{"id":32947,"date":"2025-10-26T11:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-october-24-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T11:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:51:17","slug":"news-roundup-for-october-24-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-october-24-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for October 24, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">Ontario appears to back away from goal of building 1.5 million homes in 10 years; Province hands Finch West LRT to TTC as final testing wraps, opening date to come; Ontario bill would look at \u2018alternative options\u2019 for ending residential leases, scrap Toronto green roof by-law; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/ontario-noncommittal-1-5-million-homes-10-years-9.6950869\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario appears to back away from goal of building 1.5 million homes in 10 years<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11491304\/finch-west-lrt-opening-date\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario hands Finch West LRT to TTC as final testing wraps, opening date to come<\/a> (Global News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/ontario-bill-would-look-at-alternative-options-for-ending-residential-leases-scrap-toronto-green-roof-bylaw-here-are-the-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario bill would look at \u2018alternative options\u2019 for ending residential leases, scrap Toronto green roof bylaw. Here are the highlights<\/a> (CTV News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/real-estate\/garden-suite-rules-divided-neighbours-on-this-tiny-east-toronto-street-city-halls-fix-didnt\/article_97383c7a-4a4f-4b2a-90cc-ae2d5cc681c2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Garden suite rules divided neighbours on this tiny east Toronto street. City hall\u2019s fix didn\u2019t end the battle<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/video\/2025\/10\/23\/ttc-and-metrolinx-ramp-up-service-as-toronto-gears-up-for-jays-world-series-run\/\" target=\"_blank\">TTC and Metrolinx ramp up service as Toronto gears up for Jays&#8217; World Series run<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/the-city-dropped-concrete-blocks-fencing-at-the-site-of-a-kensington-encampment-the-nearby\/article_fba87032-7eab-4724-b46a-80639f54c051.html\" target=\"_blank\">The city dropped concrete blocks, fencing at the site of a Kensington encampment. The nearby church wants them gone<\/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-24-2025.59669\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Ontario appears to back away from goal of building 1.5 million homes in 10 years; Province hands Finch West &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for October 24, 2025\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-october-24-2025\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for October 24, 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-32947","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\/32947","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=32947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}