The city is permanently unplugging its automated speed enforcement cameras effective midnight on Friday to meet a November 15 deadline imposed by the Ontario government for their removal. Article content

The city had little choice but to comply with new Queen’s Park legislation that put an end to the speed camera program after Premier Doug Ford called the devices nothing but a cash grab by 37 cities across the province. Article content

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Ford remained determined to shut the cameras down after city mayors wrote a collective letter asking him to keep the cameras up and running to keep community safety zones and school zones safe from speeding motorists.

Coun. Garnet Thompson, chair of the city’s Transportation Committee, told The Intelligencer on Mon

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