Mayors in Cambridge and Guelph are urging the province to help address homeless encampments, including allowing mandatory mental health and addictions treatment and potentially using the notwithstanding clause to bypass court rulings. The call has raised concerns over charter rights violations and the effectiveness of forced treatment.

Demand to be on the list of 4,600 households receiving Christmas Food Hampers led to unprecedented levels of web traffic for House of Friendship.

Frozan Hassan Zai has spent eight years building a community in Canada after escaping the Netherlands with her two children. Now, because Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has deemed her marriage false, she received deportation orders Tuesday saying she must leave by the first week of December. "In this big world, there is no place we can call home," she says.

Online swaps and little libraries - a Cambridge puzzle exchange community was born out of the pandemic and is still thriving.

The Food Bank of Waterloo Region says one in eight households in the community is experiencing food insecurity, according to its annual Community Impact report released Monday. That's a change from four years ago when one in 20 households faced the same challenge.

Ontario has raised the minimum age for youth minor sports teams to apply for charitable lottery licences from 18 to 21. This change, led by the New Hamburg Firebirds, helps teams maintain or even establish sometimes crucial revenue streams.

A high number of alcohol-related tickets were issued and as many as 40 noise complains were filed this year as part of celebrations held around Guelph as part of homecoming weekend, police say.