York Region

The lawyer representing a father charged with murdering his nine-year-old Canadian daughter in Upstate New York said his client will ask for bail. Luciano Frattolin appeared Tuesday in Essex County court in Elizabethtown, N.Y., for a hearing to provide updates on his upcoming murder trial. Assistant public defender Eric Weyand told Judge Tatiana Coffinger that […]

Noha Zaher and Ibraheem Sabry still hadn’t made it home to Ottawa despite enduring nearly 60 hours of travel chaos and confusion after their vacation abroad. The couple and their two kids spent Tuesday at Toronto’s Pearson airport after they were denied boarding twice in Cairo because their flights with two different airlines were overbooked […]

Ontario’s housing minister says he will be making changes to a housing fund for municipalities that many have said unfairly measures their progress on building. Rob Flack is signalling in a speech to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference in Ottawa that he will “extend and improve” the Building Faster Fund but says details […]

TORONTO — An eight-year-old Toronto boy killed by a stray bullet while he was in bed with his family is being remembered as a compassionate and fearless child as the community prepares to hold a vigil in his memory later this week. JahVai Roy was killed in his home in the city’s north end early […]

OTTAWA — Canadian defence manufacturer Roshel is partnering with a Swedish steel company so it can produce ballistic-protection steel domestically for the first time. Roshel, which manufactures vehicles, will now be able to use Swebor’s intellectual property to produce ballistic steel in Canada. The agreement comes as Canada is looking to boost domestic steel consumption […]

TORONTO — A vigil is set to take place Thursday evening for an eight-year-old Toronto boy who was killed this weekend by a stray bullet while he was in bed with his family. JahVai Roy was killed in his home in the city’s north end early Saturday morning in what police are calling a “cowardly […]

NORFOLK COUNTY — A string of alleged cemetery thefts in southwestern Ontario has police appealing for help. Ontario Provincial Police say thefts have been reported at four cemeteries in Norfolk County since last week. Police say the suspects appeared to be looking for items with brass and bronze, including nameplates and screws. They say in […]

OTTAWA — Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu tells The Canadian Press that the federal government is launching a probe into allegations of unpaid work in the airline sector as a work stoppage at Air Canada stretches on. One of the key complaints from the union representing Air Canada flight attendants is that workers are not paid […]

Provincial police say they are investigating after human remains were found in a remote area of the Bruce Peninsula. Ontario Provincial Police say they were notified Thursday after archeologists working in the area west of Parry Sound across the Georgian Bay came across the remains. They say officers consulted with forensic experts and a coroner […]

Police in northern Ontario say four young people have died in a weekend collision involving an ATV and a commercial vehicle. Ontario Provincial Police say the crash happened at around 3:20 a.m. Saturday on Highway 11 near Moonbeam, north of Timmins. Police say a 16-year-old and two 18-year-olds from Moonbeam, as well as a 20-year-old […]