Overview
- The city’s planning advisory committee unanimously approved a five-storey Hyatt Studio proposal on Loch Lomond Road and sent it to a public council hearing in August with conditions that include a $25,000 developer contribution for traffic work and a required roughly 125-metre sanitary-sewer extension to service the site.
- A separate uptown application to convert a three-unit building into seven apartments was tabled by the committee while the developer supplies finalized floor plans, structural details and formal architectural drawings for staff review.
- The federal government pledged $2.3 million toward a 12-unit supportive-housing project for vulnerable women in Waterloo Village, bringing total committed investment above $3.7 million and naming several prospective tenants who will receive wraparound services.
- Prosecutions connected to the December 2024 diesel leak at the Beardsley Road Irving in Woodstock have been adjourned again so defence lawyers can review disclosure, while provincial officials say remediation is ongoing and more than 201,000 litres of diesel have been recovered.
- Opinion pages and analysis in Alberta are focused on a pre-referendum debate over fiscal grievances and the province’s future role, with commentators highlighting a near 61 percent decline in oil-and-gas extraction investment from 2014 to 2024 and arguing that weak private investment shapes the wider political argument.