Nicole Brockbank

A former Durham Regional Police detective is being sued for nearly $300,000 by those he collected pre-construction home deposits from when he was still a police officer for what turned out to be an alleged scam.

There are no regulations specifically designed for the crypto ATM industry in Canada, which has seen more than $1 billion in transactions across the country so far this year. That's despite Canada's financial intelligence agency, FINTRAC, determining crypto ATMs have become the main method fraudsters use to get money from scam victims — and several of Canada's peer countries cracking down on the industry with targeted regulations in recent years.

Nearly a dozen former employees of crypto ATM companies operating in Canada told CBC News that fraudsters tricking scam victims into sending money through the machines is a known problem within the companies. Half of them said they don't believe the operator they worked for would be profitable without transactions tied to fraud. The other half believed the companies would still make money — just less.

A CBC News investigation revealed that cryptocurrency machines — which operate legally in Canada — have become the main vehicle fraudsters use to get money from scam victims across the country.

Toronto police are using $2.4 million in provincial funding to improve the flow of information from the courts into the bail compliance dashboard they created to allow officers to complete more compliance checks on more people on bail.

Toronto businessman Anchuan Jiang and his companies owe more than a million dollars in unpaid wages and fines for not paying wages. Employment lawyers say the province needs new enforcement tools to stop businesses like his from operating until workers get paid.

An Ontario Superior Court judge has dismissed a $300,000 lawsuit filed by a developer against an engineering student for trying to “silence” his concerns about the redevelopment of a Mississauga, Ont., mall and plans to build adjacent residential towers.

Moiz Kunwar, 28, has been charged with fraud and is facing two lawsuits related to an alleged pre-construction home deposit scam worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

A Canadian academic has been waiting nearly five years for freedom of information records from Toronto police concerning facial recognition technology. He thinks there needs to be better enforcement of access legislation.

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.

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.

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.

The Toronto Region Board of Trade released its congestion action plan with five key recommendations to help alleviate Toronto's congestion crisis today.

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.

Statistics Canada data reviewed by CBC Toronto shows a dramatic shift in criminal outcomes in Ontario over the last decade. The majority of criminal cases in the province have ended with charges being withdrawn, stayed, dismissed or discharged before a decision at trial since 2020.

The most recent review of the Ontario government's progress on implementing the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act considered the current state of emergency procedures for people with disabilities an immediate safety threat. But almost a year and a half after receiving the report, the province hasn't updated its emergency protocols. 

Ten former students are suing a Markham, Ont. company for a collective $108,000 in tuition they paid to what turned out to be a business providing unapproved vocational programs. Ontario's superintendent of career colleges ordered the company to stop advertising and offering the program in July.

Tenants in a Toronto apartment complex are fighting an above-guideline increase (AGI) to their rent because nearly half of the expenses that the increase is supposed to cover stem from an environmental assessment of the land generally used to help sell or redevelop property.

Ontario’s self-described Crypto King will likely remain bankrupt until criminal fraud and money laundering charges are resolved against the 25-year-old. Justice William Black dismissed Aiden Pleterski’s application for a discharge from his nearly two-year-long bankruptcy in a ruling released Thursday.

Ontario’s self-described “Crypto King” continues to hide income connected to online gaming and other internet services from his bankruptcy proceeding, according to the trustee overseeing it.