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Canada’s small towns are being recognized as some of the best places to live in the country, according to Maclean’s magazine’s first-ever Best Communities in Canada list. Of the 415 Canadian municipalities that the magazine compared, almost 60% of those in the top 50 spots are smaller communities with fewer than 40,000 people. Small towns have traditionally been painted as sleepy, struggling places

Fact check: Have social housing levels fallen to historic lows? The chief executive of advocacy group National Shelter says Australia has a “severe housing problem” caused by a lack of social housing, saying it has fallen to a low of 4.2 per cent from a high of 7.1 per cent. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates. Read more  

A citizens group in Ayr is expected to receive a $240,000 loan from the region to finish a 21-unit affordable housing project. But in approving the funding at the region’s community services committee meeting on Tuesday, regional Coun. Geoff Lorentz, who represents Kitchener, said he felt they were setting a precedent for similar requests in the future. “We understand that

“Following a public expression of interest to fill the vacant seat on the WHA board, Dale Mikkelsen was successfully appointed as the new director,” Crompton said in his mayor’s report at the Aug. 13 council meeting. “In addition, G.D. Maxwell was successfully appointed to the new position of employee housing community representative.” Former board chair Michael Hutchison resigned in April