{"id":34393,"date":"2026-02-22T02:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-february-20-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T02:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:55:15","slug":"news-roundup-for-february-20-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-february-20-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for February 20, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">Toronto wants to allow micro shelters \u2014 just not on city land; Canadian developer offering refund to homebuyers if the price of their house or condo drops; an iconic Kensington Market restaurant is preparing to say goodbye after 35 years; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/toronto-micro-shelters-pilot-program-9.7096336\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto wants to allow micro shelters \u2014 just not on city land<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/canadian-developer-offering-refund-to-homebuyers-if-the-price-of-their-house-or-condo-drops\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian developer offering refund to homebuyers if the price of their house or condo drops<\/a> (CTV News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/life\/food-and-drink\/an-iconic-kensington-market-restaurant-is-preparing-to-say-goodbye-after-35-years\/article_f8d60324-a4b2-4594-80bb-9a0419d9a19c.html\" target=\"_blank\">An iconic Kensington Market restaurant is preparing to say goodbye after 35 years<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2026\/02\/19\/weekend-need-to-know-celebrate-lunar-new-year-in-chinatown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weekend need-to-know: Celebrate Lunar New Year in Chinatown<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/doug-fords-government-said-traffic-officers-could-help-replace-banned-speed-cameras-three-months-later\/article_63beeaba-ec62-4676-8788-00ecf9734c68.html\" target=\"_blank\">Doug Ford\u2019s government said traffic officers could help replace banned speed cameras. Three months later, here\u2019s what Toronto police say<\/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\/02\/news-roundup-february-20-2026.60434\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Toronto wants to allow micro shelters \u2014 just not on city land; Canadian developer offering refund to homebuyers if &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for February 20, 2026\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-february-20-2026\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for February 20, 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-34393","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\/34393","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=34393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}