Ontario News

Ontario plans to begin buying up land to build a controversial highway in the Toronto area that will pave over prime farmland, Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday.

TORONTO — Animal advocates are celebrating after parts of a controversial Ontario agriculture law that made it illegal to get a job on a farm under false pretences to expose conditions inside were deemed unconstitutional.

WHITBY, Ont. — Ontario's police watchdog says two grandparents and their infant grandchild are among four people who died in a multi-vehicle crash on Highway 401 in Whitby when a suspect vehicle driving the wrong way was being chased by police.

CLARINGTON, Ont. — Police say a pursuit that began with a call about a robbery in a community northeast of Toronto has ended with a deadly crash.

Two Ontario universities are warning anyone planning to follow the lead of pro-Palestinian student activists in the U.S. and elsewhere in Canada that setting up encampments on campus will not be tolerated.

BRANTFORD, Ont. — Ontario says it will give wildland firefighters the same cancer, heart and post-traumatic stress disorder coverage as municipal firefighters.

TORONTO — Ontario will limit cellphone use in classrooms, restrict access to all social media networks and ban vaping on school properties starting this fall, the province's education minister announced Sunday.

Toronto police say they've charged a local man with second-degree murder after a man fell from a downtown balcony earlier this week. They say officers were called to a building in the area of Church Street and Shuter Street late Wednesday evening.

Toronto police say one of their officers is facing charges of perjury and attempting to obstruct justice. They say the officer began an inappropriate personal relationship with a member of the public during the course of his duties in December 2020.

LONDON, Ont. — Western University and picketing graduate teaching assistants have reached a tentative deal after a two-week strike.