Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Wildfires that have devastated communities in northern Ontario are also causing health concerns and event cancellations across southern parts of the province as thick smoke plumes linger in the sky for another day. Toronto is still not feeling any relief after wildfire smoke turned the city’s skyline orange on Wednesday, prompting some residents […]

Ontario is requesting assistance from the federal government to get ready to evacuate communities across the north by aircraft as dozens of forest fires burn out of control. Ontario Emergency Preparedness Minister Jill Dunlop says in a letter to federal Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski that 15 communities in the north have already started evacuations […]

TORONTO — Many regions of Ontario have traded heat warnings for air quality warnings as gritty, dusty wildfire smoke permeates the skies. Environment Canada has lifted many of the heat warnings spanning the province, though hot weather is expected to linger in some areas. Air quality warnings are now in place from Thunder Bay to […]

Winds out of the northwest could fan the flames of dozens of forest fires that have already devastated communities in northern Ontario. Environment Canada says the community of Armstrong can expect widespread smoke with wind gusts of up to 40 kilometres per hour for most of today. The fires have prompted evacuation orders for several […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s colleges and universities ministry has disqualified students at five private career colleges from receiving student assistance loans this coming year, after raising concerns with some of the schools’ course enrolment practices. The move comes as career college students across the province are barred from accessing grants through the Ontario Student Assistance Program, […]

TORONTO — Jim Corrigall, the standout Canadian defensive lineman who spurned the NFL for a career with the Toronto Argonauts, has died. He was 80. Kent State, Corrigall’s alma mater, announced his passing Wednesday. The university didn’t divulge the cause of death but in 2019 Corrigall and his daughter, Amy Corrigall Jones, told the Akron […]

Hamilton city councillors have rejected a temporary pause on new data centres. The 10-6 vote came after councillors emerged from a lengthy closed-door session with the city’s legal team who advised a data centre project led by McMaster University would be exempt under the proposed pause. Hamilton would have been the first city in Canada […]

MISSISSAUGA — Provincial police say two people are dead and three injured after a crash on Highway 401 in Mississauga. The crash occurred in the eastbound express lanes of the highway near Dixie Road shortly before 9 a.m. Wednesday. Police say a 53-year-old woman and an 80-year-old man, both from Cambridge, Ont., were pronounced dead […]

Hamilton city councillors have rejected a temporary pause on new data centres. The 10-6 vote against the proposed one-year pause comes as local lawmakers across Canada wrestle with the noise, energy and water concerns around a new wave of data centres powering the boom in artificial intelligence. If the data centre moratorium had been approved, […]

Forest fires in northwestern Ontario have devastated several communities, forcing widespread evacuations and destroying homes and buildings in one First Nation as harrowing wildfire videos and images emerge on social media. The fires have prompted evacuation orders for several communities, including Armstrong, Lac La Croix First Nation, Collins First Nation, Whitesand First Nation, Gull Bay […]