With the help of CAMA (Canadian Association of Municipal Administrators), FCM is looking for assistance from municipalities to help inform their efforts on cannabis policy and advocacy once the federal government revisits the federal-municipal legalization agreement in Decemb...
OMERS (the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System) has a number of professional training sessions and materials, which provides OMERS employers the opportunity to learn more about their OMERS pension plan. Training opportunities include online e-Learning modules and fac...
Last week, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) called on every federal political party to commit to permanently doubling the value of the annual federal Gas Tax Fund (GTF) transfer. To build off the momentum of 2019’s federal budget one-time doubling of GTF, FCM...
Following the announcement at the end of January at the annual Rural Ontario Municipalities Association (ROMA) by Premier Doug Ford, the Ministry of the Attorney General for Ontario has opened up consultations on joint and several liability, insurance costs, and the affect ‘li...
Schedule 3 of the recently passed Bill 108, More Homes, More Choice Act, 2019 makes amendments to the Development Charges Act . The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing is proposing additional regulations to prescribe matters, which the government says will help red...
The recently passed Bill 108, More Homes, More Choice Act, 2019 , makes various amendments to a number of Acts, including Schedule 12 of the Planning Act . Additionally, the government is proposing several regulations to prescribe matters relating to the community benef...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford today announced he is reversing retroactive funding cuts to local governments. The reversal will include cuts to child care services , public health , and ambulance services . Since the release of this PC government’s first budget on April 11...
Since the release of the Ontario government’s budget on April 11 aiming to eliminate the $11.7 billion deficit over five years, cuts and changes to provincial funding for municipal governments have been steadily occurring. This currently includes public health , library s...
Premier Ford yesterday announced that his government is creating a fund of $7.35 million to pay large municipalities and district school boards to review their budgets and find four percent in savings. The reviews would be conducted by third-party auditors and funds would...
The Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) yesterday reported that the cost of shared ambulance grants are now frozen at 2018 levels. Based on the 2017 funding allocation, growth in service costs for 2019 means municipal taxpayers will be left making up the difference...