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Ontario’s Big City Mayors call for relief, recovery as they respond to second wave of COVID-19
October 15, 2020 – Mayors of Ontario’s 29 largest cities met with provincial and federal ministers via video conference today to press the need for investment in infrastructure and municipal operating funding for 2021, as communit…
Ontario Mayors and Regional Chairs discuss recovery with federal and provincial ministers
August 12, 2020 – The path to economic and social recovery from COVID-19 was the focus of the annual joint meeting of Mayors and Regional Chairs of Ontario (MARCO) and Ontario’s Big City Mayors (OBCM), formerly known as the Large …
Ontario’s Big City Mayors encouraged by federal and provincial governments’ agreement to bring emergency funding to municipalities
July 16, 2020 – Ontario’s Big City Mayors are encouraged by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pledge of $19 billion for the provinces and territories to support a safe restart of the Canadian economy, which includes the provision of…
Ontario Mayors and Chairs issue emergency call for financial support
July 6, 2020 – Today, Mayors and Chairs from across Ontario, represented by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, the Mayors and Regional Chairs of Ontario, and the Large Urban Mayors Caucus of Ontario, met to discuss the …
“Do it now:” Ontario’s Big City Mayors press federal and provincial governments for emergency funding for municipalities
June 5, 2020 – The Large Urban Mayors Caucus of Ontario (LUMCO) met this morning for further discussion about the growing financial and service delivery challenges municipalities face as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic….
Ontario’s Big City Mayors urge provincial and federal governments to provide relief for municipalities
May 14, 2020 – Ontario’s big city mayors are calling on the federal and provincial governments to provide immediate financial support to municipalities as they face unprecedented economic challenges due to COVID-19….
Ontario’s Big City Mayors discuss post-COVID recovery with federal and provincial ministers
May 8, 2020 – Ontario’s big city mayors are urging the governments of Ontario and Canada to continue to work in partnership with municipalities to address the economic impacts of COVID-19, and to plan for post-pandemic recovery an…
Ontario’s Big City Mayors join the Federation of Canadian Municipalities in calling for emergency funding for municipalities
April 28, 2020 – The Large Urban Mayors Caucus of Ontario (LUMCO), which is comprised of the province’s 29 largest cities and represents almost 70 per cent of Ontario’s population, has joined the Federation of Canadian Municipalit…
Ontario’s Big City Mayors applaud Ontario’s fiscal response to COVID-19
March 26, 2020 – The members of the Large Urban Mayors Caucus of Ontario (LUMCO) are applauding the provinces economic and fiscal response to COVID-19 as outlined in Ontario’s Action Plan: Responding to COVID-19 (March 2020 Econom…
Ontario’s Big City Mayors discuss collaborative response to COVID-19 with provincial Ministers of Finance, Municipal Affairs and Housing
March 24, 2020- The mayors of Ontario’s 29 largest cities met via teleconference today to discuss the response to COVID-19, as measures continue to be implemented to protect Ontarians health and wellbeing….
Ontario’s big-city mayors urge Province to invest in top urban issues
February 21, 2020 – At a meeting in Toronto today, Ontario’s big-city mayors urged the provincial government to consider the pressing needs of cities as they craft their 2020 Budget….
LUMCO submission to Ontario’s 2020 Prebudget Consultation
February 20, 2020 – The Large Urban Mayors Caucus of Ontario (LUMCO) is comprised of 29 mayors of Ontario cities with populations of 100,000 or more. LUMCO’s membership grew by one member this year as Clarington’s growth pushed it…
Big-city mayors meet with Ontario’s Finance Minister
November 15, 2019 – Ontario’s big city mayors brought their message of municipal fiscal sustainability to Ontario’s Minister of Finance Rod Phillips today, as he joined them in Ajax for the quarterly meeting of the Large Urban May…
Statement from Mayor Cam Guthrie, Chair of the Large Urban Mayors’ Caucus of Ontario
October 25, 2019 – Today, Mayor Cam Guthrie, Chair of the Large Urban Mayors Caucus of Ontario (LUMCO) released the following statement on behalf of Ontario’s big-city mayors very pleased that Minister Clark’s announcement demonst…
Ontario’s big city mayors await details on transitional funding
August 19, 2019 – Ontario’s big city mayors are cautiously optimistic that transitional funding will soften the blow of Provincial funding cuts for 2020, but are again asking for a seat at the table to work with the Province over …
OBCM in the news
Ontario launches audits of 6 municipalities to look at how housing law will affect budgets
3rd party audits expected to measure impact to changes in development fees
CBC News Posted: July 26, 2023
‘Let us figure out how it works’: Mayors of Ontario’s biggest cities aren’t willing to give up local control over housing decisions
Ontario's Big City Mayors are meeting in Kitchener this week.
The Kitchener Record
Posted: April 20, 2023
Ontario big city mayors to discuss concerns over province's new housing bill
Ontario’s Big City Mayors (OBCM) will meet on Friday as tensions rise between the mayor of the province’s largest city and Premier Doug Ford over the financial impacts of a new housing bill.
Kitchener-Waterloo: Window to restore relationship with municipalities 'is closing', say Big City Mayors
In a public letter addressed to the chair of Ontario's Big City Mayors (OBCM) Cam Guthrie, the Ford government says it will be launching a third-party audit of select municipalities across the province.
Opiod's Harm to Ontario's Big Cities
Cam Guthrie, Mayor of Guelph and Chair of Ontario's Big City Mayors, discusses the toll of the opiod crisis across the province
Ontario's Big City Mayors
Mayor Shaun Collier
Town of Ajax
Mayor Alex Nuttall
City of Barrie
Mayor Patrick Brown
City of Brampton
Mayor Kevin Davis
City of Brantford
Mayor Marianne Meed Ward
City of Burlington
Mayor Jan Ligget
City of Cambridge
Mayor Darrin Canniff
Municipality of Chatham-Kent
Deputy Mayor Willie Woo
Municipality of Clarington
Mayor Cam Guthrie
City of Guelph
Mayor Andrea Horwath
City of Hamilton
Mayor Bryan Paterson
City of Kingston
Mayor Berry Vrbanovic
City of Kitchener
Mayor Josh Morgan
City of London
Mayor Frank Scarpitti
City of Markham
Mayor Gordon Krantz
Town of Milton
Mayor Carolyn Parrish
City of Mississauga
Mayor Rob Burton
Town of Oakville
Mayor Dan Carter
City of Oshawa
Mayor Mark Sutcliffe
City of Ottawa
Mayor Kevin Ashe
City of Pickering
Mayor David West
City of Richmond Hill
Mayor Mat Siscoe
City of St. Catharines
Mayor Paul Lefebvre
City of Greater Sudbury
Mayor Ken Boshcoff
City of Thunder Bay
Mayor Olivia Chow
City of Toronto
Mayor Steven Del Duca
City of Vaughan
Mayor Dorothy McCabe
City of Waterloo
Mayor Elizabeth Roy
Town of Whitby
