Have Your Say: Town Launches Community Engagement to Help Build Whitby’s 2024 Budget

Residents invited to have their say until July 21

What Town of Whitby services are most important to you? Which would you prioritize if you were building Whitby’s 2024 Budget? These are questions the Town is asking residents and local businesses to answer as it launches community engagement to help build its 2024 Budget.

Each year, the Town undergoes an extensive budget planning process to prepare the annual municipal budget. Community engagement is an important part of this process, providing...

Read more

Top Ten Things To Do in Whitby This June 2023

June is one of our favourite months at the Town. It marks and celebrates Pride Month, Bike Month, Recreation and Parks Month, Seniors Month, National Indigenous History Month, Local Food Week – and the start of summer!

There are many ways to recognize these important awareness days and get involved:

Join us on Saturday, June 3 as we kickoff Recreation and Parks Month with a ‘Play In Whitby’ Day at Iroquois Park Sports Centre (500 Victoria St.). Come check out the...

Read more

Waterfront, Beaches, Parks Top Community Priorities for Future Recreational Investments in Whitby

4,000+ residents engaged in process to develop new Parks and Recreation Master Plan

Whitby residents want to see more investment in the community’s waterfront, beaches, parks, and open spaces, the first phase of engagement to develop a new Whitby Parks and Recreation Master Plan showed.

From December 2022 to February 2023, the Town engaged more than 4,000 people in learning more about, and sharing their feedback on, the future of parks and recreation in Whitby. Feedback during this first phase was...

Read more

Town Brewery to open temporary location at historic Pump House

Project is part of Council’s commitment to revitalizing Whitby waterfront

Residents and visitors will be able to enjoy a cold beverage from Town Brewery at the Whitby waterfront this summer.

Last night, Whitby Council approved a license agreement for a five-year pop-up food and beverage operation at the historic Pump House building.

“This is the first of many good news stories about the redevelopment of our waterfront,” says Whitby Mayor Elizabeth Roy, who has been working with Town Brewery on the...

Read more