Vacant Property

• Winnipeg re-evaluating fees, options for derelict buildings amid growing challenges

  Vacant or abandoned buildings in Winnipeg are an issue emergency responders and city crews have spent years trying to get under control, but it continues to get worse.

  Crime

  Aug 25, 2022
  
• Derelict buildings in Winnipeg pose major risks to communities, first responders

  Vacant and derelict buildings are taking over streets and in some neighbourhoods are creating serious issues. They've become shelters for the homeless and targets for arsonists.

  Crime

  Aug 24, 2022
  
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• Winnipeg on track to see 80% rise in vacant building fires, according to city numbers

  Numbers from the City of Winnipeg show there have been 133 vacant building fires so far this year, up from 82 in all of 2020.

  Crime

  Oct 27, 2021
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• New Glasgow police investigating Wednesday morning arson

  Police say there has been a number of arsons at vacant buildings in the New Glasgow area in the last month.

  Canada

  Jul 7, 2021
• Cause deemed undetermined in blaze at vacant Richmond Street home: London fire officials

  Crews responded to the scene at 1240 Richmond St., just north of Raymond Avenue and the Western University Gates, around 6 a.m. Monday.

  Jul 16, 2020
• City of Kingston looking to cut vacancy tax rebate

  A long-standing program that offers tax rebates to owners of vacant commercial properties in Kingston could be axed.

  Canada

  Feb 20, 2019
• Organization turning vacant Toronto properties into mobile urban farms

  Rachel Kimel and Deena DelZotto run the Bowery Project, an organization that takes vacant lots in downtown Toronto and transforming the properties into mobile urban farms.

  Jul 24, 2017
• Home-made device found at Princess Ave. home deemed not explosive

  London police say a device found inside a vacant home Tuesday morning wasn't explosive, after it was detonated by a robot.

  Crime

  Apr 11, 2017