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Secretariat of the Table of Provincial and Territorial Ministers Responsible for Local Government (SMLG) / Secrétariat de la Table des ministres provinciaux et territoriaux responsables des administrations locales (SMAL)
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador has dismissed Victoria town council for dysfunction and appointed an administrator (source: CBC News) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Victoria town council — beset by infighting and dysfunction — is dismissed by minister | CBC News
In a rare use of the provincial government's powers, the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs has dismissed the entire town council in Victoria, and appointed a temporary administrator to ove...
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December 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador has dismissed Victoria town council for dysfunction and appointed an administrator (source: CBC News) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Municipalities of Saint-Bruno, Hébertville and Hébertville-Station will amalgamate to form the Municipalité d'Hébertville as of January 1, 2026 www.quebec.ca/nouvelles/ac...
Saint-Bruno, Hébertville et Hébertville-Station se regroupent et consolident leurs services
HÉBERTVILLE, QC, le 18 déc. 2025 /CNW/ - La ministre des Affaires municipales, Mme Geneviève Guilbault, est heureuse d'annoncer le regroupement des municipalités de Saint-Bruno et d'Hébertville avec c...
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December 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Municipalities of Saint-Bruno, Hébertville and Hébertville-Station will amalgamate to form the Municipalité d'Hébertville as of January 1, 2026 www.quebec.ca/nouvelles/ac...
Saint-Bruno, Hébertville et Hébertville-Station (Québec) se regroupent et consolident leurs services: La nouvelle entité portera le nom de « Municipalité d'Hébertville » www.quebec.ca/nouvelles/ac...
Saint-Bruno, Hébertville et Hébertville-Station se regroupent et consolident leurs services
HÉBERTVILLE, QC, le 18 déc. 2025 /CNW/ - La ministre des Affaires municipales, Mme Geneviève Guilbault, est heureuse d'annoncer le regroupement des municipalités de Saint-Bruno et d'Hébertville avec c...
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December 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Saint-Bruno, Hébertville et Hébertville-Station (Québec) se regroupent et consolident leurs services: La nouvelle entité portera le nom de « Municipalité d'Hébertville » www.quebec.ca/nouvelles/ac...
Government of Prince Edward Island launches Municipal Leaders Talk, which offers free and confidential counselling services to mayors, councillors and municipal CAOs www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/new-...
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December 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Government of Prince Edward Island launches Municipal Leaders Talk, which offers free and confidential counselling services to mayors, councillors and municipal CAOs www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/new-...
Strong Cities Network and the Association of Manitoba Municipalities (AMM) have released "A Toolkit for Manitoba Municipalities: Addressing Anti-Government Hate and Harassment" strongcitiesnetwork.org/resource/a-t...
A Toolkit for Manitoba Municipalities: Addressing Anti-Government Hate and Harassment - Strong Cities Network
Strong Cities has partnered with the Association of Manitoba Municipalities (AMM) and the Centre for Social Science Research and Policy at the University of Manitoba (CSSRP) to produce a Toolkit for l...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Strong Cities Network and the Association of Manitoba Municipalities (AMM) have released "A Toolkit for Manitoba Municipalities: Addressing Anti-Government Hate and Harassment" strongcitiesnetwork.org/resource/a-t...
Durham Region, Ont., named the 2025 Intelligent Community of the Year (source: Intelligent Community Forum (ICF)) www.intelligentcommunity.org/2025_intelli...
Durham Region, Ontario, Canada Named the 2025 Intelligent Community of the Year
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December 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Durham Region, Ont., named the 2025 Intelligent Community of the Year (source: Intelligent Community Forum (ICF)) www.intelligentcommunity.org/2025_intelli...
Transit violence rising across Canada — in some cities, by nearly 300% (source: CBC News) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Transit violence rising across Canada — in some cities, by nearly 300% | CBC News
A joint investigation by CBC News and the Investigative Journalism Foundation has found that transit violence in some of Canada's biggest municipalities remains well above pre-pandemic levels, despite...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Transit violence rising across Canada — in some cities, by nearly 300% (source: CBC News) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
L’Ontario lance le fonds pour les initiatives en matière de sécurité routière news.ontario.ca/fr/release/1...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
L’Ontario lance le fonds pour les initiatives en matière de sécurité routière news.ontario.ca/fr/release/1...
