On Monday, Ontario passed the “More Homes Built Faster Act” – a controversial part of Premier Doug Ford’s plan for 1.5 million new homes in the next decade.
Bill 23 includes measures like reducing developer fees that cities say are crucial for services and infrastructure and permits triplexes on single residential lots.
Ford has also already given the mayors of Toronto and Ottawa extraordinary powers, including overruling majority votes in city council in certain circumstances. And the Ford government is moving to open up parts of the province’s Greenbelt for development – a supposedly permanently protected area that Ford said he wouldn’t “touch.”
Today, CBC Toronto reporter Ryan Patrick Jones joins us to explain the controversies over Ford’s housing plan, and why critics say it’s the wrong kind of vision for a growing province.
Three high-profile candidates with left-leaning credentials are among 12 council hopefuls battling it out to represent Ward 11, University-Rosedale one of seven seats where there’s no incumbent running.
Indigenous people are gathering across the GTA for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to remember the children who died after being forced into church-run and government-funded residential schools. It's also meant to honour those who survived and made it home, and the families and communities still affected by the lasting trauma.
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