Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner said his priorities include investments in deeply affordable housing, as well as cancelling highway projects such as Highway 413 around the Greater Toronto Area.

The council recently sent a letter to Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development Minister Monte McNaughton outlining its position on the issues.

The federal government has announced more than $460,000 in funding to install a solar energy system at the Kingston East Community Centre.

With 64 projects and 9,262 rooms, Toronto accounts for about 25% of all projects in Canada’s total construction pipeline.

The jobless rate stayed at 4.9 per cent in July, the lowest since comparable record-keeping began in 1976, Statistics Canada reported Friday in its latest labour force survey.