York Region

TORONTO — Companies and unions building worker training centres using money from Ontario’s embattled Skills Development Fund could soon bypass planning laws, raising “significant concerns” for the province’s municipalities and opposition parties. The government recently passed a labour bill that includes provisions to exempt the centres from the Planning Act, saying they are key to […]

Provincial police say a man is facing an upgraded murder charge and an additional charge of first-degree murder in the deaths of two people in southwestern Ontario last month. Police say the morning of Oct. 5, they were called to a home in Simcoe where officers found 71-year-old Barbara Morgan dead. Police arrested a 45-year-old […]

Many Ontario residents were waking up to the sights and sounds of Old Man Winter on Friday after the first major blast of a multi-day winter storm, while some areas brace for up to 70 centimetres of snow. Environment Canada issued snow squall and storm warnings Friday morning for parts of southern Ontario, including areas […]

TORONTO — The Ontario government is taking control of the province’s real estate regulator after an audit found issues with its practices and organizational culture. The audit looked into complaints about the Real Estate Council of Ontario’s handling of a now-closed real estate brokerage, iPro Realty. Among audit findings was that iPro told RECO its […]

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says an investor’s legal action against a mining company over its decision not to immediately publicize information about a production setback can proceed. Just days after Canadian firm Lundin Mining Corp. detected wall instability at its open-pit mine in Chile in October 2017, a rock slide prompted the […]

The Ontario and federal governments, along with an energy company, have announced that they are setting up a research Centre for Fusion Energy in the province. The federal government, through Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., is spending up to $33 million to establish the centre, while Ontario is putting up $19.5 million and Stellarex, a […]

Many Ontario residents are waking up to the sights and sounds of Old Man Winter after the first major blast of a multi-day winter storm. Environment Canada says snowfall amounts could reach upwards of 50 centimetres for areas off Georgian Bay, and up to 60 centimetres in northeastern Ontario as the system lingers into Saturday. […]

OTTAWA — Ontario’s Economic Development Minister Vic Fedeli knows he has to hustle to secure job-creating developments with defence industry ties for his province — now that Ottawa is poised to move quickly on major military purchases. With the navy looking to place a rush order for submarines and the Swedish defence firm Saab dangling […]

OTTAWA — The Court of Appeal for Ontario has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of killing 10-year-old Darla Thurrott in 1989. In a decision issued Thursday, the court concluded there was a miscarriage of justice in the case and set the conviction aside. In 1990, Timothy Rees was found guilty of second-degree […]

Police in the Niagara Region are looking to return an urn containing cremated remains to its owner after the urn was brought to a thrift store as a donation. Police say officers were called to the West Lincoln Community Care Thrift Store in the Town of West Lincoln on Monday after it was reported someone […]