{"id":30284,"date":"2025-05-04T17:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T00:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-may-2-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T17:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T00:44:16","slug":"news-roundup-for-may-2-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-may-2-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for May 2, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">Rent prices keep falling in the Toronto and Hamilton area, with a look at why and how long you can expect it to last; Mark Carney has a housing plan, but questions arise on how long it will take to implement; marathon takes over Toronto streets this weekend; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/rent-prices-keep-falling-in-the-toronto-and-hamilton-area-heres-why-and-how-long\/article_944e1db2-6b65-4ed5-9c4a-9ae2b8712a5b.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rent prices keep falling in the Toronto and Hamilton area. Here\u2019s why \u2014 and how long you can expect it to last<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11159482\/mark-carney-housing-plan-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Carney has a housing plan. How long will it take to implement?<\/a> (Global News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/05\/02\/toronto-marathon-weekend-events-road-closures\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weekend need-to-know: Marathon takes over Toronto streets<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/whose-city-is-it-anyway-this-toronto-walking-tour-leaves-you-questioning-what-public-space\/article_91a089d8-546a-458b-b789-02151b1fead7.html\" target=\"_blank\">Whose city is it, anyway? This Toronto walking tour leaves you questioning what public space really means<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/video\/2025\/05\/01\/cherry-blossoms-dazzle-torontonians-across-the-city\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cherry blossoms dazzle Torontonians across the city<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');<\/p>\n<p>fbq('init', '1760257484204295');\nfbq('track', \"PageView\");<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/urbantoronto.ca\/news\/2025\/05\/news-roundup-may-2-2025.58514\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Rent prices keep falling in the Toronto and Hamilton area, with a look at why and how long you &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for May 2, 2025\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-may-2-2025\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for May 2, 2025\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-toronto","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}