| 143364 | REPORT | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | AMENDED | N | Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Expansion - Update | 2025.EC24.1 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>This report provides an update on expansion of Toronto’s licensed child care system, including progress on the implementation of the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) system locally; the impact of the cost-based funding formula; and capital expansion planning and progress since the introduction of the Early Learning and Child Care Infrastructure Fund.</p> | 24 | 1 | CMMTTEE | EC | All | N | 1762923600000 | … | Report | ACTION | Amended | Main | Committee | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | ACTION | true | Amended | — |
| 143363 | REPORT | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | AMENDED | N | Strategic Expansion of the Association of Community Centres in New Development Projects to Strengthen Toronto Communities | 2025.EC24.2 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>Toronto’s growth and persistent inequities highlight the urgent need for community development infrastructure that fosters inclusion, resilience, and local leadership. Community facilities are linked to improved mental health, stronger social ties, and a greater sense of belonging. In 2024, more than 80% of community organizations reported rising service demand amid escalating financial and real estate pressures. To help address this need, the City can expand its network of community development infrastructure through the proven Association of Community Centres (AOCCs) model.</p>
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<p>Currently, there are ten AOCCs, operated by volunteer Boards of Management, delivering local programs and services on behalf of the City. AOCCs play a critical role in advancing City policies to support equity-deserving communities and strengthen local neighbourhoods. Each Centre functions as a local Board under the City of Toronto Act, 2006, with a <a href="https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/accountability-operations-customer-service/city-administration/city-managers-office/agencies-corporations/agencies/association-of-community-centres/">Relationship Framework</a> that outlines Council’s expectations and delegated authority. The City provides access to City-owned or leased facilities and core administrative funding, while the AOCC Board generates and oversees program funds through fundraising, space rentals, membership and programming fees.</p>
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<p>This report outlines an Implementation Strategy to advance the AOCC Expansion Framework, as directed by Council (<a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2024.EC14.7">2024.EC14.7</a>). It introduces AOCCs as a viable community development option within Toronto's broader network of social infrastructure. The Strategy includes place-based assessment guidelines, scalable facility models, and a multi-year Facilities and Operations Plan to align capital investment and operational planning. These measures will modernize existing AOCCs and integrate new ones into development projects, co-located with municipal services to promote equity, sustainability, and complete communities.</p> |
| 143194 | REPORT | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | ADOPTED | N | Intention to Designate the Humber Bay Shores Business Improvement Area | 2025.EC24.3 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>This report recommends that the City Clerk conduct a poll to determine if there is sufficient support to designate the area Southeast from the CN Rail Corridor from Mimico Creek to Humber Bay River and connecting with Humber Bay Park East and West side areas as the Humber Bay Shores Business Improvement Area (BIA).</p>
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<p>Upon completion of the poll, the General Manager of Economic Development and Culture will report on the results to City Council through the Economic and Community Development Committee. Subject to a positive poll result, staff shall prepare the necessary by-laws and bills to give effect thereto.</p> | 24 | 3 | CMMTTEE | EC | 3 - Etobicoke - Lakeshore | N | 1762923600000 | … | Report | ACTION | Adopted | Main | Committee | … | … | … |
| 142896 | LETTER | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | POSTPONE | N | Advancing Toronto's Screen Future: Key Findings for a Strategic Vision | 2025.EC24.4 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>At its meeting on September 15, 2025, Film, Television and Digital Media Advisory Board considered Item <a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.FB8.1">FB8.1</a> and made recommendations to the Economic and Community Development Committee.</p>
