Tag: Municipalities
The climate stakes of the Harris-Trump election | Great Lakes Now
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Helene and Milton, the two massive hurricanes that just swept into the country — killing hundreds of people, and leaving both devastation and rumblings of political upheaval in seven states — amounted to their own October surprise.
New rink floor at Bayshore will fix long-standing ice issue
When a new concrete slab and piping beneath the floor at the Harry Lumley-Bayshore Community Centre ice rink are installed next spring, it will correct an ice quality issue since the facility opened in 1983. A thinner slab, combined with new pipes which will allow faster heat transfer to make ice faster, and allow for […]
Voting period opens on South Bruce DGR referendum
Voting has opened in the Municipality of South Bruce on a referendum that will help determine if the municipality is willing to be the site of an underground storage vault for Canada’s spent nuclear fuel. Voters were eligible to cast their ballots either online or via telephone on the referendum question beginning at 10 a.m. on […]
Baranyai: Quebec proposal takes health care rationing to new level
If trying to lure doctors to a community smells desperate, reassigning them has the stench of battlefield medicine, Robin Baranyai argues.
Ontario mayors seek mental-health law reviews: ‘Absolute crisis’
Ontario Big City Mayors are asking the province to review mental-health laws and whether to expand the scope of involuntary treatment for people who are addicted to drugs and live on the streets. The organization that represents 29 mayors of cities with more than 100,000 people say they are taking no position on treatment given […]
Growing Woodstock’s push for more land nears final approval
A land swap that would give Woodstock more room is a step closer to final approval after Oxford politicians approved the deal’s terms.
Another rural Southwestern Ontario community says no to wind turbines
A rural Oxford County township won’t back any new wind turbine projects on its turf until the province revises its policy and gives municipalities more information about their impacts. Zorra Township council has voted unanimously not to support a potential wind turbine project or any such future development in the community. The motion said it […]
How will province’s plan to restrict new bike lanes play out in London?
London academics and cycling advocates are puzzled by the province’s commitment to restrict new bike lanes, as city hall anxiously awaits how the legislation will look and work in practice. Ontario cities would have to seek the provinceâs permission to install new bike lanes that remove lanes of vehicle traffic under upcoming legislation, the transportation […]
Grey County task force seeks to make some busy rural roads safer
A Grey County task force proposes to transfer more than 50 kilometres of its urban county roads, bridges and sewers to municipalities and assume and make safer certain increasingly busy rural municipal roads roads in exchange for other county rural roads. County council decided Thursday to receive a report which provided lists of affected roads, […]
Bruce County council gets first look at 2025 draft budget
Bruce County‘s draft budget is calling for a 6.81 per cent tax levy increase next year. County staff on Thursday presented the proposed 2025 capital and operating budgets to council. The proposed 6.81 per cent increase, which includes a 1.5 per cent growth assumption would result in an $82 increase in county taxes for the […]