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TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford wants municipalities to get rid of automated speed cameras — or else he will. The City of Toronto says several automated speed cameras were cut down or vandalized in recent days, part of an ongoing trend. Ford calls the cameras nothing more than a cash grab for the city. […]

The mayor of Barrie, Ont., has declared a state of emergency over homeless encampments in the city, citing concerns about public safety as a justification for the decision. Alex Nuttall says while he understands homelessness is a complex issue, encampments have resulted in health and safety issues for the community as well as damage to […]

Even when schools across Canada shifted to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, Rob Hammond’s autistic daughter attended in-person classes in their Ontario cottage country town. The Parry Sound, Ont., school had made learning spaces available for students with special needs so they could learn and socialize with their classmates and teachers. Now in Grade […]

TORONTO — Police in Toronto say they’ve arrested a man in a homicide case where a woman was found injured in a vehicle last week and died. Investigators have said they responded to a medical call in the Glenlake Ave. and High Park Ave. area late Friday afternoon, and found 21-year-old Serenity Brown inside a […]

TORONTO — The expenses of trustees at several Ontario school boards are under the education minister’s microscope, with claims for a $145 Apple watch band and a $15 milkshake providing particular fodder for a board shakeup that’s likely far from over. The Toronto Catholic District School Board is one of five boards under government supervision […]

LAS VEGAS — Matthew Knies is preparing for his third NHL training camp. A familiar face won’t be there when the Maple Leafs hit the ice later this month. Mitch Marner bolted for the Vegas Golden Knights in dramatic fashion this summer after nine headline-grabbing — and sometimes tumultuous — seasons in Toronto. Selected fourth […]

TORONTO — Toronto FC has loaned little-used South African forward Cassius Mailula to Belgium’s KV Kortrijk with an option to make the move a permanent transfer when the loan ends on June 30. It’s a second loan spell for the 24-year-old Mailula, who was sent to Morocco’s Wydad Athletic Club in August 2024. Mailula has […]

A St. Maarten-based live streamer and ex-airplane mechanic says he’s never witnessed something as disruptive as the hard landing of a WestJet plane that shut down the runway at the Caribbean island’s iconic airport. Jacco Steffens, co-founder of content and streaming website SHOWME Caribbean, said he was remotely operating a web camera pointed at St. […]

TORONTO — The supervisors appointed by Ontario’s education minister to take control of several school boards are poring over the expenses of trustees and some are finding what the minister describes as questionable receipts. Paul Calandra told radio station NewsTalk1010 recently that expenses filed by Toronto Catholic District School Board Chair Markus de Domenico are […]

RCMP say a man from Thunder Bay, Ont., was arrested after allegedly attempting to smuggle suspected methamphetamine that was mailed from the United States. The Mounties say the package addressed to the man’s residence contained about 140 grams of suspected meth and was seized by the Canada Border Services Agency at a commercial cargo processing […]