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In its third year the Burlington Food Bank's "Canstruction Junior" event brings together high school students for a chance to learn outside of school. In constructing their models using mostly canned goods, as well as other packaged foods, they're helping the community and learning about food insecurity. All of it just ahead of Thanksgiving when food banks across the region need fully stocked shelves.

Burlington's signature Sound of Music Festival has fallen on hard economic times. Organizational changes have left the festival in a disarray resulting in the City of Burlington providing loans to bail out the festival both of the last two years. Naturally this is not a financially sustainable model for the festival or the city. Burlington Mayor Marianne Meed Ward provides an update.

Families and friends took the streets of Downtown Burlington this weekend to raise funds for struggling newcomers to Canada. Devan Murugan joined the event's organizers to find out more about the annual Ride For Refuge.

The Town of Milton held the by-election for Ward One Town Councillor on Monday. This is the spot that was vacated when Kristina Tesser Derksen was election as the MP for Milton-East Halton Hills South. 3,971 votes were cast out of 23,155 eligible voters making the turnout a disappointing 17%. Candidate George Minakakis dominated at the polls reaching nearly double the amount of votes attained by runner-up former Councillor Rick Dilorenzo. Jason Agnew spoke with the newly elected councillor earlier today and asked if he anticipated such a wide victory margin.

A new initiative in Milton aims to bring the community together through music. The Halton Music Project was launched to be a uniting element which will celebrate cultural traditions and educate the audience in a town with an ever-growing and diverse population.

If you're looking for an enjoyable evening of dancing and supporting the local Burlington Hospital, Nikki Wesley has the family friendly event you're looking for! It may just be time for you to learn how to play Garba.

The Municipal vs. Provincial automated speed camera controversy continues. Yesterday, Jason Agnew spoke with Oakville Mayor Rob Burton who said that he had signed a document with many other mayors across the province asking the Provincial Government to reconsider the proposed ban on speed cameras. That document did find it's way to the Premier, and he swiftly sent a document of his own back to the chair of the Ontario Big City Mayors, who just happens to also be the Mayor of Burlington Marianne Meed Ward. Jason caught up with Mayor Meed Ward minutes after she received the document from her new pen pal.

As Diwali approaches, the south asian mommies of Milton are lighting up the community with a series of events to celebrate and showcase south asian culture. Videographer Craig Mcnicoll joined one of the festivities at the Milton mall this weekend.

Automated speed enforcement remains one of the hot topics in the province of Ontario. With Premier Ford saying his government would implement legislation to stop allowing municipalities to have speed cameras, many towns and cities across the province are taking a stand against this decision. This morning Jason Agnew spoke with Mayor Rob Burton of Oakville, a town that just put in place speed cameras last fall... Jason Agnew asked Mayor Burton about how this decision will potentially impact Oakville as well as the progress of the town's ASE program.