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Coquitlam, BC
Coquitlam asked residents how the city should spend money on services like drinking water, garbage collection, roads, and parks. The consultation is now closed. On December 2, 2024, Council approved the 2025-2029 Five Year Financial Plan based on...
Why This Matters: Live in Coquitlam? This budget affects your property taxes and the services you use daily. Drinking water, garbage pickup, road repairs, parks—it all comes from this plan. Rising costs are squeezing the city too, so trade-offs had to be made.
Budget
Finance & Consumer
Housing & Communities
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Burnaby, BC
Burnaby has adopted its new Official Community Plan after three years of public input. The plan guides where housing, businesses, and parks can be built over the next 25 years. It doesn't change current zoning—your single-family home stays legal—but...
Why This Matters: Live in Burnaby? This plan shapes what your neighbourhood could look like in 2050. Thinking of selling your property someday? The new land use map might affect its future value. Worried about housing costs? The plan prioritizes affordable housing choices. Concerned about climate change? It guides...
Community Planning
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
Transportation
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Winnipeg, MB
Winnipeg spent nearly five years developing a master plan for its transportation system. The goal? Get half of all trips made by walking, cycling, transit, or ridesharing by 2050. Council adopted the plan in June 2025. Now the city is working on...
Why This Matters: Live in Winnipeg? This plan shapes how you'll get around for the next 25 years. Commute by car? The city wants to make transit and cycling more attractive alternatives. Walk or bike? Expect safer routes and better infrastructure. The plan also aims to cut serious traffic injuries by 20%.
Community Planning
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
Transportation
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Ministry of Municipal Affairs (AB)
Alberta asked residents about protections for people buying newly built homes. The province wanted to know if current warranty requirements and builder licensing rules are working. This engagement ran from November to December 2022 and is now...
Why This Matters: Buying a new home is one of the biggest purchases you'll ever make. If something goes wrong—foundation cracks, leaky windows, faulty wiring—you need warranty protection that actually works. This review looked at whether Alberta's rules are doing enough to protect buyers from shoddy construction.
Policy & Studies
Finance & Consumer
Housing & Communities
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Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (Federal)
The Town of Sussex, New Brunswick wants to build a permanent flood control system. The plan includes two diversion channels that would redirect water from Trout Creek and Parsons Brook around the town during floods. It also involves a two-metre...
Why This Matters: Live in Sussex or nearby? Flooding has been a recurring problem. This project could protect homes and businesses from future flood damage. But diverting water affects ecosystems and could shift flood risks elsewhere. If you've dealt with flooding here, your experience matters.
Environmental Assessment
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
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Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (ON)
Ontario wants to replace its current environmental assessment process for municipal projects with a simpler, faster system. The new rules would focus only on drinking water, wastewater, and shoreline projects. Other municipal infrastructure could...
Why This Matters: Live in a growing Ontario community? This affects how fast new water systems, sewage plants, and waterfront projects get built near you. Fewer environmental reviews could mean faster construction—but also less scrutiny of impacts on local lakes, rivers, and drinking water sources.
Regulations & Permits
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
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Waterloo Region, ON
Kitchener wants to make it easier to build affordable housing. The city is proposing grants to help homeowners add rental units and to encourage developers to include affordable units in their projects. One program would cover up to 100% of...
Why This Matters: Struggling to find affordable rent in Kitchener? This plan could mean more rental units in your neighbourhood. Homeowners could get grants to build basement apartments or backyard units. If you're a renter watching costs climb, more supply could help stabilize prices.
Community Planning
Finance & Consumer
Housing & Communities
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London, ON
London has approved a 25-year plan for how people will get around the city. The Mobility Master Plan covers roads, bus routes, bike lanes, and sidewalks through 2050. It's the city's first fully integrated transportation plan. The consultation is...
Why This Matters: Live in London? This plan shapes your commute for the next 25 years. It decides where new bike lanes go, which roads get widened, and how bus routes change. If you've ever been stuck in traffic on Wonderland Road or wished for better transit options, this is the blueprint.
