{"id":33880,"date":"2026-01-12T01:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-january-8-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T01:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:32:23","slug":"news-roundup-for-january-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-january-8-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for January 8, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">There&#8217;s still time to vote for the Toronto Region&#8217;s best new architecture! Cast your vote in our <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" roboto=\"\" light=\"\" verdana=\"\" helvetica=\"\" arial=\"\" sans-serif=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/ZJRNDVF\" target=\"_blank\">Year-End Reader&#8217;s Poll<\/a>, brought to you by our friends at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" roboto=\"\" light=\"\" verdana=\"\" helvetica=\"\" arial=\"\" sans-serif=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/diversoenergy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diverso Energy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">Toronto studying possible 7-km trail under the Gardiner Expressway; 2.2 per cent property tax increase proposed for residents in 2026; Toronto transit budget approved with fare freeze, $1.5B ask of city hall; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/under-gardiner-trail-study-underway-9.7036858\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto studying possible 7-km trail under the Gardiner Expressway<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2026\/01\/07\/2-2-per-cent-property-tax-increase-proposed-for-toronto-residents-in-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\">2.2 per cent property tax increase proposed for Toronto residents in 2026<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11602998\/ttc-budget-approved-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto transit budget approved with fare freeze, $1.5B ask of city hall<\/a> (Global News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/mayor-olivia-chow-to-unveil-2026-toronto-budget-today\/article_c1aff416-4280-4ca4-bd45-6033a9fdbb68.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Olivia Chow to unveil 2026 Toronto budget today<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/canada\/article\/rock-bottom-sales-in-canadas-housing-market-make-2025-one-for-the-history-books-expert\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rock bottom sales in Canada\u2019s housing market make 2025 \u2018one for the history books\u2019: expert<\/a> (CTV News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/real-estate\/torontos-office-space-is-in-demand-again-as-downtown-workers-are-forced-back\/article_6332bd3e-b629-49e2-ae78-b77e9d80cfa6.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto\u2019s office space is in demand again as downtown workers are forced back<\/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\/2026\/01\/news-roundup-january-8-2026.60142\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] There&#8217;s still time to vote for the Toronto Region&#8217;s best new architecture! Cast your vote in our Year-End Reader&#8217;s &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for January 8, 2026\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-january-8-2026\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for January 8, 2026\">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-33880","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\/33880","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=33880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}