Issues

Feb 28 2025
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Temporary night flight schedule

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Please be informed of a potential adjustment to Toronto Pearson’s regular operations following last week’s Delta Airlines flight 4819 incident.

To address a backlog of cancelled and delayed flights resulting from the five-day shutdown of Runway 05/23, Transport Canada has given Toronto Pearson temporary permission to fly some additional nighttime flights to return us to full operations, if needed.

At this time, we are prioritizing day-time operations and are not anticipating any significant increase to our night flight schedule.

However, should residents have concerns about noise during restricted hours, there are a number of ways they can engage us:

  • Phone: Call 416-247-7682 to ask questions or share concerns
  • Insightful Online Portal: This easy-to-use online resource allows you to access information about noise management and learn more about aircraft operations.
  • Noise Complaint Form: Submit up to 50 noise complaints simultaneously via the online form.
Feb 28 2025
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Regulating protests near Places of Worship 

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Municipalities like Mississauga are working to find the right balance – ensuring residents can express their views peacefully while maintaining public safety, security and access to places of worship. The City is considering the feasibility of a by-law which would regulate some forms of protests near Places of Worship in Mississauga.

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Feb 28 2025
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Imagine Mississauga

By Hurontario LRT, Issues, Parks, Planning & Development, Resources, Transit

 

Imagine Mississauga: Your Vision, Our Shared Future

The City of Mississauga is inviting residents to help shape the future by contributing to the refresh of its Strategic Plan. This important document will guide the city’s growth, address challenges, and set priorities today and into the future. From housing and climate action to transportation and arts, your input will help create a shared vision for a vibrant and inclusive Mississauga.

How to Get Involved:

  • Share your ideas by completing the online survey at mississauga.ca/imagine
  • Meet City Ambassadors at local events, community centers, and museums to provide feedback. Upcoming dates in Ward 1 include:
    • Sunday, March 16 at Port Credit Arena, 11 am-4 pm
    • Wednesday, March 19 at Mississauga Seniors Centre, 9 am-2 pm
    • Saturday, March 22 at Port Credit Arena, 11 am-5 pm
    • Friday, March 28 at Mississauga Seniors Centre, 9:30 am-1:30 pm
  • Attend a free speakers’ event this spring featuring experts in equity, climate action, and urban mobility (registration required).

Key Focus Areas:
The refreshed Strategic Plan will center on eight themes, including housing affordability, climate resilience, mobility innovation, economic vibrancy, and inclusive community building. Join us in shaping Mississauga’s future. Visit mississauga.ca/imagine and learn more and share your vision today!

Complete Survey

Feb 25 2025
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Peel Regional Police Update: Highlighting Critical Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking

By Announcement, Issues

In recognition of National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Peel Regional Police highlighted their ongoing efforts in combating this serious crime. Human trafficking, which exploits vulnerable individuals for labour and sexual purposes, affects countless lives in Peel Region and across the world.

In 2024, PRP’s Vice and Human Trafficking Unit made significant strides in addressing this issue. Some key accomplishments include:

  • 38 individuals charged with human trafficking-related offences
  • 143 human trafficking-related charges laid
  • 30 survivors supported through the provincial court system
  • 5 firearms seized through proactive efforts to reduce crime in our communities

In collaboration with social service partners, victim service counsellors are embedded directly into the VICE Unit, allowing officers to provide immediate, expert support for survivors. Beyond preventing crime, PRP’s Vice and Human Trafficking Unit is committed to education by providing comprehensive training to diverse community groups across Brampton and Mississauga, including vulnerable international students, to raise awareness of the dangers and signs of human trafficking. Additionally, every sworn member of Peel Regional Police has undergone survivor-led anti-human trafficking detection training to ensure a compassionate, informed, and effective response to survivors.

PRP’s video news release here: https://x.com/PeelPolice/status/1893005761548083450

Feb 14 2025
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Choose Canada When you buy Canadian, you support your family, your community, and your country. Keep us strong, one product at a time.

