{"id":32831,"date":"2025-10-18T23:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-october-17-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:35:11","slug":"news-roundup-for-october-17-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-october-17-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for October 17, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">CMHC reports annual pace of housing starts up in September; speed cameras &#8216;best tool for protecting our kids,&#8217; says Chow as Ontario eyes ban; Toronto Waterfront Marathon takes over the streets this weekend; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/cmhc-reports-annual-pace-of-housing-starts-up-in-september\/article_1f65b17b-c2db-514c-a893-be4dbcda7f14.html\" target=\"_blank\">CMHC reports annual pace of housing starts up in September<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/school-zone-safety-summit-mayor-city-opposition-provincial-plan-9.6941730\" target=\"_blank\">Speed cameras &#8216;best tool for protecting our kids,&#8217; says Chow as Ontario eyes ban<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/10\/16\/toronto-waterfront-marathon-weekend-events\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weekend need-to-know: Toronto Waterfront Marathon takes over the streets<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/real-estate\/forget-robots-former-sidewalk-labs-site-now-set-to-harbour-a-dense-urban-forest\/article_1cbfdd86-8a8f-4722-b7d5-40409c6dc3b7.html\" target=\"_blank\">Forget robots: former Sidewalk Labs site now set to harbour a dense urban forest<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-unhoused-homeless-encampment-kensington-market-toronto\/\" target=\"_blank\">City clears homeless encampment in Toronto\u2019s Kensington Market, citing fire hazard<\/a> (The Globe and Mail)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/real-estate\/toronto-and-hamilton-area-condo-cancellations-have-hit-a-record-high-heres-how-many-have\/article_ad710aa8-8cc6-449b-ad7c-63bed1f5dbf4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto and Hamilton-area condo cancellations have hit a record high. Here\u2019s how many have been cancelled this year<\/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\/10\/news-roundup-october-17-2025.59634\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] CMHC reports annual pace of housing starts up in September; speed cameras &#8216;best tool for protecting our kids,&#8217; says &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for October 17, 2025\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-october-17-2025\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for October 17, 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-32831","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\/32831","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=32831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}