Ontario News

TORONTO — Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard has found a new lawyer after parting ways with his previous high-profile counsel.

BURLINGTON, ONTARIO — Ontario's police watchdog says it is investigating after an occupant of a pickup truck that was allegedly fleeing from police died in a crash.

FORT HOPE, Ont. — Four teens have been charged in connection with a fire that destroyed a northwestern Ontario First Nation's only school last week. Nishnawbe Aski police say the suspects are three boys aged 13, 14 and 17, and a 13-year-old girl.

HAMILTON — Jordan Williams is a Hamilton Tiger-Cat.

TORONTO — A plan to move nine ServiceOntario outlets into Staples Canada stores is part of a broader push by the government to consider new locations for all of the stand-alone, privately run operations of the provincial provider, The Canadian Press

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — At a bustling college campus west of Toronto, several students had been thinking about recently announced changes to the international student program that brought them to the post-secondary institution.

TORONTO — Ontario colleges and universities will be required to guarantee housing for incoming international students, Minister Jill Dunlop announced Friday.

TORONTO — Teachers in Ontario's French-language public school system have voted 93 per cent in favour of a strike mandate.

TORONTO — An Ontario man accused of sending lethal substances to people who later took their own lives will be pleading not guilty to upgraded murder charges, his lawyer said Friday.

TORONTO — Padma Ranjan used to pass a blood donation centre on her bus ride to work in Vancouver and wish she could donate. Her family had been regular blood donors when she was growing up in Malaysia. She moved to the U.K.