Author: The Canadian Press

Rural and northern Ontario hospitals are anxiously awaiting word from the provincial government on a program that helps them keep emergency rooms open, after it ended last month. Health Minister Sylvia Jones’ office has said it is working on a permanent solution after the temporary program expired, but in the meantime the people who work […]

About 55,000 Ontarians are without power Monday as Hydro One’s 4,800 crew members make efforts to get the lights back on after last week’s ice storm. The provincial utility said Sunday morning that the number of customers had dropped to 69,000 as the utility made progress on the prolonged ice storm outages, but that number […]

FORT LAUDERDALE — Lionel Messi’s goal in first-half stoppage time lifted Inter Miami CF into a 1-1 draw with Toronto FC in an entertaining MLS game Sunday. Toronto (0-4-3) has yet to win this season but, after four straight losses, is showing real signs of life with Sunday’s performance and last week’s scoreless draw with […]

BRAMPTON — Peel police say they have charged a youth in relation to multiple reports of sexual assaults and incident acts in Brampton, Ont. Police say they received several complaints going back to December about a young male who was allegedly exposing himself and sexually assaulting women around Steeles Avenue and Financial Drive in Brampton. […]

About 80,000 Ontarians are without power Sunday as Hyrdo One’s efforts to get the lights back on after last week’s ice storm. Hydro One said Sunday morning that the number of customers had dropped to 69,000 as the utility made progress on the prolonged ice storm outages, but that number of outages grew to over […]

OTTAWA — Ottawa police have charged a 61-year-old man with murder after a woman was found dead inside a home in the suburb of Barrhaven. Police identified the woman as 61-year-old Brenda Rus, who shares a last name with the accused. They described the case as a femicide, understood as the intentional killing of a […]

Hydro One says the number of customers without power has dropped to 69,000 as the utility makes progress on the prolonged ice storm outages. The day’s total is down by about 33,000 from Saturday. The provincial utility says weather is favourable and its helicopters and drones are back in the air to help survey the […]

CLARENCE-ROCKLAND — Ontario Provincial Police say an 83-year-old has been charged with second-degree murder after a person was killed in a small city east of Ottawa. Police say officers were called to a home on Lalonde Street in Clarence-Rockland on Friday shortly before 3 p.m. They say one person was arrested and one person was […]

OTTAWA — Ottawa police say its homicide unit is investigating after a woman was found dead inside a home in the suburb of Barrhaven. Police described the investigation as a femicide, a term used for the killing of a woman often because of her gender. They say a man has been arrested and remains in […]

For more than a century, Oshawa, Ont., has been the city of autoworkers. The decades-old Canadian Automotive Museum in the downtown core, murals depicting locally made vehicles and the city’s beloved Oshawa Generals hockey team, named after one of the auto giants, are all symbols of that glorious — and often treacherous — history. The […]