About OakvilleIQ

Most of what changes a neighbourhood is decided in public, in documents few people read: planning applications and staff reports, Council and committee agendas, school board reports, transit service notices and provincial registries. They are written to satisfy a statute rather than to inform a resident.

OakvilleIQ reads those documents and reports what they say. A resident should be able to finish one of our stories knowing what was decided, what it means for their part of the town, what happens next, and which document to check us against.

OakvilleIQ covers the Town of Oakville, and the Halton Region decisions that land in it: development and planning, schools, neighbourhoods, Town Hall and Council, transit and infrastructure, housing policy, municipal services and the public datasets that describe the town. In practice that means planning applications, school boundary reviews and new school construction, Council decisions and the municipal budget, Oakville Transit service changes, road work and the elections that choose who decides.

We do not cover crime, sport, restaurant openings or event listings. Others do those well; we would rather explain the decisions that shape Oakville properly than offer a thin version of everything.

Stories and data pages are built from primary public records: Town notices, staff reports, agendas and minutes, school board reports, provincial registries and official open data. Every story lists the documents it relies on at its foot, with the date each was retrieved, and every data page names its dataset, publisher and licence on the data and sources page. Another publication can be a tip, never a source: anything learned elsewhere is checked in the primary record, and the primary record is what we cite.

Before a story is published, each factual statement in it — names, numbers, dates, addresses, the stage a process has reached — is checked against the primary document it cites. Dates are kept honest: a story shows when OakvilleIQ published it, and when it was last updated, never a date chosen to make it look new. Where a figure is a proposal rather than an approval, the story says so; where something is not yet known, it says that too. The full rules are in our editorial standards.

OakvilleIQ is independent. It is not affiliated with the Town of Oakville or Halton Region , either school board, any political campaign or any real estate business, and it endorses no candidate. It has no sponsors or advertisers. If that ever changes, our standards require us to say so here before the change takes effect.

When we get something wrong, the correction is part of the record rather than a quiet edit: the story keeps its address, shows an updated date, and carries a dated note for any correction that changes its meaning. Every such note is also listed on our corrections page.

To request a correction, email editor@oakvilleiq.ca with the story and, if you have it, the document that shows what we got wrong.

Publication

OakvilleIQ (oakvilleiq.ca)

Coverage

Town of Oakville, Ontario, within Halton Region

Byline

Stories appear under the OakvilleIQ Newsroom byline. We publish as one accountable masthead rather than inventing reporter names.

Standards

Editorial standards · Corrections · Privacy

Contact

editor@oakvilleiq.ca