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NANAIMO — Students at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, B.C., are busy in the kitchen assembling the world’s largest Nanaimo bar. The sweet treat will be unveiled to the public at noon on Saturday, and is expected to be 21.3 meters long, 0.9 meters wide and weigh nearly 500 kilograms. Aron Weber, chair of the […]

Bruce Davidson remembers the E. coli outbreak that ravaged his hometown 25 years ago as a “strange dream.” The hospital in the small Ontario community of Walkerton usually wasn’t busy but it suddenly got inundated with patients experiencing severe diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal pain. The first cases were reported on May 17, 2000. Soon, the […]

VICTORIA — British Columbia Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says the province is sending almost 100 wildland firefighters to Ontario, where fires have been threatening several communities near the Manitoba border. Parmar says the deployment comes after B.C. sent 42 firefighters to Manitoba, where a blaze in the Rural Municipality of Lac du Bonnet this week […]

TORONTO — An Ontario judge has ruled that repeated strip searches of teen girls accused in the fatal swarming of a homeless Toronto man were unconstitutional. Four of the eight girls accused in the attack on 59-year-old Kenneth Lee in downtown Toronto two years ago sought to have the charges against them stayed before their […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s budget says it is increasing funding for the autism program to $779 million this year, but advocates say it’s not yet clear exactly where that money will go. Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy’s budget, tabled Thursday, contains two lines on the Ontario Autism Program, including touting the new funding. Children, Community and Social […]

Three of the five hockey players accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a London, Ont., hotel room in 2018 spoke about the events of that night with an investigator hired by Hockey Canada, but those statements are not part of their criminal trial. Prosecutors wanted to use the interviews to cross-examine Michael McLeod, Dillon […]

WASAGA — Ontario announced today it will invest nearly $40 million to help revitalize Wasaga Beach. Premier Doug Ford says $25 million will go toward rebuilding the Nancy Island Historic Site. That site features an old museum that highlights the fight between the HMS Nancy that captured two U.S. schooners before being sunk during the […]

TORONTO — A teen girl who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a deadly group attack on a homeless man in Toronto has been sentenced to 15 months of probation, with the judge taking into account time she has already spent in custody and the “unlawful” strip searches she underwent. The girl entered a surprise plea […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s integrity commissioner says a former top staffer to Premier Doug Ford broke lobbying rules. Amin Massoudi now runs Atlas Strategic Advisors, but previously served as Ford’s principal secretary until 2022. Integrity Commissioner Cathryn Motherwell’s office posted a notice of non-compliance on its website this week, saying Massoudi failed to comply with lobbying […]

Jurors in the sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team have been discharged. Ontario Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia did not give jurors reasons for her decision. The trial began in late April and has heard evidence from several witnesses, including the complainant, who testified for nine days. Michael […]