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TORONTO — Ontario Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria vows to forge ahead on expanding Toronto’s island airport despite the federal government’s rejection of the plan. Sarkaria says the province was disappointed by the federal government’s decision to nix Premier Doug Ford’s proposed expansion of the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport to allow jets to land and […]

Police west of Toronto say nine suspects have been charged in an investigation into the alleged human trafficking and sexual exploitation of at least a dozen people. Halton regional police say they started investigating after a woman came forward with allegations in September of last year. Supt. Dave Costantini says the force worked with other […]

TORONTO — Two Ontario residents face charges after a Competition Bureau probe found they allegedly misled Canadians into thinking they were dealing directly with the federal government’s passport service. York Regional Police charged John Jesse Breslin and Phoebe Hui Ting Wong last week with fraud over $5,000 and possessing proceeds of a crime. A release […]

A Durham Region police deputy chief will retire after the police board said Monday that an investigation by a watchdog agency found he committed misconduct by using a “racially inappropriate” term. The Durham Regional Police Service Board said it has agreed with deputy chief Chris Kirkpatrick that their “employment relationship be concluded.” In a statement […]

TORONTO — Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow wants the land from the city’s islands back. The mayor says the Ontario government should return lands it recently expropriated from the city through new legislation as it pushed an expansion to allow jets to land and take off from Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport. On Friday, federal Transportation […]

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he is appalled that two locations of a Jewish-owned bakery chain, places he called “fixtures of Toronto’s Jewish community,” were damaged over the weekend. Carney said in a social media post that Jewish Canadians should be able to “live, work and worship free from fear, intimidation and hate,” and his […]

TORONTO — The U.S. consulate in Toronto was shot at early Monday morning in the second such incident this year, prompting a brief high-speed police chase of the suspect vehicle before the pursuit was called off for safety reasons. No injuries were reported but Toronto police and Mayor Olivia Chow called it a brazen attack […]

A Durham Regional police deputy chief will retire after the police board says an investigation by a watchdog agency found he committed misconduct. The Durham Regional Police Service Board says it has agreed with deputy chief Chris Kirkpatrick that “their employment relationship be concluded.” In a statement posted on social media this morning, the board […]

The Gordie Howe International Bridge has opened to motorists after months of controversy over financial aspects of the project. Officials announced in a post on social media that the Howe family crossed first, in honour of the bridge’s Canadian-American hockey namesake. Minutes later, another post marked the crossing of the first commercial truck, a vehicle […]

TORONTO — Police say the U.S. consulate in Toronto was shot at early this morning, a few months after the same building was targeted by gunfire. They say officers in the area heard a shot near the consulate on University Avenue at 4:46 a.m., and found a shell casing outside the building. Police say there […]