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TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford urged everyone in the province Wednesday to refrain from lighting campfires, as 54 wildfires burned across the province and smoke from fires in Quebec degraded air quality.

LONDON, Ont. — Two years after a Muslim family was killed on its streets, residents of London, Ont.

Hazy, smoky conditions engulfed Canada's capital city on Tuesday, with the federal Environment Department issuing a special air quality statement for the region. The department said high levels of air pollution had developed in Ottawa, Gatineau, Que.

TORONTO — An Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled that the murder of a Toronto massage parlour employee amounted to an act of terrorism.

TORONTO — An Edmonton man convicted of killing his pregnant wife and dumping her body in a ditch has been granted full parole. The Parole Board of Canada granted Michael White full parole in late May.

TORONTO — Leading candidates in Toronto's mayoral race hurled accusations and engaged in heated exchanges during a debate Tuesday as they looked to stand apart from the field before the first ballots are cast later this week.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling for the head of the Correctional Service of Canada to be fired over a decision to move killer Paul Bernardo to a medium security prison.

The actions of an Ottawa police officer are under review after cops allegedly pulled over a school bus because a boy gave them the middle finger.

A township in eastern Ontario issued a precautionary evacuation notice for residents near an active wildfire on Monday, as water bombers and crews battled dozens of fires in the northern regions of the province.

Hydro One employees killed in a December 2017 helicopter crash in eastern Ontario were remembered by their families as proud tradespeople with "lifetimes ahead of them," as an inquest into their deaths opened Monday.