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Waterloo Region, ON
Cambridge wants to build a 3-kilometre multi-use trail along Dunbar Road, connecting Hespeler Road to Conestoga Boulevard. This is the final phase of a larger trail network. The design will narrow parts of the road and add new pedestrian crossings...
Why This Matters: Live or work along Dunbar Road? This trail could change your commute. Cyclists and pedestrians get a safer route. Drivers may see narrower lanes and new crosswalks. If you're near International Village Drive, a new pedestrian crossing could affect traffic flow.
Community Planning
Housing & Communities
Transportation
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Mississauga, ON
Mississauga wants to know what residents think about fireworks rules. Right now, you can set off consumer fireworks on your own property during five holidays: Lunar New Year, Victoria Day, Canada Day, Diwali, and New Year's Eve. The city is...
Why This Matters: Love fireworks on Canada Day? Hate the noise keeping your kids or pets awake? This affects your neighbourhood directly. The rules determine when your neighbours can legally set off fireworks—and when they can't.
Regulations & Permits
Health & Safety
Housing & Communities
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Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (ON)
A developer wants to build residential, commercial, and community space on a contaminated property in Kitchener. The Ministry of Environment has reviewed a risk assessment and is now considering issuing a Certificate of Property Use. This...
Why This Matters: Planning to live, work, or shop near Margaret Avenue in Kitchener? This property has contamination that needs ongoing management. The certificate sets rules for how the land can be used safely. If you're a neighbour or future resident, you may want to know what safeguards are in place.
Regulations & Permits
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
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Waterloo Region, ON
Waterloo Region has opened a 50-cabin outdoor shelter at 1001 Erb's Road to house people experiencing homelessness. The site is staffed around the clock and run by The Working Centre, a local nonprofit. Each cabin has electricity, heating, and...
Why This Matters: Live near Erb's Road? This shelter is already operating in your neighbourhood. Concerned about homelessness in your community? This is part of the Region's plan to address the crisis. Public tours are available if you want to see the site firsthand.
Community Planning
Health & Safety
Housing & Communities
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Waterloo Region, ON
Wilmot Township is writing a new Official Plan to guide how the community grows and develops over the next 25+ years. This plan will decide where homes, businesses, and farms can go. It affects everything from housing availability to protecting...
Why This Matters: Live in Wilmot or thinking of moving there? This plan shapes where new homes get built and what your neighbourhood looks like in 2051. It decides if farmland stays farmland or becomes subdivisions. If you care about housing costs, traffic, or preserving rural character, this is your chance to weigh...
Community Planning
Housing & Communities
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Waterloo Region, ON
The City of Waterloo is developing 33 acres of city-owned land on University Avenue East. The plan includes 100 affordable housing units, commercial space, trails, and community amenities. Urban Legend Developments has been selected to build the...
Why This Matters: Looking for affordable housing in Waterloo? This project adds 100 new affordable units to the market. Live nearby? You'll see new trails, shops, and community spaces. The city is also protecting woodland and wetland areas on the site.
Community Planning
Housing & Communities
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Saskatoon, SK
A developer wants to rezone an empty lot at Broadway Avenue and Ruth Street in Saskatoon. Right now it's zoned for low-density housing. The proposal would allow a 25-unit affordable housing building instead. This is part of the City's plan to build...
Why This Matters: Looking for affordable housing in Saskatoon? This project could add 25 units to the market. Live near Broadway and Ruth? The building would change the look and feel of your neighbourhood. This is one of several city-owned sites being developed for affordable housing.
Community Planning
Housing & Communities
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Calgary, AB
Calgary is planning new pathways and bikeways connecting several east Calgary communities including Marlborough Park, Dover, Forest Heights, and Erin Woods. The project has completed two phases of public input and a third phase opens in February...
Why This Matters: Live in east Calgary? Bike to work or school? This project could add safer routes through your neighbourhood. New pathways mean easier connections between communities—whether you're commuting, exercising, or just getting around without a car.
