Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Ontario is embedding in legislation a policy that would give priority for medical residency positions to applicants with a connection to the province. The health ministry made headlines last week for rescinding a nearly identical policy amid a court case over it, but they actually withdrew the policy in order to legislate it. […]

THUNDER BAY — Provincial police say three people have died after a crash involving two semis that has shut down a large stretch of a northern Ontario highway. Police say they were called early Thursday to an area of Highway 17 near Raith, northwest of Thunder Bay. OPP say two transport trucks collided and caused […]

TORONTO — Being over six-foot-seven would be considered tall in most walks of life, but in the NBA, that makes you an undersized forward. That will be Toronto Raptors’ challenge in their first-round playoff series against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Although seven-foot Jakob Poeltl, six-foot-nine Sandro Mamukelashvili and six-foot-seven Collin Murray-Boyles aren’t short by anyone’s definition, […]

TORONTO — Choice Properties REIT and KingSett Capital have signed a deal worth more than $9 billion to buy First Capital REIT and split up the trust’s shopping centre-focused real estate portfolio. The cash-and-unit deal, valued at about $9.4 billion including debt, will see the two firms divvy up retail-focused spaces across 136 neighbourhoods in […]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford has promised that no more inmates will be improperly released from jail. Ford and Solicitor General Michael Kerzner have both admitted that jails and courts have released inmates by mistake. Global News discovered through a freedom-of-information request that more than 150 inmates were improperly released from the province’s jails […]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford is nixing the idea of banning so-called surveillance pricing on groceries, as Manitoba has proposed. Ford says today that he believes in a free-market, capitalist society. The Manitoba government is moving to ban what it calls “predatory pricing” on groceries, though the issue hasn’t been seen locally, after an […]

TORONTO — WISE Trust Pension Plan says it earned a net return of 8.1 per cent for 2025. It says the result helped boost its net assets under management to $4.8 billion at the end of last year. WISE Trust administers the WSIB Employees’ pension plan for more than 10,000 workplace safety and insurance workers […]

The man accused of breaking into a Lindsay, Ont., apartment last year in a case that became a political flashpoint over Canadians’ rights to defend their homes has pleaded guilty. Michael Kyle Breen admitted in court today to breaking and entering and failing to comply with a probation order in the Aug. 18, 2025 incident. […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s police watchdog has charged a Toronto police officer with manslaughter after a man was fatally shot in a Niagara Falls hotel last year. The Special Investigations Unit says it has reasonable grounds to believe that Const. Andrew Lawson committed a criminal offence in the July 30, 2025 shooting. The SIU says a […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s premier and solicitor general have vowed to figure out how the province’s jails improperly released more than 100 inmates over several years. Premier Doug Ford says the situation is unacceptable and he will get to the bottom of what happened. Global News unearthed government documents through freedom of information laws that show […]