{"id":31768,"date":"2025-08-09T21:08:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-august-8-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T21:08:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:08:40","slug":"news-roundup-for-august-8-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-august-8-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for August 8, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">A look at why some GTA homes are listed at just $1; celebrate Chinatown and satisfy some cravings with multiple food fests this weekend in Toronto; TRREB applauds Ontario Premier&#8217;s comments on Ontario housing affordability; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/photos\/2025\/08\/08\/buzz-and-attention-why-some-gta-homes-are-listed-at-just-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Buzz and attention&#8217;: Why some GTA homes are listed at just $1<\/a> (CTV News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/08\/07\/weekend-need-to-know-celebrate-chinatown-and-satisfy-some-cravings-with-multiple-food-fests\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weekend need-to-know: Celebrate Chinatown and satisfy some cravings with multiple food fests<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/trreb.ca\/trreb-applauds-premier-fords-comments-on-ontario-housing-affordability\/\" target=\"_blank\">TRREB Applauds Premier Ford\u2019s Comments on Ontario Housing Affordability<\/a> (TRREB)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/overdoses-increasing-safe-consumption-site-closures-ontario-1.7603288\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto community services face &#8216;absolute fallout&#8217; of consumption site closures<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11315793\/ontario-highway-407-trucks-brainstorming\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario government directed staff to \u2018brainstorm\u2019 how to subsidize truck tolls on Hwy. 407<\/a> (Global News)<\/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\/08\/news-roundup-august-8-2025.59154\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A look at why some GTA homes are listed at just $1; celebrate Chinatown and satisfy some cravings with &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for August 8, 2025\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-august-8-2025\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for August 8, 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-31768","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\/31768","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=31768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}