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No one knows who owns this Toronto laneway, but neighbours say it's become a dangerous dumping ground
Frustrated shop owners in Toronto's Yonge and Wellesley area say the city is refusing to pick up mounds of garbage that regularly accumulates in an adjacent laneway because it's private property — even though the laneway's last known owner died more than a century ago.
Toronto wants to ban paid plasma clinics, but 2 are already slated to open in the city next year
Toronto is declaring itself a paid-plasma-free zone — a designation that will likely do nothing to stop Canadian Blood Services from opening two clinics in the city's suburbs that will pay people for plasma donations in 2025.
Residents want to know why revitalization project left strip of parkland derelict
Some residents living near a park in the Kensington-Chinatown neighbourhood say the city dropped the ball on its ambitious three-year plan to upgrade the grounds, ignoring a derelict section that they say is ugly and unsafe.
Dead animal pickup times in Toronto prolonged by spike in calls
It can now take more than a week for City of Toronto staff to retrieve an animal cadaver after it's reported. And that stinks, according to one city councillor.
Toronto residents detail Metrolinx construction pains
It's been full steam ahead for Metrolinx's Ontario Line, but some of the residents near the under-construction Pape stop say they're feeling railroaded by the provincial transit agency.
Toronto tribunal reduced 40% of parking ticket fines last year on appeals citing 'hardship'
More than 40 per cent of drivers appealed their parking tickets last year on the grounds of "hardship" and had their fines cancelled or reduced — a number that's far too high, one city councillor says.
Toronto's oldest apartment set to get 10-storey addition — tenants still inside
A Dutch developer, ProWinko, is planning on adding 10 storeys to an existing low-rise heritage building in the Annex — while the current tenants continue to live inside. Councillors passed a zoning amendment Wednesday — with a few conditions.
What's happening to Toronto's commemorative plaques? 18 missing from midtown
At least 18 bronze commemorative plaques - worth thousands of dollars each - have vanished from bridges and parks in the midtown core, according to a count by CBC Toronto.
Leaside residents say higher tower project left them blindsided
A group of residents in a midtown Toronto neighbourhood is vowing to take their fight against a developer to the city's ombudsman.
Toronto backtracks on removing businessman's name from historic house after racism controversy
City officials in Toronto have reversed course on a controversial decision to remove the name of a prominent early 20th century Toronto businessman from a historic home, in light of new information brought forward by his descendants.