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Ontario’s Big City Mayors (OBCM) Meets with Deputy Premier and Minister of Health the Honourable Sylvia Jones to Discuss their Health and Homelessness Strategy
April 5, 2023 Yesterday Ontario’s Big City Mayors (OBCM) and several community partners met with the Honourable Sylvia Jones to discuss the homelessness, mental health and addictions crisis impacting Ontario’s cities. OBCM...
Ontario’s Big City Mayors Respond to the Province’s 2023 Budget
Ontario’s Big City Mayors (OBCM) would like to thank Premier Doug Ford and Minister of Finance Peter Bethlenfalvy for the 2023 Ontario Budget: Building a Strong Ontario. Through the budget consultation process, OBCM urged the...
Ontario’s Big City Mayors (OBCM) Statement on the Launch of the Federal Government’s Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF)
Ontario’s Big City Mayors (OBCM) would like to thank the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada and the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion for today’s launch of the...
OBCM in the News
Ontario announces more than $1.8B in new funding to help municipalities build homes
Desmond Brown
CBC News
Meed Ward: Ontario's municipal taxpayers need a better deal from the province and the feds
Marianne Meed Ward - Op-Ed
Ottawa Citizen
Ontario’s smaller towns and cities wants New Deals, too. Can the Tories keep saying no?
John Michael McGrath
TVO Today
Ontario shoots down big cities' ask to allow more of them to get housing infrastructure money
Allison Jones
Canadian Press
Doug Ford asked 50 municipalities to build housing to get cash. Were they set up to fail?
By Diana Zlomislic Investigative Reporter
Toronto Star
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