BREAKING:
#Mississauga
Mayor
@BonnieCrombie
will use her strong-mayor powers to override council's vote last week that ended with a motion supporting 4-plexes failing to pass. Wording of the override below. She tells me she has spoken with
@SeanFraserMP
.
NEW: In the fallout of
#Mississauga
council not passing a motion showing support for 4-plex homes, the city has been denied housing funding from the federal government, believed to be $120M. I hear this letter from
@SeanFraserMP
was sent to council around 5 p.m.
#Missipoli
NEW: In the fallout of
#Mississauga
council not passing a motion showing support for 4-plex homes, the city has been denied housing funding from the federal government, believed to be $120M. I hear this letter from
@SeanFraserMP
was sent to council around 5 p.m.
#Missipoli
NEW: Permission to build a 50-storey tower in
#Mississauga
issued as part of a Ford government MZO has been revoked after officials from
@TorontoPearson
raised concerns.
Updated story: "In my mind Bloor is not just a thoroughfare. It's not just a thoroughfare for cars."
Council approves major redesign of a local road to include bike lanes during tumultuous session.
#BikeMississauga
It's official:
#Mississauga
Mayor
@BonnieCrombie
is vying to lead the
#Ontario
Liberal Party, which could mean a major shake up in the city and province's leadership.
New from me: Peel's water workers anxious about potential privatization while the province pledges the region's water/wastewater will stay in public control.
I’m set up at
#Mississauga
council where a tearful Mayor Bonnie Crombie is announcing she’s resigning effective Jan. 12. Says this will be her last council meeting
Newly minted
#Mississauga
Ward 9 Coun. Martin Reid documenting the trials and tribulations of traveling from
#Mississauga
to
#Brampton
, roughly an hour and a half on public transit. Not sure I've heard of many other Missi councillors taking public transit.
First stop Meadowvale Town Centre! I am taking the
@citymississauga
bus to the
@regionofpeel
inaugural council meeting this morning. We gotta walk the walk if we are going to bring about change where our Ward 9, Mississauga & ROP residents need it.
#bettereveryday
#itskindacold
Tuned into
#Mississauga
council and
@Chris_Fonseca3
is blasting
@DipikaDamerla
for pledge to shutdown the Bloor Street Integrated project. Says making the reversal of a council decision a central part of her campaign and signing a petition against the project 'lacks integrity'
Meanwhile,
#COVID19
indicators could be on the rise for the first time since the peak of
#Omicron
wave at the start of 2022, according to a recent
#Peel
Health wastewater report.
NEW:
#Mississauga
appears to be having its own bike lanes on Bloor battle as a residents group argues that possible cycle track would violate their Charter rights.
#Missipoli
#bikemississauga
.
@carolynhparrish
has confirmed with me that her social media post 'respectfully declining all debates' includes tonight's
@MoreHomesSauga
event, slated to start in about 2.5 hours.
New: Most
#Mississauga
seniors have moved out after a Chartwell retirement home in the city issued eviction notices in March.
But some impacted families say they haven't moved on from their fight for more protections for elderly tenants.
This is a first. My story about a
#Mississauga
residents group claiming that a planned bike lane would violate their charter rights has made a list of 'bonkers stuff' on
@cracked
.
Growing crowd in the clerks office, including Stephen Dasko, Peter McCallion, Carolyn Parrish and Alvin Tedjo lined up to make their
#Mississauga
mayoral runs official.
SCOOP: The Ford Government is moving ahead on plans to extend the
@HMcCallionLine
into
#Mississauga
and
#Brampton
's downtowns, resurrecting transit plans that were quashed years ago.
Set up at the
#Mississauga
Council meeting this morn, which has a packed agenda. PS I’m still
@MissiNewsRoom
thanks for all who reached out with their concerns
#Mississauga
Mayor Bonnie Crombie called for patience as the mask mandate ended and said there will be different comfort levels.
"If you choose not to wear a mask in settings that don’t require one, that’s OK,” she said. “If you choose to wear one, that’s OK too.”
NEW: The city says voter turnout in the first 3 days of advance polls in
#Mississauga
's mayoral and Ward 5 byelections is up 42 per cent compared to the first three days in the 2022 general election.
NEW: Ward 2 Councillor
@AlvinTedjo
says he's running for
#Mississauga
mayor in the upcoming byelection. He's the fourth councillor who has pledged to join the race to succeed Bonnie Crombie.
