Toronto

Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto have ranked among the top ten most liveable cities in the world in the latest ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Police and courts in Toronto will receive $25 million from the Ontario government to bolster efforts to fight guns and gangs, Doug Ford announced on Thursday, August 9, 2018, saying the funds would give authorities the tools needed to deal with a recent rise in violence.

Canada is willing to consider any possible measures that might reduce gun violence and organized crime, but will stay the course when it comes to border security, says the federal minister who's now overseeing the Liberal government's approach to all three.

The announcement by Ontario’s month-old conservative government to slash the number of councillors in Canada’s largest municipality has threatened to upend a core democratic process already in full swing, say experts and candidates. The question on everyone’s minds now is what checks are in place to thwart such a reconstruction and what Toronto’s democracy could look on the other side.

The City of Toronto now has $11 million in its coffers from the federal government to pay down some costs it has incurred dealing with an influx of irregular border crossers.

A long-promised triage system aimed at redirecting irregular border crossers from crowded shelters in Montreal and Toronto will not be in place until as late as the end of September.

Mourners converged on two private funeral services on Monday, July 30, 218, to bid goodbye to the two young victims slain in the mass shooting in Toronto's Greektown neighbourhood.

This type of commentary brings out the worst in those of us who fear the other, and who want Canada to remain a monolithic nation.

Inside a large brick home in midtown Toronto, people pore over documents needed to file refugee claims, discuss the legal aid system, and work through the challenges of finding housing.

Mayor John Tory met with three prominent members of Toronto's hip-hop community on Friday, July 6, 2018, to discuss possible solutions for the recent spate of gun violence in the city.

An up-and-coming rap artist was one of two people killed in a brazen daylight shooting in Toronto's bustling entertainment district, police said on Sunday, July 1, 2018, marking the latest deaths in a surge of high-profile gun violence on the city's streets.

A Canadian hyperloop company is threatening to relocate its headquarters to Europe unless it secures political support at home for its technology that would transport goods and passengers through tubes at airplane speeds.

Toronto can no longer accommodate new waves of refugees and asylum seekers in its shelter system and needs federal and provincial help dealing with the situation, the city's mayor said on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, as he called for immediate support.

As Toronto's annual Pride parade wound through the city's core on Sunday, June 24, 2018, the streets might have been their usual sea of colour, but at moments, a heaviness hung in the air.

“We are opposed to what we can tell that the PCs are standing against and for under Ford,” said Brittany Smith, a senior campaigner with the group.