By Announcement, Food for thought, Issues
In recent weeks, Canada has faced threats from the United States about placing tariffs on Canadian goods, with the United States announcing plans to implement a 25% tariff on all Canadian aluminium and steel products starting March 12, 2025. There are also ongoing discussions about the potential for additional tariffs to be implemented soon after.In response, Canadian governments at all levels, including the City of Mississauga, are encouraging everyone to come together and put Canada first. Buying Canadian where posssible and supporting local businesses keeps our country strong and united against these external threats.

Statement from Mayor Carolyn Parrish on U.S. Tariffs

How you can help

When you direct the money you already spend on food and supplies to Canadian products and businesses, you help build resilience in our community for adapting to an uncertain future.  

Wherever possible, choosing products made or produced in Canada, and sold by Canadians, supports your local and country-wide economy during these turbulent times and harmful tariffs.

  • Buy products with a Made in Canada or Product of Canada label 
  • Shop at local Canadian-owned businesses 
  • Get your supplies from Canadian suppliers 
  • Choose to vacation in Canada 

What the labels mean

According to Competition Bureau Canada:

  • Product of Canada: At least 98% of the product contains Canadian ingredients and materials 
  • Made in Canada: At least 51% of the product is made in Canada in our factories and businesses  

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Feb 11 2025
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Imagine Mississauga: Your voice, our shared future

By Announcement, Food for thought, Issues, Parks, Planning & Development, Resources

February 11, 2025

The City of Mississauga is calling on residents to help shape Council’s new Strategic Plan, a forward-thinking document that will guide growth, address key challenges, and chart a path toward a vibrant and resilient future. From housing, environment and economic development to transportation, infrastructure, and arts and culture, the public’s insights will play a crucial role in imagining the Mississauga we all aspire to live in. By participating in City planning, the community is crafting a legacy that will guide Mississauga’s development for generations, shaping the future through public input today.

Public engagement and education activities

The City is launching a new public engagement campaign to seek the public’s ideas and input on eight key priorities identified by City Council. Residents can share their feedback through these activities:

  • Visit mississauga.ca/imagine to learn more about the project and complete a survey to share your ideas and contribute to the fabric of Mississauga’s future.
  • Engage with our City Ambassadors to share your opinions at various events, community centres, arenas and museums in your neighbourhood.
  • Speakers event (spring): Be inspired by leading experts in equity, diversity, inclusion, climate action and urban mobility at this free special event (registration in advance will be required).

Imagine Mississauga guided by your vision

Imagine Mississauga is about creating a collective vision that reflects the hopes, needs, and aspirations of every resident. This visionary blueprint will steer our city’s growth, resource allocation, and response to both present challenges and future opportunities. It’s a commitment to creating a Mississauga that resonates with all who call this municipality home.

Key themes for the Strategic Plan

As we imagine the next chapter of Mississauga’s story, the City is focusing on eight central themes and will be engaging with residents on the following:

  1. Reimagining mobility: Envisioning innovative transportation solutions to reduce congestion and enhance connectivity.
  2. Climate resilience: Imagining a greener, more sustainable Mississauga for generations to come.
  3. Housing for all: Creating solutions for accessible, affordable housing that fosters diverse communities.
  4. Wellness reimagined: Visualizing a city where personal and public wellbeing flourish through enhanced services and programs.
  5. Fiscal innovation: Imagining smart, sustainable financial strategies that support our city’s growth and stability.
  6. Inclusive Mississauga: Creating a city where diversity is celebrated, and every resident feels a sense of belonging.
  7. Economic vibrancy: Nurturing an economy that attracts investment, inspires innovation and creates opportunities for all.
  8. Arts and culture: Cultivating a vibrant creative environment that celebrates diversity, enriches community life through artistic expression and positions Mississauga as a cultural destination.

Learn more, get involved

Your imagination is the key to unlocking Mississauga’s potential. Be part of this transformative journey by sharing your ideas at mississauga.ca/imagine.

