Colin D'Mello
Queen’s Park Bureau Chief at CIII-TV (Toronto, ON)
Queen’s Park Bureau Chief, Global News Host, Focus Ontario President, Queen's Park Press Gallery [email protected]
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3 days ago |
globalnews.ca | Isaac Callan |Colin D'Mello
Ontario will remove tolls from the public portion of Highway 407, the Ford government has confirmed, delivering on an election promise made in February but stopping well short of demands from many groups to work on buying back the entire toll route. On Tuesday, the province announced it would remove the tolls from Highway 407 East, which runs through Durham Region from Brock Road to Highway 35/155, beginning on June 1.
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3 days ago |
globalnews.ca | Isaac Callan |Colin D'Mello
At the beginning of the year, a lobby group representing Ontario’s developers released a comprehensive report laying out how the fees homebuilders have to pay have increased, making it harder to kickstart new homes that people can afford. The Ontario Home Builders Association released its development charges study in January, advocating for a more uniform approach across the province to provide stability.
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4 days ago |
globalnews.ca | Isaac Callan |Colin D'Mello
The Ford government has unveiled its latest round of housing with a push to streamline development charges in hopes of boosting its flagging homebuilding statistics. On Monday, Housing Minister Rob Flack gathered municipal leaders and developers at a news conference in Vaughan, Ont., to announce the bill, along with a round of infrastructure funding.
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1 week ago |
globalnews.ca | Isaac Callan |Colin D'Mello
Ontario’s top doctor says measles cases in the province remain stable and largely isolated to a few specific cultural communities, but concedes convincing those groups to get vaccinated is “slow going.”Since October, Ontario has recorded more than 1,400 new measles cases, linked to an outbreak that began at a large gathering with guests from Mennonite communities in New Brunswick last fall.
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1 week ago |
globalnews.ca | Isaac Callan |Colin D'Mello
More than a year after the Ford government reversed its controversial wage restraint legislation on the back of successive court defeats, a number of workers are still waiting for compensation. At the beginning of 2024, the government agreed to reverse its Bill 124, a controversial measure which had capped public sector pay increases at one per cent annually for three years.
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NEW: The Ford government is considering handing new powers to the minister of infrastructure that would allow her to exempt transit-oriented communities from a slew of zoning and planning rules, Global News has learned https://t.co/dQ6GcNJA1x #ONpoli
NEW: The Ford government is set to table legislation next week that will impose new rules on how municipal governments greenlight development projects, giving the province direct say over parts of the permitting process. https://t.co/18LZWDOGdI #ONpoli
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says there isn't a rift between himself and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. The two have an ongoing texting relationship and Ford suggests they're having ongoing conversations about interprovincial trade barriers. #onpoli
