Author: The Canadian Press
Indigenous leaders in northern Ontario are calling on politicians to take action against illegal drugs and provide more resources to communities after an alleged drug-related shooting in a First Nation left one person dead and another injured. Ontario Provincial Police issued a shelter-in-place order early Wednesday morning for residents in the area of Ginoogaming First […]
TORONTO — Ontario’s measles outbreak, which sickened more than 2,300 people over the course of nearly a year, highlighted the consequences of declining vaccination rates and led to the death of a newborn, has been declared over. Public Health Ontario and the province’s top doctor said Thursday the outbreak ended on Monday because it had […]
The Toronto Blue Jays are set for a border showdown in the American League Championship Series as they await the winner of the Detroit Tigers and Seattle Mariners. The Tigers and Mariners meet in Game 5 of their AL Division Series on Friday in Seattle, with the winner heading to Toronto for Game 1 of […]
Police say a 23-year-old man has been charged with murder after a man was killed in an unprovoked attack outside his home north of Toronto. York Regional Police say they responded to an assault Wednesday evening in Richmond Hill, Ont., and found a man with serious injuries. The man was taken to hospital, where he […]
The union representing about 10,000 part-time support workers at Ontario’s public colleges will hold a strike vote next week amid an ongoing strike by full-time support staff. Noor Askandar, chair of the college part-time support bargaining team at the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, says part-time workers at the 24 colleges have been working under […]
Provincial police say they’ve lifted a shelter-in-place order in a northern Ontario First Nation, after a two-day search for two suspects in an incident that left one person dead and another injured. Police issued the emergency alert early Wednesday morning for residents in the area of Ginoogaming First Nation, saying the two suspects were believed […]
TORONTO — A painting of a sunny day in Morocco by former British prime minister Winston Churchill, an 1894 depiction of downtown Toronto by Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith and several pieces from one of Toronto’s founders are among the works Hudson’s Bay is set to auction off next month. All three are contained in a catalogue […]
TORONTO — Toronto police say two people have been fined and charged for flying drones over the Rogers Centre during the Blue Jays post-season baseball games. Police say the charges were laid under Canadian Aviation Regulations. Police say they used “specialized drone detection technology” to spot and intercept three unauthorized drone flights over the stadium […]
TORONTO — A weekly Public Health Ontario epidemiology report says the measles outbreak that began in the province almost a year ago is over. The report says Ontario declared the end of the outbreak on Monday using national guidance that says an outbreak is complete 46 days after the onset of a rash in the […]
The family of a Muslim hotel worker seriously injured in an alleged hate-motivated assault says the attack in Markham, Ont., has left them fearful as the National Council of Canadian Muslims warns of a sharp increase in hate crimes against the community. Steven Zhou, a spokesperson for the advocacy group, says the Sept. 28 attack […]