Ontario News

A former Toronto police officer serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of two women has been denied parole.

TORONTO — The editor of an extremist publication who was convicted of promoting hatred against women and Jews has been been arrested again after allegedly breaching the conditions of his parole.

TORONTO — Ontario is telling emergency services to consider having paramedic crews tend to more than one patient at a time in hospital ERs as one way to reduce delays.

TORONTO — Ontario is planning to require employers to tell their workers if they are being electronically monitored. The government is set to introduce a new piece of labour legislation this month that will include the proposed policy.

A state of emergency in Ontario that Premier Doug Ford declared to deal with anti-vaccine mandate blockades was lifted Wednesday evening.

TORONTO — An Opposition bill aimed at fighting Islamophobia and other hate crimes was tabled in Ontario's legislature Wednesday, but it was unclear if it would receive the support of the majority Progressive Conservative government.

Police say a fire that damaged a Liberal MP's constituency office in Mississauga, Ont., has been deemed suspicious.

Ontario is reporting 1,106 people in hospital with COVID-19, up from 1,038 on Tuesday. There are also 319 people in intensive care, the same as Tuesday. The province is reporting 19 more deaths due to the virus.

TORONTO — Ontario long-term care homes, where the majority of residents have third or fourth COVID-19 vaccine doses, have been spared mass deaths during the Omicron wave despite infection levels similar to those seen in early 2020, according to new f

TORONTO — Ontario's financial watchdog says that overall, the province's labour market has rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, but the recovery has been uneven across sectors and regions.