With housing prices in Canada’s major cities already holding at steady highs, one of Canada’s largest real estate firms is predicting that aggregate home prices in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) will climb by another 11 percent in the final quarter of 2023. Royal LePage said in a housing-price forecast published on July 13 that it’s…

A 32-year-old man charged in the death of a woman killed by a stray bullet in Toronto previously served 15 months in jail after stabbing someone in the heart, one episode in a lengthy criminal history. Court documents show the accused, Damian Hudson, was found guilty of aggravated assault after stabbing a man during a…

TORONTO—At least two people have serious injuries following a shooting in downtown Toronto. Officers were called to 7 Charles Street West just after 6 a.m. this morning. Police are releasing few details, but say a male and female victim were rushed to hospital with serious injuries An unknown number of suspects fled the scene in…

Chaos erupted on a moving subway train in Toronto on Thursday afternoon as passengers fled from a violent altercation that involved the stabbing of one man. A video capturing the altercation between two male passengers has been posted online. In the footage, a man appeared to abruptly throw a punch at the other party, and…

Olivia Chow has been elected the new mayor of Toronto. With almost all of the polls reporting, Chow, a former Toronto city councillor and NDP MP, had over 264,000 votes, or just over 37 percent of the total vote. But it was a close race much of the evening, with Ana Bailao, a former city…

A group of parents at Toronto’s Jean Lumb elementary school say the school board’s insistence on maintaining all gender-neutral washrooms is “anti-feminist and discriminatory.” Those adjectives were included in the subject line of a letter several parents signed and sent to the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) on June 21. The parents are calling for a…

A group of parents at Toronto’s Jean Lumb elementary school say the school board’s insistence on maintaining all gender-neutral washrooms is “anti-feminist and discriminatory.” That description was included in the subject line of a letter several parents signed and sent to the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) on June 21. The parents are calling for a…

Seven of Toronto’s mayoralty candidates clashed over how to deal with homeless encampments, during a debate hosted by CP24 on June 15. And one of the fiercest clashes came between Olivia Chow and Anthony Furey. Furey, a journalist, vowed he would put families first in his drive to get rid of the encampments. “I am…

Ontario has awarded a contract in the planned expansion of GO Transit service into the Durham Region, which Premier Doug Ford says “is one of the fastest growing regions not only in the province, but the entire country.” The expansion will connect thousands of daily commuters with downtown Toronto and other areas of the GTA,…

Initiatives introduced by the city of Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission have done little to stop major crime on public transit and increase rider confidence, according to data shared by the city on June 12. Major crime incidents—defined by Toronto police as assault, sexual assault, robbery, shootings, and other violent crimes—were up more than…