{"id":33520,"date":"2025-12-07T00:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-december-5-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T00:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:17:24","slug":"news-roundup-for-december-5-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-december-5-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for December 5, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">Toronto\u2019s housing development charges are among the highest in Canada, CMHC says, but City disputes the findings; a look at how Toronto could build more than 20 km of new bike lanes \u2014 despite provincial restrictions; TTC maintenance, asbestos cleanup delaying parts of Rogers\u2019 5G subway network build; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/real-estate\/torontos-housing-development-charges-are-among-the-highest-in-canada-cmhc-says-the-city-disputes\/article_2dd63d21-7226-4533-817a-7eb36d4d3602.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto\u2019s housing development charges are among the highest in Canada, CMHC says. The city disputes the findings<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/bike-lanes-proposed-kingston-9.6998991\" target=\"_blank\">How Toronto could build more than 20 km of new bike lanes \u2014 despite provincial restrictions<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/12\/05\/ttc-maintenance-asbestos-cleanup-delaying-parts-of-rogers-5g-subway-network-build\/\" target=\"_blank\">TTC maintenance, asbestos cleanup delaying parts of Rogers\u2019 5G subway network build<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11558396\/toronto-luxury-home-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto mayor weighs raising tax on home sales over $3M as budget season begins<\/a> (Global News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/ttc-subway-tunnel-ads-proposal-9.7003798\" target=\"_blank\">TTC considering flip-book style advertising on subway tunnel walls<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/toronto-will-find-out-which-world-cup-teams-it-ll-host-today-for-fans-excitement\/article_1d3a2564-af94-4005-90fe-37dc257cefb6.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto will find out which World Cup teams it\u2019ll host today. For fans, excitement is building toward a \u2018perfect storm\u2019<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/real-estate\/toronto\/article-a-building-that-brings-the-little-ones-closer-to-nature\/\" target=\"_blank\">A building that brings the little ones closer to nature<\/a> (The Globe and Mail)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/12\/04\/weekend-need-to-know-holiday-markets-continue-across-the-city\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weekend need-to-know: Holiday markets continue 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\/12\/news-roundup-december-5-2025.59989\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Toronto\u2019s housing development charges are among the highest in Canada, CMHC says, but City disputes the findings; a look &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for December 5, 2025\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-december-5-2025\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for December 5, 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-33520","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\/33520","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=33520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}