<p> <br /><strong>Summary from the report (September 15, 2025) from the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture:</strong><br /> <br />The film and television industry is a key economic and cultural driver, producing an annual direct spend as high as $2.6 billion and meaningfully contributing to Toronto's cultural vibrancy. As the Economic Development and Culture Division develops a five-year Film Strategy in alignment with the priorities identified in both Sidewalks to Skylines: An Action Plan for Toronto's Economy and Culture Connects: An Action Plan for Culture in Toronto, it retained the services of Olsberg SPI Ltd., to ensure an informed approach based on the current industry and economic landscape. This report includes their key findings, based on comprehensive research, an analysis of the current state of film production in Toronto, and extensive engagement – including 7 roundtables with 43 stakeholders, 25 one-on-one consultations with senior executives, and a sector-wide survey that reached 200 industry professionals.</p>
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<p>The City acknowledges receipt of Olsberg SPI Ltd.'s report and the significant amount of research and insight from subject matter experts and industry leaders reflected in the report. This report was commissioned in order to inform Toronto's Film Strategy. The report is included as Attachment 1.</p>
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<p>Marguerite Pigott, Film Commissioner and Director of Entertainment Industries, Economic Development and Culture Division, City of Toronto will give a presentation on Film Strategy Recommendations.</p>
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<p>The presentation will cover recommendations to support Toronto’s Film Sector from Toronto’s Screen Future – A Strategic Framework for Continued Growth 2025-2030, for discussion by the Film Board.</p> |
| 142895 | LETTER | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | REFERRED | N | Dublin and London Mission 2025 - Final Report | 2025.EC24.5 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>At its meeting on September 15, 2025, Film, Television and Digital Media Advisory Board considered Item <a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.FB8.2">FB8.2</a> and made a recommendation to the Economic and Community Development Committee.<br /> <br /><strong>Summary from the report (September 15, 2025) from the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture:</strong><br /> <br />From July 7 to 11, 2025, Mayor Olivia Chow led a delegation of 8 Toronto screen industry organizations to Dublin and London to foster new relationships with screen industry organizations based in the United Kingdom and Ireland in order to encourage co-production with Toronto-based companies.</p>
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<p>This report provides an overview of the Mayor's Dublin and London Mission, including key activities, objectives, and outcomes of the Mission.</p> | 24 | 5 | CMMTTEE | EC | All | N | — | … | Letter | ACTION | Referred | Main | Committee | … |
| 142886 | LETTER | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | ADOPTED | N | Addressing Evictions through Disaggregated Race-Based Data in Social Housing - Request for Presentations | 2025.EC24.6 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>At its meeting on September 3, 2025, the Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee considered item <a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.CR7.3">CR7.3</a> and made recommendations to Economic and Community Development Committee.</p>
<p><br /><strong>Summary from the Letter (May 27, 2025) from Walied Khogali Ali:</strong></p>
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<p>The Ombudsman Toronto report (Item <a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.CC30.3">CC30.3</a>, May 22, 2025) underscores gaps in tenant protection in multi-tenant homes, disproportionately affecting Black, Indigenous, and racialized residents. Disaggregated race-based data collection is essential for identifying systemic barriers and informing equitable housing policy. The Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee has a mandate to advance data-driven approaches that address anti-Black racism.</p> | 24 | 6 | CMMTTEE | EC | All | N | — | … | Letter | ACTION | Adopted | Main | Committee |
| 143360 | LETTER | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | AMENDED | N | Creating a Small Business Friendly Approach to Licensing and Permitting | 2025.EC24.7 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>City Council on October 8 and October 9, 2025, referred <a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.EC23.10">Item EC23.10</a> to the Economic and Community Development Committee for consideration.</p> | 24 | 7 | CMMTTEE | EC | All | N | 1762923600000 | … | Letter | ACTION | Amended | Main | Committee | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … |
| 143379 | LETTER | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | ADOPTED | N | Creating Community Opportunities through the 4610 Finch Avenue East Long-Term Care Home Project | 2025.EC24.8 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>The City of Toronto’s Seniors Services and Long-Term Care (SSLTC) Division is responsible for service planning and strategic integration of services for seniors, which includes key caregiving programs within our communities, and direct operation of ten long-term, resident-focused care homes. As part of the Capital Renewal Plan, five of the City’s Long-Term Care (LTC) homes (1,232 beds) are being redeveloped to modernize operations. One of these projects is a 378-bed long-term care home in Scarborough North, 4610 Finch Avenue East, at Brimley Road.</p>