Government of Ontario launches Road Safety Initiatives Fund to fund traffic calming and speed enforcement measures in place of speed cameras
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Ontario Newsroom
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November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Government of Ontario launches Road Safety Initiatives Fund to fund traffic calming and speed enforcement measures in place of speed cameras
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Élections municipales 2025 - La proportion de femmes dans les conseils municipaux du Québec poursuit sa progression (source: Gouvernement du Québec) www.quebec.ca/nouvelles/ac...
Élections municipales 2025 - La proportion de femmes dans les conseils municipaux du Québec poursuit sa progression
QUÉBEC, le 6 nov. 2025 /CNW/ - À la suite des élections générales municipales du 2 novembre et de la compilation des résultats préliminaires, la ministre des Affaires municipales, Mme Geneviève Guilba...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Élections municipales 2025 - La proportion de femmes dans les conseils municipaux du Québec poursuit sa progression (source: Gouvernement du Québec) www.quebec.ca/nouvelles/ac...
Alberta municipal affairs minister says civic party system will continue in Calgary, Edmonton but not expanded to other municipalities (source: CBC News) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Civic parties will continue in Calgary, Edmonton: minister | CBC News
Alberta’s Minister of Municipal Affairs Dan Williams said he wants civic political parties to remain legal in future elections in Calgary and Edmonton. But he has no intention of expanding the system ...
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October 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Alberta municipal affairs minister says civic party system will continue in Calgary, Edmonton but not expanded to other municipalities (source: CBC News) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Village of Sayward, B.C., taking legal action to get the ability to sue its own councillors: Village wants to reduce quorum from 3 councillors to 2; rest of council already in legal disputes (source: CBC News) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Village of Sayward taking legal action to get the ability to sue its own councillors | CBC News
The Village of Sayward filed a legal petition with the B.C. Supreme Court on Oct. 14, asking them to reduce quorum — the minimum number of people required for a council meeting to make a decision — fr...
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October 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Village of Sayward, B.C., taking legal action to get the ability to sue its own councillors: Village wants to reduce quorum from 3 councillors to 2; rest of council already in legal disputes (source: CBC News) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Village of Sayward, B.C., embroiled in confidentiality lawsuits
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Village of Sayward, B.C., embroiled in confidentiality lawsuits
The Village of Sayward on Vancouver Island is taking legal action in order to get the ability to potentially sue two of its own councillors. It's the latest salvo in a long-running dispute that has pa...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Village of Sayward, B.C., embroiled in confidentiality lawsuits
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Ranking Canadian urban areas by their potential direct exposure of U.S. tariffs (source: University of Toronto, School of Cities) schoolofcities.github.io/tariffs/cma-...
Mapping tariffs
Examining potential local impacts on jobs and businesses across Canada via maps and charts
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October 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Ranking Canadian urban areas by their potential direct exposure of U.S. tariffs (source: University of Toronto, School of Cities) schoolofcities.github.io/tariffs/cma-...
Ranking Canadian urban areas by their potential direct exposure of U.S. tariffs
(source: University of Toronto, School of Cities) schoolofcities.github.io/tariffs/cma-...
(source: University of Toronto, School of Cities) schoolofcities.github.io/tariffs/cma-...
Mapping tariffs
Examining potential local impacts on jobs and businesses across Canada via maps and charts
schoolofcities.github.io
October 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Ranking Canadian urban areas by their potential direct exposure of U.S. tariffs
(source: University of Toronto, School of Cities) schoolofcities.github.io/tariffs/cma-...
(source: University of Toronto, School of Cities) schoolofcities.github.io/tariffs/cma-...
Government of Nova Scotia brings in Halifax development changes it originally told city to pass (source: CBC News) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
N.S. brings in Halifax development changes it originally told city to pass | CBC News
The Nova Scotia government has brought in sweeping development changes for Halifax, but opposition parties say the move takes away Halifax Regional Municipality's power to make its own planning decisi...
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October 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Government of Nova Scotia brings in Halifax development changes it originally told city to pass (source: CBC News) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Conference paper concludes that security flaws left 2022 online municipal elections in Ontario highly exposed to attack (source: CBC News) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
How the PINs Ontario voters threw away in 2022's municipal elections opened online voting to fraud | CBC News
A new study suggests the integrity of online voting in the 2022 Ontario municipal elections could have been undercut by two fundamental security flaws that would have left 70 percent of municipal elec...
