The Greater Toronto Airports Authority recently reported that air traffic over the Greater Toronto Area, including Milton, during the first nine months of 2023 increased to 88 percent of what it was in 2019, prior to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Passenger growth increased 11.9 percent for the first three quarters of 2023 at Toronto Pearson […]
Good Neighbours Day, the popular community-led, volunteer neighbourhood clean-up program founded in 1992 by former Ward 2 resident, the late Len Lee (1942 – 2023), will return on Saturday April 27th after a five-year hiatus. Starting off with registration and breakfast at 8 a.m. at Hugh Foster Hall, located beside Town Hall, volunteers will be […]
The Town of Milton will request the Province of Ontario to install sound barriers along Highway 401 where there are residential neighbourhoods adjacent to North America’s busiest superhighway as a result of a motion brought before Milton Council to consider same by Ward 2 Local Councillor John Challinor II. Mr. Challinor’s motion was seconded by […]
Existing school crossings and pedestrian crossovers were reviewed by Town staff in late 2023, following a request by Town of Milton Ward 2 Local Councillor John Challinor II, which was supported unanimously by Milton Council, and are being upgraded throughout the community, based on traffic counts. All future school crossings and pedestrian crossovers will be […]
Town of Milton Ward 2 Local Councillor John Challinor II has garnered the support of Milton Council in his efforts to get the Province of Ontario to formally acknowledge Milton’s existence at all of the Highway 401 interchanges that take motorists into Canada’s fastest growing community. His motion was seconded by Ward 1 Regional Councillor […]
Milton Council formally banned the distribution, sale and discharge of consumer fireworks across the community, as of December 2023. Fireworks displays celebrating such activities as Chinese Lunar New Year, Victoria Day, Canada Day and Diwali will be permitted if they occur at a venue approved by the Town of Milton, if the setting off of […]
During the late summer, Town of Milton Ward 2 Local Councillor John Challinor II had discussed the need with senior Town staff to adopt multi-year operational budget planning as well as consider participation by Milton Council in regular financially-focused workshops. Councillor Challinor and Town of Milton Ward 1 Local Councillor Kristina Tesser Derksen had successfully […]