In this edition:
- Provincial pressure sparks regional review of costly Niagara services
- Plan aims at boosting affordable housing in West Lincoln
- Pearl Morissette again being named best in Canada
- Big Head Wines estate for sale at just under $23.5M
- MaRS launches First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) Lab to try and scale cleantech companies
- Canada strengthens regulation of immigration and citizenship consultants
- Millennials face lower homeownership rates than earlier generations
- Focus on Human Resources
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Provincial pressure sparks regional review of costly Niagara services
The chief administrative officers of Niagara’s 13 municipalities met behind closed doors in Niagara Falls Monday to kick-start a review of how local services are delivered.
“We have been pushed and rightly so,” Niagara-on-the-Lake Lord Mayor Gary Zalepa said during last Thursday’s regional council meeting. “Taxpayers deserve modern, reformed government. It’s overdue, and now is the time for real change.”
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Plan aims at boosting affordable housing in West Lincoln
Late last month West Lincoln councillors approved the township’s Affordable Housing Community Improvement Plan.
Under the plan, builders can tap into some of the $95,985 council has set aside to cover all or a significant portion of planning application costs and building permit fees for affordable units.
Gerrit Boerema, director of growth and sustainability, said the funding is available whether someone is planning to build one or 100 affordable housing units.
Photo credit: Jim Norton Photography / Town of Lincoln
Pearl Morissette again being named best in Canada
On Monday evening, Restaurant Pearl Morissette was named the best restaurant in the country for the second consecutive year. It is the fifth restaurant to earn the top spot in back-to-back years.
After debuting on Canada’s Top 100 Restaurants list at No. 97 in 2025, St. Catharines’ Fat Rabbit made a significant leap in 2026 — cracking the top 50 at No. 48.
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Big Head Wines estate for sale at just under $23.5M
Andrzej (Andre) Lipinski, named Canada’s winemaker for 2026, has installed a for sale sign on his family-owned Big Head Wines estate because he wants to continue creating “beautiful” wines. The winery, which opened in 2012 at 823 Line 6 Rd. in Niagara-on-the-Lake, is listed on Realtor.ca for just under $23.5 million.
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MaRS launches First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) Lab to try and scale cleantech companies
On May 6, MaRS announced the launch of a new, nine-month program, called the MaRS First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) Lab, designed to try and help Canadian cleantech ventures developing net-new technologies successfully build their first full commercial-scale deployments.
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Canada strengthens regulation of immigration and citizenship consultants
Today, the Honourable Lena Metlege Diab, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, announced new regulations to enhance the oversight of immigration and citizenship consultants in Canada.
These measures will reinforce the role of the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants and help applicants obtain more reliable, transparent and accountable services throughout their immigration or citizenship process.
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Millennials face lower homeownership rates than earlier generations
A new Statistics Canada study finds that millennials aged 25 to 39 had a lower adjusted homeownership rate in 2021 than Gen-Xers did in 2006 or baby boomers did in 1991. More millennials are also living with parents, with the rate reaching 16.3% in 2021, nearly double the baby-boomer rate three decades earlier. The findings point to continued affordability pressures in Canada’s housing market, with implications for workforce attraction, retention, and housing supply in growing regions.
Focus on Human Resources
If Canada wants to build, it needs immigrants
Rick Lamanna, Maclean’s
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