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<p>SSLTC Division is guided by the shared values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence; these values are a natural fit with the City’s Community Benefits Framework, which applies to this project. The City commonly utilizes hard targets to maximize the social, economic, community or environmental impact of large civic infrastructure projects like this one.</p>
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<p>SSLTC has a track-record in building ground-breaking inclusive programs, care, and services, alongside community partners and clients:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- Leading and Learning with Pride for 2SLGBTQI+ Seniors;</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- Toronto Seniors’ Strategy to prepare City services for the future, including those who are Indigenous, Black, and who belong to equity-deserving groups.</p>
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<p>Given the demographics of Scarborough, there is an opportunity to respond to the Ministry’s Long-Term Care Homes Cultural Pilot in order to better support applicants on the waitlist, those living in LTC, and also their loved ones and caregivers experience the best possible quality of life, while also having a positive and enduring impact on the surrounding community.</p> |
| 143511 | LETTER | N | N | NEW | ACTION | ADOPTED | N | Toronto Sports and Culture Should Be For Everyone | 2025.EC24.9 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>Dear Members of the Economic and Community Development Committee,</p>
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<p>Sporting events are historic occasions. Whether it’s the Blue Jays facing off in the World Series, or the six upcoming FIFA World Cup soccer matches, Toronto is abuzz with excitement. But these events come with predatory price-gouging for fans. A ticket to the World Series game in Toronto in 1993 cost less than $32 – now, resale tickets are going for up to $10,000.</p>
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<p>Other provinces have made progress on price-gouging. In Quebec, tickets cannot be resold for any price higher than face-value. But in 2019, Ontario Premier Doug Ford scrapped implementation of legislation that would have started to address sky-high resale prices.</p>
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<p>Everyone should get a fair shot at participating in these historic moments in our city. Fans have a right to fair prices, both in the resale ticket market and other costs around the games, like parking and vending. I’m asking the members of the Committee to call on the Province of Ontario to do the right thing and stand up for fairness, and for the City of Toronto’s bylaw enforcement teams to do our part and help with enforcement in the areas we can.</p> | 24 | 9 | CMMTTEE | EC | All | N | 1762923600000 | … | Letter | ACTION |
| 143556 | LETTER | N | N | NEW | ACTION | ADOPTED | N | Understanding the Impacts of Bill 60 on Homelessness in Toronto | 2025.EC24.10 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>On October 23, 2025, the provincial government introduced Bill 60: Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, which includes concerning changes to tenancy rights and eviction protections. This legislation has sweeping consequences for Toronto renters and threatens to deepen the homelessness crisis in our city.</p>
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<p>It is a good sign that the province has backed away from their initial proposal to also look at changing or ending “security of tenure” after outcries and organizing from tenants across the province. For the sake of Torontonians, we need to make sure this isn’t contemplated again in the future.</p>
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<p>Earlier this year, the Association of Municipalities of Ontario reported that over 80,000 people are experiencing homelessness across our province in 2024. In Toronto, the 2024 Street Needs Assessment showed significant increases in the number of people experiencing homelessness since 2018, with demand for City shelter and housing services at a record high. Critically, 42% of people surveyed in the Street Needs Assessment said that information about their legal rights as tenants could have prevented their loss of housing.</p>
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<p>If the provincial government’s proposals to erode tenant rights and make it easier to evict Torontonians becomes law, we could see a significant increase in renters losing their housing, becoming homeless, and requiring access to already-stretched City shelter and housing services. My recommendations request that City staff provide analysis on the potential impacts of Bill 60 on homelessness in Toronto so that we can be prepared.</p> | 24 | 10 | CMMTTEE | EC |