Ontario News

STRATFORD, ONTARIO — Ontario is extending a program that helps long-term care homes provide clinical placements for nursing and personal support worker students.

TORONTO — Ontario has ordered municipalities that directly operate child-care centres to do a value-for-money audit of their programs to determine if they could instead be operated by a "third party," raising concerns about privatization.

PICKERING, Ont. — Ontario Power Generation is moving ahead with a plan to extend the life of the aging Pickering Nuclear Generating Station by decades, as the province tries to secure more electricity supply in the face of increasing demand.

NEWMARKET, Ont. — The case of an Ontario man accused of sending lethal substances to people who later took their own lives will proceed by direct indictment.

TORONTO — Jurors at an inquest into the death of a teen shot by a Toronto police officer more than a decade ago were asked Tuesday to consider dozens of recommendations related to officer training and monitoring, peer intervention and mental health s

Marineland has pleaded not guilty to alleged offences regarding its care of three young black bears and has asked to have the charges stayed. The Niagara Falls, Ont.

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.