Council votes 7–4 to freeze development charges for two years
After a marathon session that ran past 2:40 a.m., council bet that cheaper building fees will restart stalled projects — and left staff to…
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Province orders a fresh study of the LRT tunnel — and the clock starts again
The downtown tunnel option for the Hurontario extension gets another review before a route is locked. Downtown businesses get another year…
ER waits in Brampton hit 9.4 hours — the worst number in a bad provincial quarter
The latest provincial figures put Brampton's emergency waits at the top of the chart again, in a city still running one full-service…
A year of legal fourplexes, nine actually built: what's stalling gentle density
Council legalized fourplexes citywide to real fanfare. The permit data says the hard part was never the zoning.
Vacancy at 0.7%: Airport Road's warehouse boom is running out of warehouse
The logistics corridor that powers Brampton's job market is effectively full — and the next million square feet is a fight over farmland.
35,000 homes, no water plan: Caledon's growth math has a missing column
The province assigned the numbers. The servicing studies that would make them buildable are years behind the assignment.
The consultant line item is up 61% in five years. Council wants to know what it bought.
A routine audit-committee question turned into a full inventory of external studies — including several that duplicate work the city…
A transit levy, a parks levy, or neither: the budget's real fight arrives in the fall
With development-charge revenue frozen, the money for the capital plan has to come from somewhere. Staff will put two dedicated levies on…