Toronto: Ontario Legislature and Toronto Act

toronto: No pomp, nor any circumstance, according to Toronto Star. It was a momentous anniversary though, 20 years to the day that Bill 103 made its way through the Ontario legislature for its third and final reading, after which then-lieutenant-governor Hilary Weston signed it into law. ANDREW STAWICKI / TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO By Shawn Micallef Columnist Sat., May 6, 2017 April 21 passed by Torontonians without much, if any, notice. It would radically change Toronto. This is simply Toronto now. Sometimes called the City of Toronto Act of 1997, it took effect on Jan. 1, 1998 and amalgamated the six municipalities of Metro Toronto, a municipal entity created in 1954, into what we still sometimes call the Toronto megacity, though as time passes the idea of megacity means less and less. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.