Toronto is singled out as poster child of much needed infrastructure spending and Ontario's Transportation Minister says 5 per cent of GDP would be a good start. ...
Category: Municipalities, Transit and Infrastructure
Ford puts new global car in Oakville plant in a new sign of the times
Ontario's auto sector gets a shot in the arm as Ford Canada announces a plan to build a new Edge vehicle at its Oakville plant and export the popular model around the world. ...

Murray says Ottawa is ‘freeloading’ on Ontario’s infrastructure spending
Ontario Transportation Minister Glen Murray says the federal government needs to get back into the infrastructure spending game in a big way. ...
Candidate Wynne supported Gardiner teardown, Premier Wynne says it’s TO’s business
In January 2013, then-candidate for the Liberal leadership Kathleen Wynne said she preferred the Gardiner Expressway be torn down, but her office says Thursday it's a city matter. ...

We need to make transportation infrastructure matter outside of GTA: Wynne
Premier Wynne tells regional business and community leaders transit will only be built if it's seen to benefit all of Ontario, not just the Greater Toronto Area. ...
Leger poll finds 61 per cent support for Scarborough LRT plan
New poll shows broad popular support across Toronto for the light rail plan that the Liberals and Toronto City Council abandoned last summer. ...
Communities at the end of GO rail network planning for all-day service, if it ever arrives
Cities like Kitchener and Barrie say all-day GO rail service would pay dividends, but they will have to wait until after the next phase of the Big Move is funded. ...

Soknacki hopes province will be ‘amenable’ if he wins TO mayoral race
The first formally registered challenger to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he can work something out with Queen's Park and Ottawa to change the Scarborough subway, again. ...
Horwath hedges on support for a spring budget
NDP Leader, noting a slow response to cutting car insurance premiums, gives her party rhetorical room to say no to the budget, a move that would doom the Liberal government to a spring election. ...
War of words intensifies over ice storm response
The government, in particular Premier Kathleen Wynne's office, spent another day responding to opposition accusations of emergency mismanagement. ...