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  • 22 hours ago | thetrillium.ca | Steve Cornwell

    The Ford government’s encampment crackdown bill has come to pass. The Ontario legislature has passed the Safer Municipalities Act, which aims to break up homeless encampments and would allow police to confront, arrest and fine anyone they suspect of using drugs in public. Bill 6 allows fines of up to $10,000 for people found to have broken trespassing or public-consumption laws. Breaking the new consumption law could also mean a six-month jail sentence.

  • 1 week ago | thetrillium.ca | Steve Cornwell

    Ontario has received a middling grade in a new report ranking provincial and federal government efforts to get more housing built. The report, released Thursday by housing think tank Missing Middle Initiative, gave Ontario a “C” grade for its overall housing efforts, placing the province behind Quebec, PEI and British Columbia in the ranking.

  • 1 week ago | thetrillium.ca | Jack Hauen |Katherine DeClerq

    The Ford government is looking to bypass municipalities to get select training centres built, to the delight of several construction industry leaders.

  • 1 week ago | thetrillium.ca | Mark Pare

    A Guelph city councillor says Bill 5 is just the Greenbelt scandal all over again. Coun. Leanne Caron was one of several guest speakers at a rally and march held Saturday to combat the controversial Bill 5, which the Ontario government said would give it the ability to fast-track development projects by creating exemption zones. Those zones would be exempt from provincial and municipal laws. The bill would repeal the Endangered Species Act.

  • 1 week ago | thetrillium.ca | Keegan Kozolanka

    Two senior staff members are no longer employed by the City of Cambridge, but officials have not disclosed the reasons for or nature of their departures. This comes on the heels of a recent strong mayor decision that shifted certain administrative powers back to Mayor Jan Liggett. Following up on a news tip, CambridgeToday has learned that chief planner Bob Bjerke and manager of special events Matt Cuthbert are no longer employed by the city as of this week.