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October 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Conference paper concludes that security flaws left 2022 online municipal elections in Ontario highly exposed to attack (source: CBC News) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Winners of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities' 2025 Community Excellence Awards
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Winners of the 2025 Community Excellence Awards
UBCM is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Community Excellence Awards. These recipients stood out for going above and beyond the purposes of local government in BC. They are innovative, prov...
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September 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Winners of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities' 2025 Community Excellence Awards
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Canada’s mayors, councillors want fast-tracking of projects that fight climate change (source: Canadian Press) www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Canada’s mayors, councillors want fast-tracking of projects that fight climate change
MONTREAL - More than 250 elected officials across Canada have signed onto a campaign calling on the federal government to prioritize major infrastructure projects that help in the fight against
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September 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Canada’s mayors, councillors want fast-tracking of projects that fight climate change (source: Canadian Press) www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Strong mayor powers used in Windsor, Toronto most often compared to other big Ontario cities (source: CBC News) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Strong mayor powers used in Windsor, Toronto more often than in other big Ontario cities | CBC News
The controversial strong mayor powers put in place by the Ford government three years ago are being used in Windsor and Toronto more often than in any other big city in Ontario.
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September 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Strong mayor powers used in Windsor, Toronto most often compared to other big Ontario cities (source: CBC News) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Municipalities could soon have a say on ATV rules: Government of Prince Edward Island accepting feedback on proposed changes to Off-Highway Vehicle Act (source: CBC News)
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Municipalities could soon have a say on ATV rules | CBC News
The province is looking at making changes to the Off-Highway Vehicle Act that would allow municipalities to set their own rules on where all-terrain vehicles, or ATVs, can operate.
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September 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Municipalities could soon have a say on ATV rules: Government of Prince Edward Island accepting feedback on proposed changes to Off-Highway Vehicle Act (source: CBC News)
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Town of White City and Rural Municipality of Edenwold in Saskatchewan conned out of nearly $700K through 'sophisticated fraud scheme' www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Sask. town and rural municipality conned out of nearly $700K through 'sophisticated fraud scheme' | CBC News
The town of White City and the rural municipality of Edenwold, located just outside Regina, say they were targeted by a ‘sophisticated fraud scheme’ losing $200,000 and $497,000 respectively, accordin...
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September 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Town of White City and Rural Municipality of Edenwold in Saskatchewan conned out of nearly $700K through 'sophisticated fraud scheme' www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Government of British Columbia says it will strengthen oversight of municipal governments by exploring implementation of mandatory codes of conduct for local governments and strengthening enforcement vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
B.C. says it will strengthen oversight of municipal governments
The B.C. government says it will explore implementing mandatory codes of conduct for local governments and strengthening enforcement.
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August 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Government of British Columbia says it will strengthen oversight of municipal governments by exploring implementation of mandatory codes of conduct for local governments and strengthening enforcement vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
Ville de La Pocatière, Municipalité de la paroisse de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière et de la Municipalité de Saint-Onésime-d'Ixworth in Québec will amalgamate to form the Ville de la Pocatière on Sept. 3, 2025 www.quebec.ca/nouvelles/ac...
La Pocatière, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière et Saint-Onésime-d'Ixworth formeront la nouvelle Ville de La Pocatière dès le 3 septembre 2025
LA POCATIÈRE, QC, le 21 août 2025 /CNW/ - La ministre des Affaires municipales, Mme Andrée Laforest, annonce le regroupement de la Ville de La Pocatière, de la Municipalité de la paroisse de Sainte-An...
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August 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Ville de La Pocatière, Municipalité de la paroisse de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière et de la Municipalité de Saint-Onésime-d'Ixworth in Québec will amalgamate to form the Ville de la Pocatière on Sept. 3, 2025 www.quebec.ca/nouvelles/ac...
La Pocatière, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière et Saint-Onésime-d'Ixworth formeront la nouvelle Ville de La Pocatière dès le 3 septembre 2025 www.quebec.ca/nouvelles/ac...
La Pocatière, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière et Saint-Onésime-d'Ixworth formeront la nouvelle Ville de La Pocatière dès le 3 septembre 2025
LA POCATIÈRE, QC, le 21 août 2025 /CNW/ - La ministre des Affaires municipales, Mme Andrée Laforest, annonce le regroupement de la Ville de La Pocatière, de la Municipalité de la paroisse de Sainte-An...
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August 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
La Pocatière, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière et Saint-Onésime-d'Ixworth formeront la nouvelle Ville de La Pocatière dès le 3 septembre 2025 www.quebec.ca/nouvelles/ac...