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The Government of Ontario first asserted its role in municipal land use planning through enactment of the City and Suburban Plan Act in 1912. [2] In the Post-World War II period, considerable urban and suburban growth pressures demanded increased provincial intervention in municipal planning through official plan and zoning by-law requirements, and specialized administrative bodies.
For example in 1985, it was renamed Ministry of Industry, Trade and Technology to reflect the growing importance of technology in Ontario's economy. Since 1993, the department was mostly named the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade or some similar variations, except between 2002 and 2003 when it was briefly named Ministry of Enterprise ...
The Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project was a pilot project to provide basic income to 4,000 people in Ontario, Canada.The project followed recommendations made by Hugh Segal in consultation with the population, and would test whether "Basic Income [would] reduce poverty more effectively, encourage work, reduce stigmatization, and produce better health outcomes and better life chances for ...
The economic growth of 1999 won the city's economic development department three provincial awards from the Economic Developers Council of Ontario. [45] The border between Richmond Hill and Markham is a rapidly growing area for information technology and high-tech industry with over 1,000 such businesses located along their border in 2000. [46]
Ontario's Ministry of Finance identified five significant pressures currently faced by the postsecondary sector in Ontario: educating a growing share of the population; helping equalize economic and social outcomes across the population; providing an important component of lifelong learning; functioning as an engine of innovation; and ...
St. Marys is a town in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It is located at the confluence of the north branch of the Thames River and Trout Creek southwest of Stratford, and is surrounded by the Township of Perth South in Perth County, Ontario. St. Marys operates under its own municipal government that is independent from the county's government.
The Art Deco façade of the former Toronto Stock Exchange building. The Toronto Stock Exchange is the largest in Canada.. As the country’s commercial and financial hub and one of the largest financial centres in the world as per the British Global Financial Centres Index, Toronto hosts the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), the third largest stock exchange in the Americas by market capitalization ...
The S.O.S. Montfort movement continued to grow, launching a petition calling for the hospital to not only remain open but to have its mandate strengthened. The petition gathered over 130 000 signatures before being presented to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in early June 1997. Later that month, the leaders of SOS Montfort and the hospital ...