Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Sidhartha Banerjee
Publication Date: July 2, 2025 - 09:59
Montreal slow to adopt biweekly trash pick up plan
July 2, 2025
The garbage may be piling up and causing some disgruntlement on the sidewalks of a few Montreal streets, but municipal officials say it’s all part of a plan to become a zero-waste city by the year 2030.
And they say their plan is working.
Unpublished Newswire
Two people, including a three-year-old, died in separate drownings in Ontario on Saturday. Ontario Provincial Police are investigating after emergency services were called to Mille Roches Beach in Long Sault around 5:45 p.m. regarding a child with no vital signs. Police say off-duty medical professionals were attempting to resuscitate the child who was rushed to the hospital and later pronounced dead.
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Nanaimo councillor Ian Thorpe plans to ask council to formally request Island Health close the supervised drug use site near city hall amid concerns over local disorder.
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In a very civil tone, the mayor of Windsor, Ont., is asking the fresh faces in the Mark Carney-led Liberal government to butt out of city planning. Mayor Drew Dilkens especially wants to see an end to Trudeau-era affordable housing mandates from Ottawa that don’t serve his community.
“They were just hell-bent on putting forward this really left-principled version of what housing should be,” Drew says of the conditions imposed on cities under the $4-billion housing accelerator fund launched in 2023 by then federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser.
Unlike most other big cities in Canada,...
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