Community Planning
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
Transportation
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Calgary, AB
Calgary is updating its Accessibility Policy and creating a new Accessibility Plan. The goal? Remove barriers in city spaces, services, and programs for people with disabilities. This includes sidewalks, transit, parks, recreation centres, and how...
Why This Matters: Use a wheelchair? Have a visual impairment? Care for someone with a disability? This shapes how you'll navigate Calgary's sidewalks, transit, parks, and city services for years to come. Even if you don't have a disability now, most of us will experience one at some point in our lives.
Policy & Studies
Housing & Communities
Justice & Rights
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Kelowna, BC
Kelowna has developed its first comprehensive water plan covering how the city uses, protects, and shares water. The plan was adopted in April 2025 and includes 40 actions across short, medium, and long-term timelines. The Okanagan has one of...
Why This Matters: Live in Kelowna? Your water comes from Okanagan Lake, which doesn't always refill enough in dry years. The region uses more water per person than almost anywhere else in Canada. This plan affects everything from your water bills to whether you can water your lawn during summer droughts.
Community Planning
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
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Coquitlam, BC
Coquitlam has adopted its Climate Action Plan with 45 actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The plan covers five areas: transportation, buildings, consumption, environmental stewardship, and city leadership. While it maps a path to 2050, the...
Why This Matters: Live in Coquitlam? This plan shapes how you'll get around, heat your home, and handle extreme weather for the next decade. It could mean more bike lanes, stricter building codes, and new programs to help you cut energy costs.
Community Planning
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
Transportation
Closed
Coquitlam, BC
The City of Coquitlam has finished gathering public input for its 2026-2030 financial plan. The survey is now closed, but you can still watch Council budget meetings on October 29-30, 2025 and review the draft financial plan. The city is trying to...
Why This Matters: Live in Coquitlam? This budget decides what you pay in property taxes and utility fees next year. It also determines which city services get funded—parks, roads, recreation programs. With costs rising, the city is weighing service cuts against tax increases.
Budget
Finance & Consumer
Housing & Communities
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Oshawa, ON
The City of Oshawa adopted its 2026 budget after gathering community input. The operating budget is $207.8 million with $44.5 million for capital projects. Property taxes will increase 1.97% for the city portion—about $0.29 per day for an average...
Why This Matters: Live in Oshawa? Your property taxes are going up. The city portion rises 1.97%, but the Region of Durham is adding 6.5% on top. That's real money when groceries and housing costs are already squeezing budgets. The budget also decides which roads get fixed, how many library hours you get, and...
Budget
Finance & Consumer
Housing & Communities
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Waterloo Region, ON
Cambridge is rewriting its zoning rules to make it easier to build different types of housing. Right now, the city has 16 different residential zones with strict rules about what can be built where. The new approach would simplify this to just 4...
Why This Matters: Looking for a place to rent or buy in Cambridge? This could mean more options in your price range. Homeowners might see new townhouses or small apartments built nearby. The city's current rules date back to 1987 and make it hard to build anything other than single-family homes in most areas.
Community Planning
Housing & Communities
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Calgary, AB
Calgary and the University of Calgary spent two years studying the city's short-term rental market. The result? New rules taking effect April 1, 2025. Council approved changes in December 2024 that aim to balance housing affordability, safety, and...
Why This Matters: Rent an Airbnb when you travel? Host guests in your spare room? Live next door to a party house? This affects you. About 12% of Calgary hosts run multiple rentals and earn over half the market's revenue. New rules could change who can operate and how.
Regulations & Permits
Economy & Jobs
Housing & Communities
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Surrey, BC
Surrey is designing a new 4.7-acre park at 144 Street & 62 Avenue in South Newton. Right now it's just undeveloped green space connecting two schools. The City wants to hear what neighbours need—play areas, nature spots, places to relax.
Why This Matters: Live in South Newton? This park will be in your neighbourhood. Got kids at Woodward Hill Elementary or Sullivan Heights Secondary? They already walk through this space. Now's your chance to shape what it becomes.
Community Planning
Housing & Communities