Alyshah Hasham

Toronto city council voted 24-1 on Wednesday for a new housing plan that includes construction of 65,000 new rental homes but needs major injections of funding from the federal and provincial governments to make it happen.

Council to vote this week on spending $63 million more on transit plans designed to service more than 100,000 expected to move into the area.

The plan would come with significant financial requests of the provincial and federal governments: $500 million to $800 million in grants per year, in addition to low-cost loans.

As Olivia Chow marks 100 days as mayor of Toronto, the Star checks the status of some key promises she made during her election campaign.

The company noted “merchants may experience some transaction slowness while systems catch up.”

Police believe there may be more victims after the young girl was assaulted in a plaza in the Bovaird Drive and Mountainash Road area of Brampton on Sept. 21.

The clock is ticking on a byelection that could happen in May and mayoral hopefuls will have to make quick decisions on whether to run.

Toronto homeowners will pay more in property taxes, while the city’s spending plan assumes $2 billion in funding from Ottawa and Queen’s Park.

Sasikaran Thanapalasingam has acknowledged he the man seen on video chasing down and killing his estranged wife Tharshika Jeganathan, but has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

Third round of provincial funds will priortize people with criminal records, at-risk youth, those with disabilities, Indigenous people and Ukrainian newcomers