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The man behind a mass stabbing in a University of Waterloo gender studies class will have to stay behind bars longer after an Ontario judge recalculated how much to deduct for the time he had already spent in custody. Geovanny Villalba-Aleman was sentenced last month to 11 years in prison for what Ontario Court Justice […]

TORONTO — Ontario is reporting 155 new measles cases over the last week, pushing the province’s case count to 816 since an outbreak began in the fall. The number of new cases has increased again after a few weeks of appearing to stabilize in the 100-per-week range, which public health physicians had taken as a […]

TORONTO — Toronto paramedics say one adult is dead and two others are injured after a fire broke out in Little Italy. Toronto fire officials say crews responded around 10:20 a.m. to reports of a fire at a three-storey building on College Street at Manning Avenue. Fire officials say crews pulled three people from the […]

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has confirmed an order for new first-degree murder trials for an Ontario woman and three others who were convicted in an attack on her parents. Jennifer Pan was sentenced in 2015 to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years for first-degree murder, and life […]

TORONTO — Ontario is looking for up to 80 new or expanded primary care teams to serve 300,000 patients, as it plans to build a system that automatically attaches people to a family doctor or nurse practitioner team based on their postal code. Health Minister Sylvia Jones says the province is launching a call for […]

TORONTO — Scottie Barnes had a double-double and the Raptors routed the Charlotte Hornets 126-96 on Wednesday as Toronto had its starters play limited minutes. Barnes finished with 17 points, 11 rebounds and five assists in just 20 minutes of play in Toronto’s (30-50) final home game of the season. RJ Barrett of Mississauga, Ont., […]

OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney took his promise of making Canada an “energy superpower” to the heart of Canada’s oil industry Wednesday, becoming the second party leader in three days to promise to speed up the review process to greenlight major national energy projects. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made a one-project, one-review promise at […]

A majority of Proline bettors saw the Florida Gators capturing their third NCAA men’s basketball championship. The Gators earned a 65-63 win over Houston on Monday night. Fifty-two per cent of bettors backed Florida’s championship win while 64 per cent took the winners on the spread at -1.5 but only 33 per cent of players […]

The trial of two people accused in the shooting death of an OPP officer has heard that the car in a ditch at the site of the alleged murder was stolen the previous day. Ontario Provincial Police Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala was shot on Dec. 27, 2022, while responding to a vehicle in the ditch west […]

Some 17,000 customers are still without electricity more than a week after a powerful spring storm encrusted parts of central and eastern Ontario with ice. Hydro One’s outage map shows most of those are in the Peterborough and Georgian Bay areas, both hard hit by the March 30 ice storm. The utility says more than […]