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Time and money are growing concern for EA process, report says

A report from the Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario says the municipal class environmental assessment process is inflating costs for cities and reducing the ability of the province to build needed in ...

Soaring Pan Am security tied to London’s Games experience

Assistant Deputy Minister Tim Casey says $239 million price tag a result of changes in the costing for private security, which in turn was a lesson gleaned from the 2012 Summer Olympics. ...

Pan Am Games CEO Rafi wants to get Ontarians excited about event

Former deputy minister of health and long-term care Saad Rafi says the Pan Am Games are still on time and on budget, two months into his tenure there. ...

Ice storm relief fund set at $190 million

Minister of Municipal Affairs Linda Jeffrey's announcement draws cheers even though the sum is well short of what municipalities had called for immediately following the December disaster. ...

Wynne and Kelly meet: Ice storm relief coming this week, Build Toronto asking for changes

The premier and Toront's deputy mayor meet to discuss relief cash for December's ice storm and changes the city needs to make property sales easier. ...

Toronto City Council set to vote on requesting ODRAP funds for ice-storm cleanup

City staff estimate the ice storm has caused about $106 million in cleanup costs, but past precedence suggests Queen's Park will turn down Toronto's request. ...

Hudak woos big cities with final policy paper, says jobs growth happens downtown

Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak rolls out the last of party's policy papers, whose message to Toronto and other big cities is: Take a second look, we've changed. ...

New Ryerson centre to bring economics to land use policy

New centre will bring economics to the discipline of urban policy — a common perspective in the U.S., but still rare in Canada says director David Amborski. ...

Happening: Unemployment rate high for people with disabilities

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TO2015 says Games still on time and budget, with new audit feature coming in 2014

Pan/Parapan Am Games organizing committee will introduce its own internal auditor by next March, and says many major projects are more than two-thirds complete. ...

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