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Peel Regional Police say a teacher is facing charges following allegations of child abuse at a Mississauga, Ont., public school. Police say they launched an investigation in May after the teacher allegedly physically moved four students into a room and forcibly confined them, preventing them from leaving. Police say the 36-year-old male teacher faces four […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say they have identified a suspect in a fatal stabbing on Thursday night in the city’s east end. Police say they responded to an altercation in the Danforth Avenue and Coxwell Avenue area between two men at about 11 p.m. They say a 36-year old man with stab wounds was taken […]

ST. THOMAS — Health-care workers battling measles in southern Ontario say they think about the outbreak from the moment they wake until the moment they sleep. They say treating and tamping down the surge of a disease most have never seen in their lifetime is constant. Some have even been infected by patients who unwittingly […]

Calling it a “huge huge moment” for the franchise, the New York Red Bulls introduced former Toronto FC captain Michael Bradley as coach of its reserve side Thursday. Bradley, 37, succeeds Ibrahim Sekagya, who was promoted to a full-time assistant coach with the first team after Vedad Ibisevic left the club earlier in the month. […]

The Toronto Sceptres and Montréal Victoire continued to round out their rosters Thursday ahead of the upcoming Professional Women’s Hockey League draft. The Sceptres signed defender Kali Flanagan to a one-year contract extension, while the Victoire re-signed forward Catherine Dubois through the 2025-26 season. The 29-year-old Flanagan from Burlington, Mass., had three goals and four […]

The Ontario government says it’s introducing two financial assistance programs to help municipalities and businesses recover from a severe March ice storm. The storm in late March left nearly 400,000 homes and businesses with power outages and damaged property as freezing rain covered parts of Ontario in layers of ice. The province says it will […]

TORONTO — Chad Kelly will have plenty of company on the Toronto Argonauts sideline Friday night. Kelly will miss a third straight start when Toronto (0-2) hosts the Saskatchewan Roughriders (2-0). The 2023 CFL outstanding player continues to recover from a leg injury suffered in last year’s East Division final. Ditto for receiver/returner Janarion Grant […]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford has apologized for saying First Nations should not keep coming “hat in hand” to the government if they say no to mining projects, a comment many First Nation leaders called racist. Ford delivered that apology in a meeting at Queen’s Park to several dozen chiefs who are part of […]

TORONTO — A northern Ontario region that saw its first measles infection in April is now seeing dozens of new cases for the third week in a row. Public Health Ontario is reporting 96 new measles cases in the province over the past week, bringing the total number to 2,179 since an outbreak began in […]

The Toronto Sceptres have signed defender Kali Flanagan to a one-year contract extension, the Professional Women’s Hockey League team announced Thursday. The 29-year-old from Burlington, Mass., had three goals and four assists in 30 games with the Sceptres this past season and was second on the team in time on ice with over 647 minutes […]