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TORONTO — Ontario is planning to create a provincewide electronic medical record system for primary care, more than two decades after the government first embarked on what became a scandal-plagued eHealth project. Health Minister Sylvia Jones is announcing today that the province is starting a new process, conducting a market sounding exercise to better understand […]

Ontario’s police watchdog says a man in Windsor is dead after police shot him following an alleged armed robbery Wednesday night. The Special Investigations Unit says initial reports allege the 40-year-old man was armed with a knife and had robbed a convenience store on Sandwich Street. The SIU says police later found the man in […]

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed … Critics urge Ottawa to help Inuit resist Chinese surveillance, economic dependence The Carney government is leaving Inuit communities at risk of Chinese surveillance and economic dependence and isn’t facing up to the threat China poses to the […]

VANCOUVER — Vancouver is poised to close out its first official snow-free winter in 43 years, in what environmental researchers say may become a new norm for southwestern British Columbia rather than an anomaly. Friday marks the start of spring, and with temperatures forecast around 12 degrees, the city is sure to see out winter […]

TORONTO — As the Ontario government cuts funding for seven supervised drug consumption sites in the province, workers at three remaining sites in Toronto that don’t rely on provincial funding say they’re worried the move will further strain their resources and lead to more overdoses and open drug use across the city. The province said […]

MISSISSAUGA — Police in Peel Region say a young boy was fatally struck by a GO train west of Toronto on Wednesday afternoon. It happened shortly before 3 p.m. at a train crossing near Alexandra Avenue and Fourth Street in Mississauga, Ont., and the incident halted train service in the area. Const. Tyler Bell-Morena told […]

Jennifer Pan has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2010 death of her mother, nearly a year after the Supreme Court of Canada ordered a new first-degree murder trial for the Markham, Ont., woman in a case that drew international attention and spawned a Netflix documentary. One of Pan’s lawyers, Breana Vandebeek, confirmed the plea […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say they have arrested and charged one of their own officers who allegedly accessed private police databases without authorization. Police allege Const. Abbas Popal accessed the databases several times between January 2024 and April 2025. They say the 25-year-old officer has been charged with unauthorized use of a computer and was […]

WASHINGTON — Trade talks with Canada ahead of the mandatory review of the continental trade pact are lagging behind those with Mexico, United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Wednesday. Greer told Fox Business that talks are moving ahead with his Mexican counterparts as the Trump administration negotiates changes to the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on […]

TORONTO — Calls for an Ontario judge to apologize for suggesting three Toronto police officers lied and colluded in a high-profile criminal trial are inappropriate and undermine public confidence in the justice system, some legal observers said Wednesday. The president of Toronto’s police union urged Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy to publicly apologize to […]