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TORONTO — Education Minister Paul Calandra tabled a bill Monday with the sole purpose of firing one school board trustee. It is related to a $45,000 trip that four trustees from the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board took last year to Italy, where they bought $100,000 worth of art for the board. Calandra […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say a third person is under arrest in connection with the August shooting death of an eight-year-old boy in the city’s north end. JahVai Roy was in bed when he was struck by a stray bullet as gunfire erupted outside his North York apartment building on Aug. 16. Police say the […]

TORONTO — It’s do or die for the Toronto Blue Jays tonight as they try to clinch a spot in the World Series, and with a home game advantage fans are heading to Rogers Centre in hopes of witnessing history. Johnny Prokos, whose father has run a hotdog stand on the east side of Rogers […]

TORONTO — Ontario Labour Minister David Piccini was in the hot seat today as politicians are back at Queen’s Park for the first time in months. Opposition parties focused most of their questions on findings from a recent Ontario auditor general report on the Skills Development Fund, which she said was not “fair, transparent or […]

EDINBURGH — Three men accused of being involved in the death of a restaurant owner in Owen Sound, Ont., have consented to be extradited from Scotland to face trial in Canada. The men, who are from the same family, are facing charges in the death of 44-year-old Sharif Rahman, who was assaulted outside his restaurant […]

The trial of an Ontario man accused of selling lethal substances online to people who later used it to take their own lives has been pushed back to April 2026. Kenneth Law is set to stand trial on 14 counts each of first-degree murder and aiding suicide, with the proceedings expected to last eight weeks. […]

An Indigenous advocate in northern Ontario says his community’s past experience with Anglo American PLC’s diamond-mining subsidiary De Beers does not inspire confidence that a proposed merger between the U.K. company and Vancouver-based Teck Resources Ltd. would benefit First Nations. Charles Hookimaw, former director of lands and resources for the Attawapiskat First Nation, detailed his […]

A man is facing criminal charges after an ambulance was allegedly set on fire in Hamilton over the weekend. Police say ambulance staff arrived at the Hamilton General Hospital and offloaded a patient around 6 a.m. on Sunday, and found the ambulance engulfed in flames when they returned. Police say an investigation led them to […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s Ministry of Health has tasked hospitals struggling with deficits to come up with a three-year plan to balance their budgets, and service cuts and bed closures do not appear to be off the table for extreme cases. The Ontario Hospital Association has said that hospitals ended last year $360 million in the […]

TORONTO — Ontario politicians will return to Queen’s Park today for the first time in months as the legislature resumes. The province is expected to table a red tape reduction bill as its first order of business. That will include labour mobility legislation that would allow health-care professionals from other provinces to work here by […]