With Toronto’s mayoral race reaching its full stride, find out what kind of transit improvements the City’s leading candidates are promising; Ontario’s NDP party gets involved in Ontario Place conversation, calling on the Conservatives to cancel the lease of Ontario Place lands to Therme Group; plans for a new airport in pickering were first proposed 50 years ago, decades later, opponents of the proposal hope it will be put away for good; and other news.
Inside the Toronto mayoral campaign: A shiny new subway — and other transit promises you may have missed this week (Toronto Start)
NDP call for cancellation of Ontario Place lease with Therme (CTV News)
Pickering airport proposal is 50 years old. Opponents hope it will finally be scrapped (Global News)
The obsession, and its untold costs, of trying to find housing in Toronto (Toronto Star)
A way to persuade homeowners to embrace housing development in their own backyards (Globe and Mail)
Doug Ford’s government wants a bigger role in selling off school buildings. Here’s what might be lost (Toronto Star)
Unions, supporters take to Ontario Science Centre in protest of plans to move location (CBC)
Toronto election: Why one expert would bar candidates from making transit promises (CP24)
Canadians need sports venues. Is there a better way than waiting for the next Olympics or Pan Am Games? (Toronto Star)
Why more rent control isn’t going to fix Toronto’s housing affordability problem (Globe and Mail)
Gordon Lightfoot Square? Idea floated to rename Toronto landmark after late singer (CityNews)