{"id":31998,"date":"2025-08-24T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-august-21-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:42:08","slug":"news-roundup-for-august-21-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-august-21-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for August 21, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">Canada isn\u2019t in a housing slump \u2014 Ontario is, RBC analysis shows; critics fear Ontario government plan to transfer part of popular Wasaga Beach could jeopardize more provincial parkland; Gardiner Expressway construction work moves further ahead of schedule; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11342262\/canada-housing-slump-ontario\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canada isn\u2019t in a housing slump \u2014 Ontario is, RBC analysis shows<\/a> (Global News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/real-estate\/who-owns-wasaga-beach-critics-fear-ford-plan-to-transfer-part-of-popular-beach-could\/article_a016d1a1-e64b-406c-94ef-9735771d1f0a.html\" target=\"_blank\">Who owns Wasaga Beach? Critics fear Ford plan to transfer part of popular beach could jeopardize more provincial parkland<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11342931\/gardiner-work-shorter-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gardiner Expressway construction work moves further ahead of schedule<\/a> (Global News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/sudbury\/pipeline-corridor-proposal-opposed-indigenous-environmental-groups-1.7612796\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario pipeline corridor proposal faces pushback over lack of Indigenous consultation, environmental risks<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/beloved-annex-restaurant-by-the-way-to-close-after-more-than-45-years-i-was\/article_bb7e7de6-8b07-4728-b339-bfac788faa02.html\" target=\"_blank\">Beloved Annex restaurant By The Way to close after more than 45 years: \u2018I was honoured to have the place\u2019<\/a> (The Star)<\/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-21-2025.59270\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Canada isn\u2019t in a housing slump \u2014 Ontario is, RBC analysis shows; critics fear Ontario government plan to transfer &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for August 21, 2025\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-august-21-2025\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for August 21, 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-31998","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\/31998","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=31998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}