Feb 04 2025
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Mississauga Matters: City outlines its priorities and recommendations ahead of the 2025 provincial election

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The Mississauga Matters campaign focuses on getting housing built and keeping Mississauga affordable for all.

February 4, 2025

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a provincial writ with election day scheduled for Thursday, February 27, 2025. With the election less than a month away and voters getting ready to head to the polls, the City of Mississauga has launched its renewed advocacy campaign, Mississauga Matters.

About Mississauga Matters

The City’s Mississauga Matters campaign ensures that all provincial candidates and major political parties recognize the significant role Mississauga plays in the province. The Mississauga Matters campaign will focus on two priority pillars; getting housing built and keeping Mississauga affordable for all. The priorities outlined within the campaign aim to strengthen the city and ensure stable funding for ongoing challenges like the housing crisis, the development of local and regionally connected transit and funding shortfalls for major projects rebuilding the Mississauga Hospital (The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital). Most of all, the priorities aim to keep Mississauga an affordable place to live.

While the City and the provincial government have tackled several important issues together, Mississauga is dedicated to advocating for the needs of its residents. The 2025 Mississauga Matters campaign focuses on the following  priorities:

  1. Getting housing built: Leveraging housing-enabling infrastructure

  • Extending of the Dundas Bus Rapid Transit line, to reduce travel times for approximately 30,000 new daily riders and improve east-to-west connections across the GTHA.
  • Expanding transit for all-day, two-way GO Service for the Milton GO Rail corridor, which serves approximately 8,000 businesses, supports more than 143,000 jobs, and is projected to serve up to 94,000 passengers by 2041.
  • Advance funding and alignment confirmation for the Hazel McCallion Line Extension (Downtown Loop) Mississauga.
  • A new transit facility to support the expansion of sustainable public transit in Mississauga, which is critical to increase housing availability in our community and achieve the Government of Ontario’s target of 120,000 new homes over the next 10 years.
  • Expediting the approval of Mississauga’s applications to the Housing Enabling Water Systems Fund and the Housing Enabling Core Services Stream to support housing development initiatives and meet urgent community needs while providing flood protection for communities.

  1. Keeping Mississauga affordable for all

  • Addressing the housing crisis demands with feedback from our partnership with more than 30 experts from Ontario’s leading private and not-for-profit housing developers, who have developed actionable solutions. In July 2024, Mississauga launched a Mayor’s Housing Task Force with private and non-profit representatives to address housing supply challenges, building on the 2023 Housing Action Plan with strategic recommendations in development charges, building standards, zoning, and affordable housing funding.
  • Supporting predictable funding for Mississauga by signing a new deal to provide equitable transit funding, recognizing Mississauga’s status as a major economic hub and one of the largest economic centres in both Ontario and Canada.
  • Advocating a fair share deal for the Region of Peel and Mississauga, given the Region currently faces a deficit of $868 million annually, translating to a $578 per-person financial gap across Mississauga, Brampton, and Caledon.
  • Reconsider the amount expected from the Mississauga community for the local share needed for a new regional healthcare facility in Mississauga – the Mississauga Hospital rebuild.
  • Removing the 5% payment in lieu of taxes (PILT) cap for the Greater Toronto Airports (GTAA). This ensures a more equitable formula that prevents tax increases on residents and businesses.
  • Investing in solutions to Mississauga’s food insecurity crisis by prioritizing funding to support local food banks in Mississauga and support the Groceries and Essentials Benefit brought forward by Food Banks Canada, aimed to help struggling households afford vital costs like food and shelter.

The Mississauga Matters campaign will run throughout the provincial election as a way for residents to engage with the priorities that affect their lives ahead of voting day. The City is encouraging residents to join the conversation on social media and reach out to local candidates using the #MississaugaMatters hashtag.

Mississauga Matters branded image

For more information on Mississauga’s provincial election priorities, please visit mississaugamatters.ca.