Local
City of Hamilton staff are presenting a new 10-year Housing and Homelessness Plan to Council this week, with the three main themes of the plan centred on “investment, housing fit, and equity.”
The action plan is meant to cover from now until 2035.
Staff wrote that investment, of both “funding and effort,” is key to the plan in order to build or renovate affordable housing and to provide housing subsidies and housing supports.
Local
A new report from city staff recommends against implementing a residency-based eligibility policy for Hamilton shelter access but says that staff should be directed to continue strengthening existing diversion practices and inter-municipal coordination.
National
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is finally getting a pipeline. But, after making concession after concession, this doesn’t feel like the pipeline win that Albertans and Canadians who support energy development have been longing for.
Opinion
These days, it appears the vast majority of Canada’s institutions – our courts, our governments, our legacy media and our government bureaucracies – are deliberately working hard to thwart Canada’s success.
National
School is out, Parliament has risen, and it feels like summer in the nation’s capital. For Mark Carney, Pierre Poilievre, and Avi Lewis, the next three months are less a recess than a reckoning.
