{"id":35586,"date":"2026-05-29T07:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-may-29-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:11:14","slug":"news-roundup-for-may-29-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-may-29-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for May 29, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">Housing starts held back by regulatory conditions, structural factors, says CMHC; Sneaky Dee&#8217;s management optimistic bar will live on despite renewed development plans; Toronto subway station barriers aren&#8217;t enough to keep riders safe, says transit group; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/real-estate\/housing-starts-held-back-by-regulatory-conditions-structural-factors-cmhc\/article_237f1142-b1c2-5d87-8ff2-beb7ea6f3a2d.html\" target=\"_blank\">Housing starts held back by regulatory conditions, structural factors: CMHC<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/sneaky-dee-s-closing-development-9.7215831\" target=\"_blank\">Sneaky Dee&#8217;s management optimistic bar will live on despite renewed development plans<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/local\/article\/toronto-subway-station-barriers-arent-enough-to-keep-riders-safe-transit-group\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto subway station barriers aren&#8217;t enough to keep riders safe: transit group<\/a> (CTV News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/toronto\/article-billy-bishop-airport-special-economic-zone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario to designate Billy Bishop airport a special economic zone, minister says<\/a> (The Globe and Mail)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/fifa-unsold-expensive-tickets-toronto-9.7215170\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup matches in Toronto still aren&#8217;t sold out. But fans are facing high costs<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2026\/05\/28\/paramount-fine-foods-centre-mississauga-naming-rights-payments\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount Fine Foods CEO says naming rights cheques given to Mississauga, City calls it \u2018insufficient\u2019<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/are-homeless-people-at-union-station-victims-of-a-world-cup-crackdown-heres-whats-going-on\/article_653d81ac-2db7-4dff-af41-e16403d88d11.html\" target=\"_blank\">Are homeless people at Union Station victims of a World Cup crackdown? Here\u2019s what\u2019s going on<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2026\/05\/28\/community-urges-city-hall-to-choose-sneaky-dees-over-condos\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Leave the damn building alone\u2019: Community urges City Hall to choose Sneaky Dee\u2019s over condos<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/video\/9.7215742\" target=\"_blank\">Why the future of Woodbine Centre is in question<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2026\/05\/28\/weekend-need-to-know-dvp-gardiner-closing-sunday-for-bike-for-brain-health\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weekend need-to-know: DVP, Gardiner closing Sunday for Bike for Brain Health<\/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\/2026\/05\/news-roundup-may-29-2026.61081\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Housing starts held back by regulatory conditions, structural factors, says CMHC; Sneaky Dee&#8217;s management optimistic bar will live on &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for May 29, 2026\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-may-29-2026\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for May 29, 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-35586","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\/35586","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=35586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}