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Every day, our local journalists tackle the stories that matter most: the ones that impact your day-to-day life.

In communities across the province — as well at Queen’s Park and on Parliament Hill — our on-the-ground reporters and editors 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 an important story they are covering.
These interviews 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 rent 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.

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