WATCHDOG: Clean up or pay up: Ontario property owners owe nearly $1 million in fines

Ruth Uranga stands outside her northwest Ontario property, which has accumulated $74,250 in fines since November 2019. (ANGELINA KATSANIS/The Enterprise)

ONTARIO - Day by day for months, city fines mounted on Ruth Uranga’s northwest Ontario property.

Ontario officials wanted her family home cleaned up, hoping the penalties would force her to act.

But the city wants $74,250 in civil . . .

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