Eastern Ontario

TVO.org speaks with immigration-services providers in Belleville, Brockville, and Kingston about the issues that should be top of mind during the federal-election campaign.

In just four years, a multibillion-dollar developer has demolished dozens of homes and evicted hundreds of residents in Ottawa’s Herongate neighbourhood. Now, community members are trying to put the company — and gentrification itself — on trial.

After the sudden closure of a shelter, tents sprang up in parks across the city. Many locals want them gone — while experts say they’re a symptom of a larger problem

The number of new for-sale listings is falling. The rental-vacancy rate is the lowest in Ontario. But will boosting the supply be enough?  

Prices are rising. Houses and apartments are becoming short-term rentals. Here’s why it’s getting harder to find a place to live in the county — and what locals are doing about it.

Kolby Parks lies down on a board and flies down streets at speeds of up to 154 kilometres an hour. We visit him in Picton to find out why.

Across the province, turtle populations are threatened by car accidents and habitat loss. The Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre is working to save them — and it wants you to help save them, too.

The fatal brain disease has been infecting deer across North America. TVO.org speaks with Keith Munro, wildlife biologist for Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, about what it is and how to fight it.

Nearly a decade after the farm at Kingston’s Collins Bay Institution closed, a new one is set to open — but not all those who fought for it are celebrating.  

When David and Sharon Cation bought a 270-hectare parcel near Coboconk, they knew they wanted to protect it. So they donated it to a land trust and turned it into a wildlife preserve.

In the green-burial section of Glenwood Cemetery, in Picton, there’s no steel, no concrete, and no formaldehyde — just bodies, sometimes blankets, and earth

As the gig economy expands, employer-provided dental plans are getting rarer — and that’s bad news for millennial dental health.

TVO.org talks to Dan Haley, founder of Peterborough’s Haley House, about the special needs of elderly prisoners — and how to help them die with dignity.

The Tory government is planning to change the way victims are assessed and financially compensated — and critics are worried that vulnerable people will suffer.  

Once a month, scientists gather at a local pub to talk about their findings and their work — and everyone’s invited. It’s all part of an effort to break down barriers between experts and the public.

In the mid-1840s, tens of thousands of Irish immigrants arrived in the Province of Canada, desperate to find a home. At the Great Famine Voices Roadshow, you’ll hear their stories.

For this Indigenous community, goat farming offers the potential for profit — and a return to traditional practices.