City clearing another homeless encampment in Toronto, citing fire hazard

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney promised months ago that his government would double Canada’s current rate of residential construction to reach 500,000 homes per year, but that target is “ambitious” according to Housing Minister Gregor Robertson. At the House of Commons committee on finance on Monday, Robertson was being grilled on his government’s commitment by Conservative finance critic Jasraj Singh Hallan when he said that ramping up construction up to that level would not happen overnight. “Canada is not building at that scale. That is a longer-term goal over a decade,”...