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Class action on birth alerts gets green light against Ontario, but faces hurdles
A class-action lawsuit that hopes to help pregnant mothers who were red-flagged and had their newborns taken away by child welfare agencies has been certified to proceed against the Ontario government.
Expired joints, cracked pipes: new details emerge about leaky LRT tunnel at St-Laurent
CBC News has learned more details about how the city is addressing chronic water infiltration in the former bus tunnel, including fixing leaky joints — some of which had passed their life expectancy.
Ukrainian families question Canada's commitment as residency applications appear 'lost'
After the CUAET program closed for Ukrainians fleeing the war, Canada opened a special Ukrainian family reunification stream for permanent residence. Applicants say they're getting mixed messages from IRCC, and are desperately trying to track their "lost" applications.
Top local bureaucrats are pocketing big raises and benefits. Some taxpayers are fed up
Ontario's top municipal staffers are pocketing sometimes exorbitant benefits packages on top of high bumps in their salaries, provincial pay data shows — and some critics say that's out of touch with regular Ontarians struggling to keep up with the high cost of living.
Ontario's local ethics watchdog system a 'cash cow' in 'Wild West,' say experts urging reform
Experts say Ontario’s mandatory integrity commissioner program for municipalities has been left unregulated for too long, as some lawyers and firms monopolize contracts across the province. Even some integrity commissioners say the province needs to make some serious changes.
This Ontario town hired its own lawyer as integrity watchdog. Residents say that's not OK
An eastern Ontario township and its lawyer are under scrutiny as residents raise conflict of interest concerns over the lawyer also acting as the community's integrity commissioner — a dual role that Ontario's ombudsman says shouldn't happen.
The city tore his fence down. Was he treated fairly?
An Ottawa man whose fence was torn down by the city more than a decade ago says the city's bylaw enforcement system is unfair, and says he has evidence to support his case.
How an 11-year fence feud ballooned into $43K in tax bills and multiple lawsuits
Two Ottawa families say they've been haunted by bills for more than a decade after the City of Ottawa tore down their fence and invoiced them. Today, that fence dispute has turned into multiple lawsuits and more than $43,000 in ever-growing penalties.
IRCC stopped assigning immigration applications to inactive officers' IDs after CBC report
In the wake of a CBC investigation that revealed thousands of immigration applications had been assigned to hundreds of former employees' IDs and placeholder codes, the federal government conducted a major review and cleaned up its system to ensure none had been "forgotten."
Air travellers complained about 'unprofessional' screening staff. Now the officers are speaking up
Current and former airport screening officers say systemic issues such as high turnover, an influx of new hires, poor management and a "toxic" work culture among some teams could explain why some passengers see unprofessional behaviour at security checkpoints at Canadian airports — including Ottawa's.