Author: The Canadian Press

Ontario’s police watchdog says a provincial police officer was arrested and charged with sexual assault, a day after another officer with the same detachment was charged with similar offences. The Special Investigations Unit says the alleged assault on a woman happened in December of 2025 in the Township of Tay and Ontario Provincial Police reported […]

Ontario is spending $10 million on six programs to give people training in the skilled trades as part of its Skills Development Fund. The fund gained notoriety after the province’s auditor general found last year that the way the government had been selecting successful applications and disbursing money from the $2.5-billion fund was not fair, […]

TORONTO — Ontario will soon be putting out a call for proposals to create or expand 78 primary care teams, as it works toward a goal of attaching all Ontarians to primary care by 2029. Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced today that 437,000 people have been connected to primary care since the government’s plan launched […]

The Canadian Real Estate Association says home sales in July were down compared with a year ago, but edged slightly higher month-over-month. The organization said Tuesday home sales last month totalled 43,578, down 5.3 per cent from the previous year. On a seasonally adjusted basis, activity was up 0.5 per cent compared with June this […]

TORONTO — The Crown is appealing a rare post-verdict mistrial declared last month in Frank Stronach’s sexual assault conviction. The billionaire businessman was found guilty in June of sexual assault and the historical offence of indecent assault related to separate allegations brought by two of the women in his Toronto trial. The mistrial on the […]

STELLARTON — Sobeys parent company Empire Co. Ltd. says it is buying nine Morelli’s pharmacies in Ontario that are already situated within some Longo’s grocery stores. It says each of those pharmacies will be integrated into Sobeys National Pharmacy operations and will be rebranded as a Longo’s Pharmacy. All nine pharmacies are located in the […]

RICHMOND HILL — York regional police say a 30-year-old man has been charged in two sexual assaults on youth victims that occurred days apart in Richmond Hill. Police say the first incident was on Aug. 12, when the man approached a female victim on a hiking trail, covered her mouth and sexually assaulted her. They […]

EDMONTON — Anna Huang’s CPKC Women’s Open debut was a turning point in her golf career. She missed the cut last year in Mississauga, Ont., as a 16-year-old. “I wasn’t really sure what I was doing with my life to be honest,” Huang recalled. “I wasn’t playing very well at that time. I’d missed four […]

TORONTO — The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Criminal Lawyers’ Association are challenging the constitutionality of a new cash bail system in Ontario. New rules first announced last fall by Premier Doug Ford’s government that take effect this week require people accused of a crime and granted bail to provide a cash security deposit […]

TORONTO — The post-season hangover lasted a lot longer than Toronto Blue Jays fans expected this year. A slow start coupled with mid-season struggles nearly derailed the 2026 campaign for Canada’s lone big-league team. However, a strong run of form after the recent trade deadline has lifted Toronto back into the playoff race. With interest […]