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The sister of an Ontario man who disappeared in Australia's Snowy Mountains nearly two weeks ago says she remains hopeful he will be found, partly because of his training as a Canadian Forces reservist.

Mark Towhey, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's Chief of Staff, leaves city hall in Toronto Thursday, May 23, 2013 after he was fired by Ford, who is caught up in a scandal over a video purportedly showing him smoking crack cocaine.

A day after Toronto mayor Rob Ford carefully denied smoking crack cocaine, The Globe and Mail unleashed a bombshell of a story alleging the entire Ford family -- and Ford's closest adversary in office -- has very close ties to the drug trade.

Toronto has a chance to become the first city in Canada that extends the right to vote in municipal elections to all permanent residents, citizens and non-citizens. Municipal bureaucrats have prepared a report on the pros and cons of extending the right to vote to immigrants with permanent resident status.

It's that time of the year again, when weekend events take over Toronto, leading to road closures across the city.

Toronto Police would like to make the public aware of an increase in break-and-enters during the nighttime hours in the Bayview Avenue and Steeles Avenue East area.

The Riverdale Hub is a grassroots community-based social enterprise. Through renovation and retrofitting, this once-crumbling, century-old building became the vibrant, cutting-edge, 90 per cent energy efficient Riverdale Hub.

Odd that the name "sneakers" came about because the rubber soles were quieter than shoes with hard leather bottoms, and yet in the place where sneakers are the most iconic is the basketball court, where the footwear's outrageous squeaks make stealth unfeasible.

Brampton resident Shane Garry, 45, has been charged with sexual assault for an alleged crime that took place more than 20 years ago.

At this first Annual Customer Focused Forum, The keynote presentation was done by a large Canadian financial institution.

Summer beer festivals in Toronto present only one problem - because there are so many to choose from, keeping track of them all actually becomes difficult.

The Toronto Star, Canada May 22 2013 Canada's ambassador to Cuba to attend Toronto man's corruption trial in Havana After two years in jail with no charges, North York's Sarkis Yacoubian now faces serious corruption charges that could get him 12 years in prison.

Murray Menkes began by building starter houses but soon took on more ambitious projects, becoming the first to register a condominium in Ontario.

One of the last surviving CN railway stations in Toronto sat vacant in a waterfront community of Etobicoke for years.

Peter Freed, the pioneer developer behind a string of popular King West condominiums, is now planting the flag in midtown Toronto with a plan to develop a series of contemporary high-rises in the Yonge-Eglinton corridor.

The Munk School for Global Affairs, located at the University of Toronto's downtown campus Photo courtesy of: Toronto.ca TORONTO - Doors Open is a gateway to Toronto's past, but also channels the city's development and transformation since infancy.

Wearing an orange jumpsuit and appearing via video link, Chiheb Esseghaier told the justice of the peace that he did not have a lawyer.

A body wrapped in a garbage bag was pulled from Lake Ontario by the Toronto Police Marine Unit Wednesday afternoon.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford announced Thursday that he is cancelling a special meeting in which city councillors were due to debate the casino issue.

The Cawthra Park Secondary School chamber choir has played some big shows: Roy Thomson Hall with the TSO, the Air Canada Centre with Cirque du Soleil.