNews.com)
Sarnia mayor harassed, bullied city workers, report finds (TheStar.com)
Federal News
Confusion, tension, arrests cloud rollout of Quebec's Uber deal (CBC.ca)
