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WINDSOR — Police have released surveillance video of an arson in Windsor, Ont., they say may be connected to the killing of a 45-year-old woman earlier this month. Police have previously said they believe Nancy Grewal was intentionally targeted when she was apparently stabbed in the nearby community of LaSalle on March 3. Grewal was […]

HAMILTON — Police say they have charged a Hamilton man after his elderly mother died in hospital last July. Hamilton police say paramedics were called to a Stoney Creek residence for a woman in medical distress. They say the 87-year-old woman was taken to the intensive care unit of Hamilton General Hospital, where she died […]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is urging the federal government to legalize the use of pepper spray for self-defence purposes. Ford said at a press conference today in Brockville, Ont., that it is a way for women to protect themselves when they feel unsafe walking at night. In response, a spokesperson for federal Justice Minister Sean […]

TORONTO — Seven times over the past two winters, doctors, nurses and staff in the emergency department of a downtown Toronto hospital took a moment of silence after a patient, often a Jane or John Doe, died from the cold. Clinically, it is known as severe accidental hypothermia, and it usually affects the city’s homeless […]

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts rose 4.5 per cent in February. The national housing agency said the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts was 250,900 units in February compared with 240,148 units in January. Housing starts can vary considerably month-to-month as big projects get started. The six-month […]

TORONTO — The Ontario government confirms it is cutting provincial funding for seven supervised drug consumption sites, days after harm reduction advocates said they were notified of the decision. The province says it will initiate a 90-day wind-down period to give those using the sites time to transition to the government’s abstinence-based model — homelessness […]

TORONTO — The lawyer representing Umar Zameer, a man cleared in the death of a Toronto police officer two years ago, says he has “serious misgivings” about an upcoming report into the conduct of several officers involved in the case. Nader Hasan says in a statement that neither he nor his client will have seen […]

TORONTO — The lawyer representing Umar Zameer, a man cleared in the death of a Toronto police officer two years ago, says he has “serious misgivings” about an upcoming report into the conduct of several officers involved in the case. Nader Hasan says in a statement that neither he nor his client will have seen […]

LONDON — Prime Minister Mark Carney met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday, and while both remarked the world has become a more challenging place since their first meeting a year ago, neither named a specific issue in their public remarks. A readout issued by Carney’s office after the meeting in London said […]

A major winter storm is bearing down on a large swath of northern Ontario extending into Quebec. Environment Canada says weather warnings are in place from east of Thunder Bay and Lake Superior, all the way to the city of Sept-Iles in eastern Quebec. The weather agency says up to 60 centimetres of snow could […]