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Municipal corruption in Ontario has, predictably, exploded as City Hall descends into the Wild West

In Rideau Lakes, what has been labelled the most dysfunctional council in Ontario, saw seven integrity commissioner reports ...
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Canada’s first federal youth-led climate trial begins in Federal Court

In a legal challenge pitting a roster of federal lawyers backed by the full force of Canada’s ruling government against a ...
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Brampton’s Centre for Innovation eight years later: A history of silence and Patrick Brown’s broken promises

In April 2018, former Brampton mayor Linda Jeffrey described the proposed Centre For Innovation (CFI) as a ...
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Brampton taxpayers shouldered more than $5k to fly Rod Power and a City staffer to attend a World Culture Festival

Brampton taxpayers shouldered more than $5k to fly Rod Power and a City staffer to attend a World Culture Festival ...
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Patrick Brown’s missing $8 billion: Fact checking his Build Brampton flyer that has inflated investments, unsecured funding and an unopened hospital

Fact checking his Build Brampton flyer that has inflated investments, unsecured funding and an unopened hospital ...
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Data centres, floods, affordable housing: What Mississauga’s next mayor must confront in a climate crisis

In a tight race to lead one of Canada’s fastest-growing big cities, incumbent Carolyn Parrish is facing two of her council ...
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St. Catharines mayor’s eleventh-hour push to shift GM cleanup costs onto taxpayers

St. Catharines Ward 3 Councillor Kevin Townsend moved swiftly to defer Mayor Mat Siscoe’s controversial GM lands proposal ...
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Monica Singh Soares says Brampton’s public consultation is mostly ‘token’, she wants to run Wards 7 and 8 differently

Monica Singh Soares says Brampton’s public consultation is mostly ‘token’, she wants to run Wards 7 and 8 differently ...
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‘I just think it's slimy’: Chris Fonseca and her MP husband Peter accused of using federal tax dollars to bolster her re-election campaign

Chris Fonseca and her MP husband Peter accused of using federal tax dollars to bolster her re-election campaign ...
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Caledon’s next mayor inherits a town divided over how far growth should go

On a chilly Monday at the beginning of October, Caledon resident Al Axworthy carefully drove past a line of trucks to one of the 12 parcels of land outgoing mayor Annette Groves prematurely rezoned ...