London bylaws

City councillors enthusiastically endorsed a directive calling for the city to take a more active role in preventing so-called "renovictions" and other bad-faith rental evictions. Read More

Starting this year, London has overhauled the way it delivers subsidized veterinary services such as spaying, neutering and microchipping. Individual treatments are being discontinued in favour of an all-in-one approach. Reporter Jack Moulton spoke to a city bylaw official to get some more information. Read More

Noise-busters by night, parking scofflaw enforcers by day. Read More

Two councillors are pushing for a bylaw amendment to ban graphic anti-abortion images from display on London streets, building off a city hall crackdown targeting flyers last year. Read More

A London reptile zoo, under fire from city hall for displaying exotic animals without city council approval, will make its case in court at a hearing set for early next year. Read More

City politicians are backing a call to increase the number of units in a home that can be rented in a bid to ease London’s housing crunch. Read More

A pilot project that sends city inspectors to large apartment buildings has led to 161 complaints, London city hall's bylaw boss says. Read More

Having received complaints of venomous snakes and banned reptiles, city hall officials say they're investigating the opening of the indoor zoo Reptilia in a London mall. Read More

A crackdown on unlicensed short-term rentals in London has resulted in warnings against the owners of more than 350 properties, hundreds of which will have to stop operating as short-term accommodations, city hall says. Read More

A python barred from London under city hall's exotic animals bylaw is now on display at Reptilia, the zoo opening inside Westmount mall – a move that flouts a recent council decision to uphold the ban. Read More

Bylaw and fire inspectors will be checking three apartment buildings in London next week at the launch of a pilot project set up to answer concerns from tenants, advocacy groups and politicians. Read More

London salvage yard owner Charlie Gelinas vowed he would clear his name after getting ensnared in a bylaw blitz involving city workers posing as metal-selling homeless people three years ago. Read More