After the federal government rejected Doug Ford’s plan to expand Billy Bishop airport, Mayor Olivia Chow is now asking the province to return expropriated airport lands back to the City, including Toronto Islands and Little Norway Park.

Chow penned an urgent motion to City Council on Monday to “stop the province’s land grab” and “give back” the City’s waterfront.

“Since the province first announced their desire to expand the Island airport, we have demanded to see the plans and worked to understand the potential

Toronto police are looking for a suspect who has allegedly stolen repeatedly from the same store in the East Danforth area over the last 10 months.

Police say five incidents of theft have been reported at a retail business in the Danforth and Woodbine avenues area between Sept. 7, 2025 and July 21, 2026 – all involving the same suspect.

In each incident, they allege that the suspect selected a quantity of merchandise, made no effort to pay and exited the store – stealing numerous

Showers and thunderstorms are expected to hit Toronto and the GTA for the first half of the week before clearing up ahead of the long weekend.

CityNews meteorologist Jessie Uppal says the risk of storms begins this afternoon as the temperature hits 26 C, feeling more like 36.

“As we get through the rest of this afternoon, heavy downpours, on-and-off showers and thunderstorms. Quite a bit of lightning as well, so you want to be indoors as these storms roll through. That will target,

Hamilton police have arrested a woman from Niagara Falls after an investigation into an alleged romance scam targeting a 75-year-old Hamilton man.

The probe began in December 2025.

“The investigation revealed that the victim met and developed a relationship with a woman in March 2025,” a Hamilton police release explained.

“Over the following months, the woman allegedly convinced the victim to provide approximately $20,000 after claiming she needed financial assistance to cover her parents’

The Calgary Police Service (CPS) issued a warning last week about a GoFundMe website which claimed to be raising funds to help the family of missing 11-year old boy Parker Wells.

CPS said the fundraiser is not authorized and has no connection to Parker’s family.

“At this time, the family has confirmed that there is no official GoFundMe associated with this case,” they said.

This follows another development in a separate story in Ontario that CityNews first reported on back in April.

Durham Police announced

Police have charged an Etobicoke rideshare driver with two counts of sexual assault following an incident in Burlington earlier this month.

Halton Regional Police Service investigators say a woman was in the south parking lot of the Burlington GO Station on June 16 around 5:15 p.m. when she was approached by the accused. A conversation began during which he allegedly sexually assaulted her.

The woman left immediately but the accused allegedly followed her to a business a short distance away. He then approached her and allegedly sexually assaulted her