Ontario News

TORONTO — Durham Regional Police have released body camera footage showing the capture of a kangaroo that escaped from its handlers east of Toronto last week. The four-and-a-half minute video, which has a timecode of 7:10 a.m.

TORONTO — An inmate at an Ontario jail told provincial police he saw correctional officers beating Soleiman Faqiri "as hard as they could" after getting him inside his cell, a coroner's inquest into the mentally ill man's death heard Tuesday.

TORONTO — New Ontario Liberal Party Leader Bonnie Crombie says she will not run for a seat at Queen's Park in the near future.

TORONTO — Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government has passed a motion to bypass debate and public hearings for a bill to redevelop Ontario Place.

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. — A northern Ontario police officer is facing sexual assault charges after an investigation into alleged incidents that took place last year.

TORONTO — Ontario's Progressive Conservative government is planning to bypass key debate and public hearings on a bill to push Ontario Place redevelopment plans forward, a move the opposition parties say is undemocratic.

TORONTO — Ontario has introduced legislation aimed at stamping out puppy mills, the first in a suite of animal protection measures it hopes to implement in the coming months.

TORONTO — A correctional officer who was called in to help restrain a mentally ill man at an Ontario jail told a coroner's inquest Monday he didn't know anything about the inmate or the reason for the struggle at the time.

TORONTO — There is a lot of COVID-19 circulating in Ontario right now, and levels of both that virus and influenza are on the rise, set to peak over the holiday season, the province's top doctor said Monday.

Ontario will investigate a kangaroo's escape from its handlers east of Toronto during a journey to Quebec, the province's solicitor general said Monday as advocates called for stricter regulations to protect captive wildlife.