1. I took a deep dive into Mississauga-Streetsville
@CPC_HQ
candidate
@ghada_melek
's now defunct website, and found links and posts to transphobic and anti-LGBTQ content.
#cdnpoli
In other
#Mississauga
council news, they have voted to boost
@MiWayHelps
transit hours by an additional 57K hours. Once in effect, city transit hours will have been boosted by eight per cent or 114k, over 2023.
#Mississauga
council has voted to align w/ Ontario gov & rescind its local indoor mask bylaw. The province lifted mask mandates March 21 in most indoor spaces & city staff said they've seen 'difficult behaviour' from the public while local rules remained.
#Mississauga
@Food_Bank
CEO
@meghanleen
in
@macleans
on deepening poverty in her city and elsewhere.
'When people start telling us they’re going to end their life because they can’t live in poverty anymore, it’s clear that we’ve failed them.'
Much deeper voting line up at the Frank Mckechnie community centre in
#Mississauga
. Approximately 100 in line with more folks filling in. Line looks to be moving well though with about an 1.5 before polls close
.
@mattmahoney_8
says he backs Fonseca's comments and is 'greatly concerned' about
@DipikaDamerla
's pledge and says he will be raising the issue as a potential code of conduct violation at the next governance meeting.
New from me: a contentious debate at
#Mississauga
council results in a motion supporting fourplex homes crashing and burning along with possibly $120M from the federal government in housing supports.
@MissiNewsRoom
NEW: MiWay transit workers have 'overwhelmingly' rejected
#Mississauga
's contract offer and the union representing them says strike action is on the table.
Members of
#Mississauga
’s MiWay transit union are set up outside tonight’s mayoral inauguration. Earlier this month we learned that ATU 1572 members rejected the city’s contract offer and the could soon be in a position to strike if a deal isn’t reached.
'Nobody wants to see a bus driving by already full, and we’re seeing that kind of thing a bit too often.'
New:
#Mississauga
transit getting a $2.7 million boost as service hours near 2018 levels again.
I haven't seen
#Mississauga
city council buzzing like it was yesterday w/
@superfan_nav
on hand to deliver $150K for new basketball courts in
#Malton
's Paul Coffey Park
Will voters come to the polls in one of the most important elections in the City of Mississauga’s 50-year history? A few things to know about Mississauga's voter turnout ahead of the June 10 byelection.
'No rationale given.' Major leadership shakeup in
#Mississauga
today with the city's top-ranking staffer out following the election of new mayor
@carolynhparrish
.
For those constantly hitting refresh on the city's strong-mayor decisions page as yesterday's news was unfolding. Posted as of this morning, Mayor
@carolynhparrish
reversed a
@BonnieCrombie
move last year to delegate hiring/firing to the city manager.
Wonderful support from
@BonnieCrombie
knocking doors in Ward 6 yesterday.
We listened to residents about their issues and how we need a change in the ward.
NEW: Recently resigned Councillor Karen Ras says her departure was due to her vehicle being allegedly vandalized by a fellow council member, and city officials not acting.
#Missipoli
@GrantRants
With the Lakeview and other Kaneff MZO (also for 50-storeys) still in place,
#Mississauga
Councillor's
@DaskoWard1
and
@JohnKovac4
are calling for them to be reviewed by the province.
#Brampton
councillor
@councillorjeff
pleading with the province to not extend strong mayor powers to his city and for the Ontario Ombudsman to finish audits on the Brampton university project that were recently shutdown by council vote.
Good morning! I'm anticipating another day of covering fallout from allegations that a
#Mississauga
councillor keyed another councillor's car last year. Today, the city's integrity commissioner will appear before council to answer Qs about why the incident wasn't investigated.
NEW: “Please do not be seduced into thinking that a traditional celebration is possible this year. Even if you take steps in advance."
#Mississauga
#COVID19
#COVID19Ontario
New:
#Mississauga
’s bike lanes on Bloor Street battle set to commence next week at general committee with city staff now recommending 2 single direction cycle lanes and 3 vehicle lanes.
#bikemississauga
BREAKING: Statement from the city solicitor says the report investigating allegations that
#Mississauga
councillor
@RonStarr6
keyed former councillor Karen Ras's vehicle has been submitted by the city's integrity commissioner, Robert Swayze and will be presented next week.
There’s a special guest in
#Mississauga
council chambers this morning with mayor-elect
@carolynhparrish
in the house “with no key card.” Her inauguration is set for later this month.
