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The mayor of Mississauga and other municipal leaders who have voiced opposition to a new provincial housing law need to ``get on board'' and ``stop whining,'' Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday in an unprompted burst of criticism.…

OTTAWA – The Bank of Canada hit a turning point on Wednesday when it announced a half percentage point interest rate increase while signalling it might be ready to pause its aggressive rate hike cycle.The central bank hiked its key…

CLARINGTON, Ont. – Ontario has no plans to allow homes to be built on floodplains, Premier Doug Ford said Friday after the federal environment minister warned Ottawa would not provide disaster compensation where development is greenlit…

VANCOUVER — The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says the typically slow conditions it sees in November were even more sluggish last month as home sales dropped 53 per cent from a year ago and 15 per cent from October.The B.C.…

TORONTO — Ontario is promising to make municipalities ``whole,'' if they can't fund housing infrastructure and services due to a new provincial law.Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark wrote to the Association of…

Therme Canada has released the detailed plans of the revitalization of Ontario Place, which was submitted to the City of Toronto on Friday, November 25, 2022. “Therme Canada, our partners at the Province of Ontario and the City of…

OTTAWA — A new report by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says government alone can't solve the country's housing affordability challenges.The scale of the problem is so large that the private sector must be involved, says the report…

On Friday, over a dozen of Ontario’s most prominent architectural firms issued an open letter to Premier Ford and Minister Clark in response to Ontario’s proposed Bill 23. The letter read as follows:We are writing to you as leading…

OTTAWA – The full effects of interest rate hikes have yet to be felt – and will be ``even more powerful'' than many anticipate, said former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz Thursday in a speech about ways Canada can chart a path…

OTTAWA – Governments looking to provide inflation relief to Canadians should choose measures that are well targeted and temporary, says Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem.At a House of Commons committee meeting Wednesday, Conservative…