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An Uber drove away with her kid. Then Uber wouldn't connect her or police with the driver
An Ontario mother is raising concerns about Uber's emergency policies after one of its drivers drove away with her five-year-old daughter still in the back seat. She says the ride-sharing company refused to contact the driver and police found the child without its help.
She was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said
A Toronto woman is raising concerns about her privacy being breached after she received a text message transcript of her conversation with her roommates during a Lyft ride last month.
CBC Investigates
Fraudsters hijacked GTA man's company record, tried to mortgage its $12M property for cash
Hitender Sharma was shocked to learn someone had changed his holding company's corporation record to leverage the mortgage-free commercial property it owns for cash. Sharma's case and a handful of others are raising questions about the security of business records in Ontario.
U.S. firms won $210M in Toronto city contracts in last 2 years. Why a ban on their bids matters
A CBC Toronto analysis of competitive city contracts awarded in Toronto since late 2022 found that 10 per cent were won by American-owned companies, worth about $210 million. Experts say those numbers are significant and a ban on U.S. bids could have an impact on the trade war.
Toronto hasn't ticketed a single driver for idling in the last 5 years. Here's why
Toronto was the first Canadian municipality to implement an anti-idling bylaw nearly 30 years ago. But a new report reveals the city is no longer proactively enforcing the bylaw and no tickets have been issued to drivers who idle for longer than a minute since 2019.
Board of trade wants to tackle Toronto's congestion crisis with these 5 solutions
The Toronto Region Board of Trade released its congestion action plan with five key recommendations to help alleviate Toronto's congestion crisis today.
Gridlocked: The Way Out
Congestion already costs Toronto drivers time and money. Here's how tolls could help
The final part of CBC Toronto’s three-part series Gridlocked: The Way Out explores why the idea of congestion pricing and tolls is so deeply unpopular in Ontario, despite helping ease traffic in other major cities, and how drivers may already be paying for congestion one way or another.
Gridlocked: The Way Out
Why experts say work on these 5 fronts is needed to tackle Toronto's congestion crisis
Part 2 of CBC Toronto's three-part series, Gridlocked: The Way Out, explains why congestion is so bad in Toronto and how experts say implementing a combination of several solutions in tandem could make things better.
Gridlocked: The Way Out
As gridlock grinds Toronto to a halt, here's what the city could learn from Seattle's traffic cameras
Part 1 of CBC Toronto's three-part series, Gridlocked: The Way Out, explores how automated enforcement for blocking the box and driving in bus lanes could help alleviate congestion in Toronto by looking to Seattle's existing programs.
Ontario mulling having prosecutors approve criminal charges before police lay them
Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General is considering the merits of moving to a system in which prosecutors would screen criminal charges proposed by police before officers lay them, in order to help relieve the province's backlogged justice system.