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SIMCOE — Ontario Provincial Police in Simcoe say they’ve arrested 16 people and seized illegal cannabis valued at more than $55 million after a drug bust last month. Police say members of the OPP Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis Enforcement Team and others executed a warrant at a rural location on Highway 3 in Haldimand County […]

TORONTO — Ontario is taking a step toward planning new pipelines to bring Alberta oil and gas to the province for refining, issuing a request for proposals today for a feasibility study. It follows a memorandum of understanding last month between Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan to build new pipelines as well as rail lines to […]

TORONTO — A great shift is underway in Toronto months after the closures of several supervised consumption sites, as their users seek alternatives and drop-in centres see an alarming jump in overdoses. Some segments of the city’s homeless population have resettled near remaining consumption sites, but fluctuating intakes have been reported at different locations. The […]

Hamilton police say a 32-year-old man has been arrested in the death of an international student who was fatally struck by a stray bullet in April. Twenty-one-year-old Harsimrat Randhawa was waiting for a bus on the evening of April 17 when police say she was caught in the crossfire and fatally shot in the chest […]

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet today with three provincial Métis groups to discuss his government’s major projects legislation. The legislation allows cabinet to quickly grant federal approvals for big industrial projects that are deemed to be in the national interest by sidestepping environmental protections and other legislation. Carney is expected […]

TORONTO — There’s a scene in “Shook” in which the drama’s lead tells a Toronto hipster that he lives in Scarborough. Her response — “Oooh, Scarborough” — comes off as if he just name-dropped a war zone. “That literally happened to me,” says director and co-writer Amar Wala, who grew up in the multicultural east-Toronto […]

BRACEBRIDGE — Police say a man wanted for murder after three bodies were found in a burned-down Bracebridge, Ont., home has now been confirmed as one of the dead. Ontario Provincial Police say 29-year-old Mitchell Gray died inside the home due to smoke inhalation. Investigators have determined that Gray’s parents, the other two people found […]

An Ontario labour group says it is advocating for more robust worker protections amid growing health concerns over poor air quality as wildfire smoke blankets the province with increasing frequency. The Ontario Federation of Labour, which represents more than 55 unions across the province, says the push is part of a broader heat stress strategy […]

TORONTO — The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario has informed Fort Erie Racetrack that a race on Monday’s card is under review. In that race, 6-5 favourite Princess O Denmark had a decent lead at the top of the stretch but was beaten by three-quarters of a length at the wire. Jockey Kirk Johnson […]

Public health officials in London, Ont., have declared that an outbreak of legionnaires’ disease is over, but a search for the source of the bacteria continues after three people died and dozens were hospitalized over the course of a month. The Middlesex-London Health Unit says there were 70 confirmed cases of the respiratory illness in […]