Weekend GO train sevice coming to Brampton
Brampton is one-step closer to having All-Day Two Way GO train service. A range of new additional trips have been added including regular weekend GO train service on the Kitchener GO Line that currently provides many commuters weekday service to and from Toronto’s Union Station to Kitchener. Metrolinx is taking steps to improve train service […]
Peel Region calling on province to end homelessness in Ontario
Homelessness is at crisis levels across Ontario. Councillor Vicente’s motion calling on the province to urgently commit to ending homelessness in Ontario passed unanimously.
Championing an end to alarming auto-theft increase
In just the first two months of 2022, 874 vehicles were stolen, a 63% increase from the same timeframe in 2021. The problem is widespread and growing fast.
Peel Memorial to Become a Full Hospital
Ontario’s provincial government has announced it will proceed with the second phase of Peel Memorial which will transition the health and wellness centre into a 250 bed full-service hospital with a 24 hour emergency department. Following years of advocacy efforts by Brampton City Council and Mayor Patrick Brown, the Province says it will move ahead […]
Region of Peel to initiate study on governance options
Should they break up the Region of Peel? Amalgamate Brampton, Mississauga and Caledon into one super city? Keep things as they are today? After nearly two hours of discussion at the Region of Peel, Councillors voted this week to approve a $600,000 study to determine the costs of three potential governance scenarios being considered by […]
The biggest loser in the Ontario provincial election
By Paul Vicente Elections used to be about issues. There are so many of them. Fiscal issues, family issues, transit, infrastructure, auto insurance, healthcare, et cetera. In this provincial election, we don’t seem to be talking about issues. Much. Instead, the media reports are filled daily with stories about scandals, candidates’ transgressions, sordid […]
Metrolinx says parking is safe at Brampton’s Ryerson University location
Will the construction of a new university in Brampton mean that parking will be eliminated as a result of Ryerson’s building plans? Not likely, according to Metrolinx. The City of Brampton has released images that define the precise location of the new university to be built by Ryerson University in partnership with Sheridan College, the […]
Brampton LRT assembly facility will support over 600 new jobs
Steven Del Duca, Minister of Economic Development and Growth, was in Brampton today to announce the future home of Alstom’s new LRT assembly facility, to be built in Brampton. “This is where the vehicles will be assembled, that will help to carry our regional transit system into a new era,” said Del Duca. “The state-of-the-art […]
Peel Memorial Phase II: Everything you want to know
On Thursday, Brampton was the site of an announcement on the future expansion of healthcare services in our city. Dr. Eric Hoskins, the Ontario Minister of Health and Long Term Care committed to add 37 new beds to Brampton Civic Hospital and to begin the process of development of Phase II of Peel Memorial Hospital. […]
Hospital Crisis in Brampton
This past week we learned that 4,352 patients were cared for in the hallways at Brampton Civic Hospital last year. According to a briefing note revealed by a freedom of information request and presented by the Ontario NDP at Queen’s Park, surge pressures at the Brampton facility have pushed occupancy rates to 114 per cent […]