Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Ontario’s housing minister says the province has approved a plan for Toronto to allow higher and denser buildings near transit stations. Rob Flack says the changes to Toronto’s official plan will allow for 1.5 million more homes throughout the city over the next 25 years. He says that having more people living near […]

Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown says he plans to follow the province’s lead and require city employees to return to in-office work full time next year. The provincial government announced Thursday that public servants will be required to be in the office four days a week beginning Oct. 20, and ramp up to five days a […]

Hamilton police say they’ve charged one of their officers with assault and mischief in what they describe as a “historic domestic incident.” Police say the 46-year-old officer has been with the force for 17 years. They say he’s been charged with assault and mischief under $5,000. Police did not provide further details on the alleged […]

TORONTO — The CFL will make way for the FIFA World Cup next summer. Both the Toronto Argonauts and B.C. Lions will play home games away from their respective venues during the World Cup, which will be held from June 11 to July 19 with contests in Canada, Mexico and the United States. Vancouver and […]

LAKESHORE, ONT. — A teen girl is dead and another was critically injured after a watercraft collision on a southern Ontario lake. Ontario Provincial Police say they responded to a collision on Thursday afternoon involving a single personal watercraft on Lake St. Clair. OPP say it took place near Couture Beach in the Municipality of […]

BARRIE — Police north of Toronto have arrested a man after they say two people were killed and dismembered. Barrie police say they began an investigation earlier this year after a report of a missing person. They say officers searched several locations including a property in Huntsville, Ont., a residence in North Simcoe County and […]

TORONTO — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a go-ahead two-run homer and Max Scherzer outduelled fellow starter Matthew Boyd as the Toronto Blue Jays edged the Chicago Cubs 2-1 on Thursday afternoon. With Davis Schneider aboard after a leadoff walk in the seventh inning, Guerrero belted an 0-2 curveball that barely cleared the wall in left-centre […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say they’ve made four more arrests and laid 88 more charges in an ongoing investigation into a gunfight last November. Police say plainclothes officers were conducting an unrelated investigation on Queen Street West on Nov. 11 when three people arrived in a stolen vehicle and fired shots at a building being […]

TORONTO — Health officials in Ontario are reporting just three new measles cases over the past week, all of them in the province’s southwest region. Public Health Ontario says that brings the province’s total case count to 2,362 measles cases since an outbreak began in October. One case previously reported in Sudbury’s public health unit […]

A demonstration by more than a dozen members of the union representing Air Canada’s flight attendants prompted the airline to shut down a press conference on Thursday as tensions between the two sides continue to mount ahead of a weekend work stoppage. Dozens of flights were expected to be cancelled by the end of Thursday […]