Ontario News

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province is planning to increase speed limits on 400-series highways across the province.

COURTICE, ONT. — Police in Durham Region say a 33-year-old man has been arrested after two females were found dead in a home in Courtice, Ont. Durham Regional Police say they responded to a home in east Courtice for a wellbeing check just after 1 p.

TORONTO — Ontario is staring down a teacher shortage as retirements and student enrolment are both on the rise, and the Ministry of Education expects the situation will start to get even worse in 2027.

LINDSAY, Ont. — Several Ontario farmers raised concerns on Tuesday about dwindling farmland across the province as politicians of all stripes gather at an annual rural and agricultural expo. Ontario politicians descended upon Lindsay, Ont.

TORONTO — The second teen to be sentenced in the death of a Toronto homeless man will not serve any more time in custody but will spend close to two years under probation.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Police say one man is dead and two others were injured after shots were fired during a break-in at a home in Mississauga, Ont. Peel regional police say they responded to a call around 3:45 a.m.

TORONTO — Toronto police say they are investigating two killings and two other shootings that took place within a four-hour span starting Monday night.

McMaster Children’s Hospital says it will resume tonsil and adenoid surgeries next week, almost four months after two children died following the procedure.

TORONTO — A monument to honour residential school survivors was unveiled in Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square on Monday, one of dozens of events in Ontario marking the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

TORONTO — Ontario's only First Nation representative at Queen's Park plans to soon table proposed legislation, in his own Indigenous language, to have the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation declared a paid provincial holiday.