Community Planning
Housing & Communities
Transportation
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Health Canada (Federal)
Open until February 21, 2026
Health Canada wants to allow rosemary extract as a preservative in snack foods, cookies, crackers, nuts, and pasta. It's already approved in the US, EU, and Australia. The extract prevents fats from going rancid—think chips staying fresh longer.
Why This Matters: Eat chips, cookies, or peanut butter? This affects what's in them. Rosemary extract is a natural alternative to synthetic preservatives. If you care about food ingredients or have allergies, you might want to weigh in.
Regulations & Permits
Agriculture & Food
Health & Safety
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Waterloo Region, ON
The City of Waterloo wants your ideas on how to protect and grow its urban tree canopy as the city develops. They're creating a management strategy that will guide tree preservation and planting through 2050. You can share ideas, take a poll, or...
Why This Matters: Live in Waterloo? Trees on your street keep your home cooler in summer and boost property values. As the city grows, development pressure threatens existing trees. This strategy will decide which trees get protected and where new ones get planted.
Community Planning
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
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Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (ON)
Virox Technologies makes hydrogen peroxide-based cleaning and disinfection products at their Oakville facility. They need to renew their air emissions permit, which controls what they can release into the atmosphere. The permit covers exhaust from...
Why This Matters: Live or work near Coventry Road in Oakville? This permit controls what this factory can release into the air you breathe. Hydrogen peroxide emissions are regulated to protect local air quality.
Regulations & Permits
Environment & Climate
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Calgary, AB
Calgary is creating a policy to help businesses survive when City construction projects disrupt their streets. Think blocked sidewalks, lost parking, and customers who can't find the front door. The City has tested things like temporary parking...
Why This Matters: Own a shop on a street that's being torn up? You know the pain. Construction can tank sales for months. This policy could mean the difference between staying open and closing up. Even as a customer, you've probably given up on a business because the sidewalk was blocked or parking vanished.
Policy & Studies
Economy & Jobs
Housing & Communities
Transportation
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London, ON
Residents in Central North London have complained about speeding, cut-through traffic, and unsafe conditions for pedestrians and cyclists. The City hired a traffic consultant to study the area and recommend solutions like speed bumps, curb...
Why This Matters: Live in Central North London? Walk your kids to school? Bike to work? This study could change how traffic moves through your neighbourhood. Speed bumps and curb extensions might slow things down—or they might just push traffic onto your street instead.
Community Planning
Housing & Communities
Transportation
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Waterloo Region, ON
Doon Heritage Village, a 60-acre living history museum in Waterloo Region, is getting a major update. The museum has recreated life in 1914 rural Ontario since the late 1980s, but now they're asking: whose stories are missing? The Region wants input...
Why This Matters: Ever visited a museum and thought 'where's my family's story?' This is your chance to change that. The Region wants to hear from people whose cultures and traditions aren't yet represented at this historic site. If you've got memories of Doon Village from the past 60 years, they want those too.
Community Planning
Education
Housing & Communities
Indigenous & Northern
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Coquitlam, BC
Coquitlam wants to add a two-way protected lane for bikes and scooters along Pipeline Road, from Guildford Way to Lincoln Avenue. The trade-off? Street parking would be removed to make room. The new lane would connect to Glen Elementary School, Glen...
Why This Matters: Live near Pipeline Road? Your street parking could disappear. But if you bike, scoot, or have kids at Glen Elementary, getting around safely gets easier. The city wants 50% of trips made by walking, biking, or transit by 2050—this is part of that push.
Community Planning
Housing & Communities
Transportation
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Waterloo Region, ON
Kitchener is creating a stewardship plan for Huron Natural Area, a 250-acre protected forest and wetland. The city wants your input on how to protect the environment, support Indigenous placemaking, and meet community needs for recreation and...
Why This Matters: Live in Kitchener? This is one of the city's largest green spaces. Whether you walk your dog here, bring your kids to explore nature, or just want wild spaces preserved, this plan will shape how the area is managed for decades. Indigenous communities have a special connection to this land too.
Community Planning
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
Indigenous & Northern