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Government & Policy
Three days after election night on Saturday, Vancouver mayor-elect Pete Fry is already preparing to take the reins at City Hall, where he will lead a largely new Vancouver City Council facing a very steep learning curve...
Government & Policy
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) counted 143,929 homes in September that have approved building permits and no construction started.That count, reported alongside CMHC’s figures for centres of 50,000 or mor...
Government & Policy
Housing affordability is a defining issue ahead of the October 26 municipal election across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and beyond. In the latest episode of TRREB’s Ready to Real Estate podcast, Chief Information Offi...
Government & Policy
It has been a record-breaking turnout for the Vancouver civic election so far, and final voting day is nigh, with a plethora of council candidates to choose from. For voters who haven’t yet cast a ballot and who are stil...
Government & Policy
Vancouver International Airport (YVR) collects considerably less aviation-related revenue per passenger than several major for-profit airports overseas, according to a new report that urges the Government of Canada to st...
Government & Policy
More than 50 people are vying to lead Toronto for the next four years, but polls suggest it will be a tight race between incumbent Olivia Chow and councillor Brad Bradford.
Government & Policy
Vancouver International Airport (YVR) could be the first major Canadian airport to bring in private investors under the Government of Canada’s proposed overhaul of airport operations. This follows Prime Minister Mark Car...
Government & Policy
With Ontario’s municipal election on Monday, October 26, voters across the GTA and Simcoe are hearing increasingly detailed debates about housing affordability, property taxes, infrastructure, development charges, and ho...
Government & Policy
Metro Vancouver Regional District is rejecting the Conservative Party of British Columbia’s case for removing several of its responsibilities, arguing that the party’s election-time criticism overlooks recent spending re...
Government & Policy
Something that no Vancouver mayoral candidate has yet taken the time to prioritize and address is the rat problem facing the city — that is, until Vancouver Liberals Leader Kareem Allam announced that he would implement...
Government & Policy
On October 26, voters across Ontario will elect the municipal leaders who will make some of the most important decisions affecting housing affordability and supply in their communities. This is a housing election, and vo...
Government & Policy
Surrey mayoral candidate Mike Starchuk is proposing a new Fraser River waterfront destination and a cricket and rugby stadium as part of a push to bring major international sporting events to the city. Starchuk’s Imagine...
Opinion
Written for Daily Hive Urbanized by Mike Starchuk, the Imagine Surrey candidate for Mayor of Surrey in the October 2026 civic election. A former MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale and a 32-year veteran of the Surrey Fire Service,...
Government & Policy
Small-scale infill projects have gone from a barely noticeable share of Toronto’s housing starts to a more meaningful one in just two years, according to a new analysis from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)...
Government & Policy
85% of GTA and Barrie residents are concerned about housing affordability and 69% say housing will impact their vote in the upcoming municipal election Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Barrie residents are signalling stron...
Expert
For years, the housing crisis was treated as an unfortunate byproduct of growth rather than the defining economic challenge of our time. That is finally changing.Governments have begun to recognize that housing affordabi...
Government & Policy
The City of Vaughan and Simcoe County announced substantial reductions to their development charges through the Ontario Development Charge Reduction Program (DCRP). These announcements highlight an important principle fo...
Government & Policy
Nate Erskine-Smith previously was Liberal MP for Beaches-East York since 2015 and Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities from late 2024 to mid-2025.
Government & Policy
Ontario’s highest provincial court has cleared a major legal obstacle to Premier Doug Ford’s plan to remove municipally-built protected bike lanes from several major busy streets within the City of Toronto. In an unanimo...
Government & Policy
The OneCity Vancouver party wants to rebuild and reestablish the City of Vancouver’s business support and investment attraction capacity, nearly three years after the ABC Vancouver party-led City Council wound down the V...
Opinion
Written for Daily Hive Urbanized by Lee Haber of SaveTheCaps, the grassroots advocacy campaign created by the Vancouver Southsiders — the oldest and largest supporters’ group for Vancouver Whitecaps FC — to raise awarene...
Government & Policy
The federal government is investing at least $2.7 billion to build more than 18 housing projects across Toronto.
Government & Policy
The federal government and the City of Toronto are putting more than $2.7 billion behind 18 rental housing projects across the city over the next three years, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Mayor Olivia Chow announced We...
EXPERT
There was a time when buying a home in Ontario was considered a realistic milestone of adulthood. For many young people today, it feels more like winning the lottery.A striking new poll conducted on behalf of Royal LePag...
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