David Rider
City Hall Bureau Chief at The (Toronto) Star
Aging journo with the calves of a 15-year-old and a love of the absurd. Also, Toronto Star senior political reporter. Please email tips to drider(at)https://t.co/itPuVYWp6V
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4 weeks ago |
stcatharinesstandard.ca | David Rider
Just months before the start of the 146th Canadian National Exhibition, the annual fair has fired chief executive officer Darrell Brown and his wife, who was running an art gallery on the fair grounds, the Star has learned. The messy dispute has the Canadian National Exhibition Association (CNEA) searching for a new CEO to run the August event and navigate major challenges, including event space lost to a hotel expansion and other activities on the city-owned exhibition grounds.
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1 month ago |
thespec.com | David Rider
Premier Doug Ford’s government originally envisioned a multi-level underground lot on Ontario Place grounds, which will also host an expanded Budweiser Stage concert venue and relocated Ontario Science Centre. Amid alarm over the cost of building underground on lake-surrounded landfill, however, provincial officials started talking to city staff about building the parkade — above or below ground — at city-owned Exhibition Place.
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1 month ago |
therecord.com | David Rider
Toronto and other municipalities are parsing the Ford government’s new homebuilding rules to figure out what, if any, local efforts to curb climate change and make communities weather-resilient will survive the legislation. Premier Doug Ford’s government says municipalities will lose the power to impose requirements upon developers beyond those in the provincial building code.
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1 month ago |
thespec.com | David Rider
Toronto and other municipalities are parsing the Ford government’s new homebuilding rules to figure out what, if any, local efforts to curb climate change and make communities weather-resilient will survive the legislation. Premier Doug Ford’s government says municipalities will lose the power to impose requirements upon developers beyond those in the provincial building code.
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1 month ago |
thespec.com | David Rider
The Ford government’s latest bid to jump-start housing construction appears to threaten Toronto’s 15-year-old “green standard,” which limits the greenhouse gas emissions new buildings can emit and ensures those homes are resilient to flash flooding and other consequences of climate change.
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