Ontario News

Ontario Premier Doug Ford blasted judges in the province whom he perceives as being soft on crime, and floated ideas on Wednesday such as electing judges and offering them payouts to retire early.

Police west of Toronto are searching for possible suspects after a fatal shooting outside a popular chain restaurant.

TORONTO — The Ontario government is considering shortening the length of teachers' college in order to address a worsening shortage of educators, documents obtained by The Canadian Press suggest.

TORONTO — Toronto police say a driver is dead after his truck collided with a TTC bus in the city's east end Tuesday evening. Officers and paramedics responded just after 6 p.m.

TORONTO — Toronto police say a woman was critically injured Tuesday afternoon after a large tree branch fell and hit her in the city's midtown. Police say they responded to the scene near St. Clair Avenue and Avenue Road just before 3:30 p.m.

HAMILTON — The office of Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath says she has been hospitalized after being injured in an accident.

Police say they have charged one person after an all-terrain vehicle rollover left a nine-year-old girl dead in eastern Ontario last fall.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the day after the federal election that he wants to focus on unity, refusing to shoot back at a rant from a Conservative MP calling the premier a "problem," an opportunist and a Liberal "hype man.

LONDON — Police in London, Ont., say a cyclist has died after colliding with a vehicle in the city’s east end.

TORONTO — A gynecologist has resigned from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario after Toronto Public Health told patients earlier this year that instruments were not properly cleaned and disinfected at her clinic.