@Chris_Fonseca3
@JohnKovac4
@DipikaDamerla
@carolynhparrish
Fonseca is moving the staff report recommendation, which would approve recommendation 6 on Bloor Street. It's approved. Bike lanes, and a reduction of the roadway to two travel lanes and a centre turning lane coming to Bloor Street in
#Mississauga
. Vote passes 6-4.
Tuned into
#Mississauga
council this morn for a busy agenda.
@JonathanGiggs
asks for council to start recording, streaming & posting all committee and advisory meetings the city holds. Notes (I've been there) unless you virtually attend these meetings, there's no detailed record.
Should be an interesting day in
#Mississauga
politics! At least a handful mayoral hopefuls are expected officially register in the upcoming byelection starting at 3pm. I’ll have updates along the way
I’m hovering around
#Mississauga
’s clerk’s office just in case there’s any last minute candidate sign ups or withdrawals. Candidates for the city’s mayoral and Ward 5 byelections have until 2pm to register.
#Mississauga
's firefighter association (
@IAFF1212
) rejects
@citymississauga
's 'Heroes' sign, which was placed outside a local firehall, saying city officials don't understand their culture.
Over 25,000 votes in
#Peel
ridings are mail-in ballots or have been dropped off at
@ElectionsCan_E
offices, they'll be counted later this week. Ridings where there is a close race and thousands of mail-in ballots could mean there's no official results tonight.
#Mississauga
Mayor Bonnie Crombie will soon be chair of
@ONBigCityMayors
taking over for
#Guelph
Mayor
@CamGuthrie
. Group aims to advocate to the province for the interests of 29 cities with 100K people or more. Interesting time in
#Ontario
& municipal relations to take the role.
A big thanks to outgoing
@ONBigCityMayors
Chair
@CamGuthrie
for his leadership this year. As incoming Chair, I’m thrilled to work closely with Vice Chair
@MariannMeedWard
as the voice for big cities across this province and to address the issues most important to our residents.
I spoke with several
#Mississauga
council hopefuls under 35 aiming to reverse the trend of older leadership in the city and facing some uphill battles to win their wards.
#Missipoli
@MissiNewsRoom
NEW: After taking back the authority to hire/fire a number of
#Mississauga
staff last month, Mayor
@carolynhparrish
has redelegated that power back to the city manager/CAO. She retains power to appoint/remove the city's most senior staff. No mention of power to set org. structure
NEW:
#Mississauga
's integrity commissioner breaks silence following allegations that
@RonStarr6
vandalized his colleague's SUV but offers no explanation on why he didn't investigate earlier.
#Missipoli
@MissiNewsRoom
.
@RonStarr6
currently under investigation for by the city's integrity commissioner for allegedly keying a colleague's car last year is back in person and chairing today's
#Mississauga
general committee meeting.
At the Port Credit Legion tonight in
#Mississauga
for a presentation on how the Brightwater development is changing. The developer group behind the project is planning to increase the # of residential units by almost 900, and an increase of heights in some areas of the project.
Set up at Mississauga city council this morning where the report on
@RonStarr6
alleged keying of
@Karen_Ras905
will be discussed. Starr is facing a possible pay suspension, depending on council’s decision.
More shuffling in
#Mississauga
@carolynhparrish
uses her strong-mayor powers again. Sam Rogers in as commish of transportation and works, replacing Geoff Wright who was moved to CAO last week.
@EmmaCalvert76
in to replace Rogers as director of infrastructure and planning services
Another cyclist hit and transported to hospital this week in
#Mississauga
. Follows the death of an elderly cyclist Tuesday, a fatal hit and run of a pedestrian Thursday.
'Together we can stop the Ford government'
New from me:
#Mississauga
Mayor
@BonnieCrombie
opens her campaign for Ontario Liberal leader with some choice words for
@fordnation
.
New: Federal housing minister
@SeanFraserMP
appears to be warming to giving
#Mississauga
housing accelerator funding after today’s 4-plex directive from Mayor Crombie.
Great to see that Mississauga will be moving forward on four units as-of-right, along with our other recommendations.
I will be very excited to share news with the City next time I’m in town!
This is how we
#LegalizeHousing
.
BREAKING:
#Mississauga
councillor accused of vandalizing a former colleague’s car has been asked to take a leave of absence while the incident is investigated.
#Missipoli