Can My Landlord Enter Without Permission in Ontario? The 24-Hour Rule, Explained
Ontario entry rules: 24 hours written notice, a specific time between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and the buyer-versus-tenant showing distinction most people get wrong.
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Ontario entry rules: 24 hours written notice, a specific time between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and the buyer-versus-tenant showing distinction most people get wrong.
Units first occupied after 15 November 2018 are exempt from Ontario rent control. The real test, the basement-apartment catch, and what you keep either way.
Ontario has set the 2027 rent increase guideline at 1.9%. What it costs in dollars, the N1 service deadline for every 2027 effective date, and who is exempt.
Stonegate-Queensway sits below the Toronto average on assault, robbery, auto theft and vehicle theft, and its auto theft count has fallen by nearly two thirds since 2023. But recorded shootings rose to four in each of the last two years. The full numbers.
Alderwood sits below the Toronto average on assault, robbery, auto theft and vehicle theft — but its assault count has doubled since 2019 and its theft-over rate is the 12th highest in the city. The full 2025 numbers, with the awkward parts included.
Long Branch recorded 6 robberies and 76 assaults in 2025 among 13,151 residents, with every major indicator below the Toronto average. The numbers, the trend since 2019, and what a small neighbourhood’s statistics can and cannot tell you.
Humber Bay Shores ranks in the quietest fifth of Toronto neighbourhoods on 2025 police data, with the seventh-lowest robbery rate in the city. Here are the numbers, the source, and what the data does not cover.
Mimico appears at the top of Toronto crime tables — and the reason is a provincial jail inside the neighbourhood boundary. Here is what the 2025 police data says once you separate the two, with the numbers and the source.
A data-first answer using Toronto Police Service open data for 2025: how Etobicoke compares to the Toronto average, the neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood numbers, and the one statistic that misleads almost everybody.
Most Toronto condos do not cash flow at current rates. Here is the real cost stack, the costs investors leave out, where the arithmetic works best in Etobicoke, and when buying still makes sense.