News Releases

TeachingCity partners the City of Oshawa, Durham College (DC), Ontario Tech University and Trent University Durham Greater Toronto Area (GTA) celebrated the fall City Idea Lab student showcase on December 4 at the Civic Recreation Complex.

The fall student showcase highlighted the results of four City Idea Lab courses across the three post-secondary institutions. The courses focused on a variety of challenge questions, including how the City might eliminate barriers to Oshawa Youth...
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Oshawa City Council has endorsed in principle an update to the City’s strategic plan and is looking for community input.

The Oshawa Strategic Plan (O.S.P.) serves as the City's highest-level policy document and guides the work of the City, its decisions and the development of our community. On November 5, 2019, City Council endorsed in principle an updated version of the 2015-2019 O.S.P. The updates reflect initiatives and goals introduced in Council’s term to date...
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The City of Oshawa, Downtown Oshawa B.I.A. and Carea Community Health Centre have introduced a Welcoming Streets pilot project in downtown Oshawa.

Based on a successful model used in Guelph, the pilot project brings targeted outreach services to vulnerable community members in the downtown core as well as education and training to area businesses.

Through the Welcoming Streets Initiative, the partners are helping to bridge the gap between business owners and community members who...
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Oshawa Mayor Dan Carter continued to move forward the urgency for governments to work together to take action and address the opioid crisis in Ontario’s big cities by introducing a resolution at the November 15 quarterly meeting of the Large Urban Mayors’ Caucus of Ontario (LUMCO).

During the meeting, Ontario’s big city mayors were unanimous in their support of a resolution introduced by Mayor Carter requesting the provincial and federal governments develop comprehensive,...
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Within its first three months, On Point is living up to its name as an innovative and successful solution to address the health and safety issue of used needles and drug paraphernalia being discarded in Oshawa’s parks, greenspaces and other public spaces.

The City of Oshawa, The Regional Municipality of Durham and John Howard Society launched the needle clean-up pilot project in July 2019. Since July 31, program workers have safely collected and disposed of more than 4,300...
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