When Toronto councillors debate John Tory's violations of the city's code of conduct next week, experts say they'll face the same problem their counterparts across Ontario face when dealing with similar violations: enforcement is "toothless."
The Region of Waterloo and Guelph councils saw massive reports on homelessness this week that clearly laid out the issues the two municipalities face when it comes to getting people off the streets. But two experts say it shouldn't be up to municipalities alone to figure out what works.
A newly released climate change report commissioned by the Ford government warns of a significant increase in extreme weather across the province in the coming decades. This comes after a summer marked by prolonged periods of extreme heat, rainstorms and unprecedented wildfire smoke in the province.