Author: The Canadian Press

An exchange of gunfire near a synagogue in Belleville, Ont., left a police officer and a man seriously injured on Sunday night, Ontario’s police watchdog said as it investigates the shooting. The Special Investigations Unit said the gunfire exchange involved a Belleville police officer and a 29-year-old man who was armed with a shotgun. The […]

TORONTO — Ontario is introducing standardized entry-level training for commercial truck drivers. The changes come after a scathing auditor general report that showed the province was not effectively monitoring commercial truck driver training and licensing regimes. Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria says the province is meeting one of the recommendations from the auditor general. He says […]

TORONTO — A third Ontario education union has set a strike vote for November. About 57,000 education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees’ Ontario School Board Council of Unions branch will be able to vote on whether to give their union a strike mandate. Their vote is set to take place between […]

Ontario’s police watchdog is expected to provide an update this morning following an exchange of gunfire near a synagogue in Belleville, Ont., that left a man and a police officer injured on Sunday night. The Special Investigations Unit says it’s investigating after the exchange of gunfire near the Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville. The […]

An Ontario nuclear plant is beginning a massive refurbishment project today, as Premier Doug Ford’s government looks to lean heavily on nuclear energy to serve the province’s growing electricity needs. Four reactors at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station are starting to come off-line so they can be refurbished at an estimated cost of $26.8 billion, with […]

A peaceful Sunday night in Belleville, Ontario, was shattered by reports of multiple gunshots, followed by local police issuing a tight-lipped statement. The Belleville Police Service posted a media release on Facebook saying that around 7:10 p.m., near Bleecker Avenue and Victoria Avenue, in a mostly residential area, an officer encountered an individual. They say […]

Violent coyote encounters across the Greater Toronto Area have left some residents on edge and sparked debate among wildlife experts on municipalities’ responses to aggressive animals. Increased coyote sightings and a string of attacks on children in the Toronto area in recent months raised alarms and questions about encounters with the wild canines. In July, […]

TORONTO — Chad Kelly and the Toronto Argonauts are playoff bound. Kelly threw two touchdown passes as Toronto held on for a 24-19 win over the Edmonton Elks on Saturday afternoon. The Argonauts clinched a post-season berth and home playoff game. Edmonton (10-4) threatened to take the late lead, driving to the Toronto 21-yard line. […]

TORONTO — Cuban-Canadian director Rodrigo Barriuso says he decided years ago he needed to draw attention to the difficulties some LGBTQ+ residents face as they enter long-term care homes, including examples he found “devastating and enraging.” He was seeing a number of media reports abroad about cases of long-term care homes that weren’t equipped to […]

TORONTO — The 51st Toronto International Film Festival arrived with tensions flaring between Canada and the United States, concerns about artificial intelligence in filmmaking and a massive evolution in how the arts organization courts industry members. With the festival set to wind up Sunday, here’s a look at how some aspects of it fared. HITS […]