York Region

MISSISSAUGA — The province’s police watchdog says it’s investigating after a 19-year-old man was found dead at the University of Toronto’s Mississauga campus. The Special Investigations Unit says preliminary information suggests the male died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after Peel Regional Police officers investigating an assault located the man at the UTM student residence. […]

When Volodymyr Kravchuk visits the Daily Bread Food Bank, he’s constantly thinking about his two young sons. The Toronto resident is often looking for milk, eggs and vegetables such as potatoes or carrots, to make sure his children get the nutrition they need. Kravchuk and his family moved to Canada from Ukraine in September 2023 […]

TORONTO — Paramedic students at a career college in northern Ontario who were approved to receive funding through a signature government program aiming to boost health-care staffing have been swept up in the provincewide pause on student aid. More than 40 affected students have already dropped out, their school says. Members of Premier Doug Ford’s […]

TORONTO — Students at the University of Toronto’s Mississauga campus have been told to shelter in place after reports of police activity near a student housing building. The school says on social media that emergency responders are at the scene at McLuhan Court residence. It says students should shelter in place until they’re given further […]

OKOTOKS — A former junior hockey executive in Alberta has been charged with sexually exploiting three players. Tyler King, 39, was arrested Friday at a U.S. border crossing in Ontario, RCMP announced Monday. He had been working with the State University of New York campus at Oswego in New York state. RCMP said the 39-year-old […]

TORONTO — Toronto and the surrounding areas are getting a few more days of unusually warm weather in the middle of fall. Temperatures hit 18.3 degrees on Monday and highs of 20 and 21 are forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday, according to Environment Canada. The Weather Network says Toronto hasn’t recorded any temperatures at or […]

U.S. asset manager Blackstone and four Canadian institutional investors have signed a US$3.1-billion deal to acquire a non-controlling stake in the Mitsubishi Corp. subsidiary that holds an interest in LNG Canada, the country’s first liquefied natural gas export facility. The investor group includes the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s doctors are calling on the province to reform access to specialist care, drop the use of fax machines and launch a provincewide central intake so they can end their patchwork process of finding specialized care for patients through group chats and social media. The Ontario Medical Association says problems with accessing specialist […]

Was a then-Air Canada employee an inside man who helped carry out one of the biggest gold heists in Canadian history, or a scapegoat exploited by a longtime friend and left to shoulder the blame? Those were the two competing scenarios presented to a Brampton, Ont., court today as prosecutors and defence lawyers made their […]

Toronto police Chief Myron Demkiw says officers did not arrest a suspect in the violent Bridle Path home invasion after he showed up in a hospital with a gunshot wound because not all evidence was available to them yet. Demkiw says police had no information at the time to suggest any of the attackers were […]