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Several Ontario municipalities are pushing back on Premier Doug Ford’s planned speed camera ban, urging him to tweak the program instead of outright cancelling it — but if he forges ahead, they say the province should foot the bill. Ford has announced that his government will introduce legislation this month to prohibit the use of […]

TORONTO — Every time Jason Miles walked out of prison, he would be bigger, stronger and meaner. Behind bars, he lifted weights all day and made connections that led him to commit more dangerous crimes for more money. The 44-year-old Toronto man said his lengthy rap sheet included fights, stabbings and car thefts. He became […]

OTTAWA — Ottawa’s fiscal watchdog is reporting significant progress in closing Canada’s housing affordability gap — but the picture looks very different across the country. Interim Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques put out an updated housing report Thursday. The report gauges affordability based on the gap between average home prices and what the typical household […]

OAKVILLE — A cinema west of Toronto says it is cancelling screenings of South Asian films after an arson attempt and a shooting on its property in the past week. Film.Ca Cinemas says both incidents at its Oakville, Ont., location occurred overnight while the theatre was closed and no one was injured. It says the […]

OTTAWA — Liberal member of Parliament Marie-France Lalonde wants to call a halt to the annual ritual of springing forward and falling back. The Ottawa-area MP plans to table a private member’s bill next week to end what she calls the “outdated practice” of daylight time. “It is time to change the time change,” Lalonde […]

The Canada Border Services Agency says an outage that affected its inspection kiosks at airports across the country has been resolved. The agency says travellers may continue to face delays in the short term as normal processing operations resume. Toronto Pearson International Airport said earlier Thursday that the outage was affecting Terminal 1 and Terminal […]

SURREY — An Ontario man has been convicted in a shooting in Surrey, B.C., that killed a man and injured a woman in February 2022. Homicide investigators in B.C. say Yusuf Kontos was arrested in Richmond Hill, Ont., in January last year and was convicted of manslaughter in B.C. Supreme Court last month. Police say […]

HAMILTON — It’s the Holy Grail for running backs, and a milestone Greg Bell is closing in on for the first time as a professional football player. The six-foot, 200-pound Bell has run for 837 yards (5.7-yard average) this season, his first as a CFL starter. If Bell can average 55 yards rushing over the […]

The Canada Border Services Agency says there is another outage affecting its inspection kiosks at airports across the country. Toronto Pearson International Airport says the outage is affecting Terminal 1 and Terminal 3, where passengers may experience longer wait times. The border agency says it’s working to resolve the issue. This is the second CBSA […]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is moving ahead with its plan to create so-called special economic zones to push forward projects it deems important, and is considering including “moon shot” ideas to qualify. The power to designate parts of the province as special economic zones was created in the controversial Bill 5, a […]