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Daily Update: November 21, 2025

November 21, 2025 | Daily Update

In this edition:

  • Recycling collection for businesses and other non-residential properties to be discontinued starting Jan. 1, 2026
  • Canadian home sales record sixth monthly gain in last seven months
  • Niagara Region agrees to waive nearly $1M in charges for Parliament Oak hotel
  • Alectra paves the way for safer entry to Community Care
  • Government of Canada announces investments totalling $6 billion to strengthen Canada’s trade and transportation infrastructure
  • Focus on Technology

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A pile of used plastic bottles await recycling

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Recycling collection for businesses and other non-residential properties to be discontinued starting Jan. 1, 2026

ffective Jan. 1, 2026, recycling collection for non-residential properties serviced by Niagara Region will be discontinued.

This change is in response to the Province’s Blue Box Regulation (O. Reg. 391/21), which shifts responsibility for residential recycling to producers – the companies that supply packaging and paper products. Non-residential properties, referred to as Non-Eligible Sources (NES), are not included in the provincial Blue Box program. As a result, recyclables from these properties can no longer be collected on the same vehicles as residential material.

For more information, visit niagararegion.ca/projects/blue-box-transition.

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Photo credit: Jaruwan photo / Adobe Stock

Canadian home sales record sixth monthly gain in last seven months

The number of home sales recorded over Canadian MLS® Systems edged up 0.9% on a month-over-month basis in October 2025, marking six monthly gains in the last seven months.

“After a brief pause in September, home sales across Canada picked back up again in October, rejoining the trend in place since April,” said Shaun Cathcart, Senior Economist with the Canadian Real Estate Association.

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Picture credit: Peter J. Lesdow

Niagara Region agrees to waive nearly $1M in charges for Parliament Oak hotel

After an extensive debate among Niagara Region councillors on Thursday night over whether or not to waive nearly $1 million in development charges for the Parliament Oak hotel project in Niagara-on-the-Lake, council voted 14-11 to go ahead with waiving the fee.

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Picture credit: Alectra Utilities

On Wednesday, Stefanie Bonazza, Government and Industry Relations, and Faisal Rao, Manager, Station Sustainment, met with the team at Community Care St. Catharines and Thorold to celebrate the construction and maintenance of a new, secure parking lot for Community Care staff and volunteers.

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A view from the bridge of a container ship underway

Picture credit: Abubakar / Adobe Stock

Government of Canada announces investments totalling $6 billion to strengthen Canada’s trade and transportation infrastructure

Today, the Honourable Steven MacKinnon, Minister of Transport and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and the Honourable Maninder Sidhu, Minister of International Trade, announced two trade infrastructure funds. Supported by $6 billion over seven years through Budget 2025, these investments will help build the infrastructure Canada needs to unlock access to new global markets, while also doubling non-U.S. exports.

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Focus on Technology

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government has tabled its first official budget, entitled Canada Strong. It frames itself as a road map of investments being made to strengthen national sovereignty via economic productivity and national defence. Central to those efforts is artificial intelligence.

AI-heavy technologies have been identified by eight federal agencies in the 2025 budget as a way to reduce operational expenditures while fuelling productivity.

Many of the investments in the budget are aimed at developing the defence industry through the creation and commercialization of what’s known as dual-use technology — goods, software and technology that can be used for both civilian and military applications — which can also include AI.

But is Canada Strong actually weak on AI?

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Through the Daily Updates, the GNCC aims to deliver important business news in a timely manner. We disseminate all news and information we feel will be important to businesses. Inclusion in the Daily Update is not an endorsement by the GNCC.

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