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Throne Speech a positive and hopeful signal for municipalities
FCM President Bill Karsten issued this statement following the delivery of today’s Speech from the Throne.
  • Broadband
  • Homelessness
  • Housing
  • Infrastructure
News release
FCM welcomes new action to house vulnerable amid pandemic
FCM President Bill Karsten issued the following statement following today’s federal announcement on a new Rapid Housing Initiative.
  • Homelessness
  • Housing
News release
FCM urges rapid housing solutions amid pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic compounds Canada’s ongoing housing crisis, FCM is proposing a federal initiative and partnership to rapidly repurpose on-sale private buildings as permanent, non-profit housing for vulnerable Canadians.
  • Homelessness
  • Housing
News release
COVID-19: FCM welcomes CMA Foundation donation to support vulnerable populations
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities welcomes this unprecedented philanthropic contribution from the Canadian Medical Association Foundation (CMAF) that will directly support vulnerable populations struggling with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 Community Response Fund for Vulnerable Populations will empower municipalities across Canada to better reach, protect and assist the most vulnerable among us.
  • Homelessness
  • Opioid crisis
  • Public safety
News release
FCM welcomes Canadian poverty reduction strategy
​​​​​​​Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) President Vicki-May Hamm issued the following statement in response to today's release of Opportunity for All, the federal government's national poverty reduction strategy.
  • Homelessness
  • Housing
  • Inclusive communities
  • Poverty reduction
News release
Municipalities bring local solutions to reduce poverty
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) is putting forward local solutions today to reduce poverty across the country—with formal recommendations for the federal government's promised Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy.
  • Homelessness
  • Poverty reduction
News release
National Housing Day: New hope this time
FCM President Clark Somerville issued the following statement today, on National Housing Day.
  • Homelessness
  • Housing
News release
Canada’s mayors meet to launch cities’ priorities for a National Housing Strategy
Don Iveson, Mayor of Edmonton and chair of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM)'s Big City Mayors' Caucus (BCMC) and Mayor John Tory will meet with BCMC colleagues at the Toronto Housing Summit, September 30, 2016 to lay out a plan to make sure that every Canadian has an affordable place to call home.
  • Big City Mayors' Caucus
  • Homelessness
  • Housing
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