{"id":35492,"date":"2026-05-21T06:54:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-may-21-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T06:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:54:31","slug":"news-roundup-for-may-21-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-may-21-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for May 21, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">26 affordable housing projects set to lose city benefits due to delayed or stalled construction; Billy Bishop Airport expansion could cost $4-billion to $5-billion, port authority CEO says; a look at how FIFA\u2019s contracts with Toronto and Vancouver split the World Cup\u2019s risks and rewards; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/26-affordable-housing-projects-set-to-lose-city-benefits-due-to-delayed-or-stalled-construction\/article_98823602-f629-47a3-8663-4754a0e50fc7.html\" target=\"_blank\">26 affordable housing projects set to lose city benefits due to delayed or stalled construction<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-billy-bishop-airport-expansion-port-authority-ceo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Bishop Airport expansion could cost $4-billion to $5-billion, port authority CEO says<\/a> (The Globe and Mail)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-fifa-world-cup-contracts-toronto-vancouver-host-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\">How FIFA\u2019s contracts with Toronto and Vancouver split the World Cup\u2019s risks and rewards<\/a> (The Globe and Mail)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/video\/2026\/05\/20\/fifa-world-cup-to-cost-canada-1b\/\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA World Cup to cost Canada $1B<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/toronto-noise-camera-9.7206231\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto could look at noise cameras to crack down on cars making excessive noise<\/a> (CBC)<\/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\/05\/news-roundup-may-21-2026.61034\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] 26 affordable housing projects set to lose city benefits due to delayed or stalled construction; Billy Bishop Airport expansion &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for May 21, 2026\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-may-21-2026\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for May 21, 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-35492","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\/35492","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=35492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}