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CLOSER LOOK: Meet the king of Ontario ‘renovictions’

In this new nightly feature, Village Media journalists take a deeper dive into important stories making headlines around the province
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Every day, our local journalists tackle the stories that matter most: the ones that impact your life.

In cities and towns across the province — as well as at Queen’s Park and on Parliament Hill — our dogged reporters chase down the answers you need to know. 

In this new nightly segment — ‘Closer Look’ — Village Media’s Scott Sexsmith sits down with one of our journalists to explore the details of an important story they are covering.

These conversations are designed to help you better understand how our reporters gather the information that lands in your local news feed.

On tonight’s episode: the most prolific “renovictor” in Ontario. 

It’s happening more and more across the province: landlords evicting longtime tenants in order to renovate the property, then renting it to someone else at a much higher price. A tenant advocacy group recently named Michael Klein, a Toronto real estate investor, as Ontario’s top renovictor.

Two of our reporters — Taylor Pace of GuelphToday and Joe McGinty of CambridgeToday — dug even deeper into Klein’s business dealings for this investigative feature: ‘How is this legal?’ Meet the king of Ontario renovictions

You can read their full story HERE.

Stay tuned for more episodes of ‘Closer Look’ every weeknight at 7 p.m.