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Seyfi Tomar was at his home north of Toronto when he learned that a powerful earthquake had hit the village in Turkey where his parents live. He immediately called their home, where his father answered the landline.

Toronto city council scrapped on Wednesday a recommendation to keep its warming centres open around the clock until mid-April, opting instead to call for more federal support and have staff study the idea further.

TORONTO — The unsolved murder of a tech CEO in Toronto nearly five years ago has left a gaping hole in the lives of his loved ones, his family said Tuesday, as they renewed a $250,000 reward for information leading to his killer.

TORONTO — Ontario's economy will be "doom and gloom" before bouncing back next year, the province's fiscal watchdog said Tuesday.

TORONTO — Now that thousands of Ontario families are paying reduced child-care fees under the national $10-a-day program, work is underway to ensure equal and greater access to affordable care – with those in the sector pointing to workforce retentio

TORONTO — Ontario should speed up new housing approvals, increase skilled trade immigration, and "rein in" municipalities introducing varying green building standards, a residential builders' group is telling the government.

An officer found guilty of investigating an Indigenous man's death with bias has been demoted and must undergo cultural competency training – a penalty the man's family says isn't enough to deter similar behaviour in the future.

A 4.2 magnitude earthquake was "lightly felt" in Ontario after it hit near Buffalo, N.Y., Earthquakes Canada said Monday – a light quake by international measures but the largest to hit the area in more than a half-century.

KENORA, Ont. — Indigenous leaders and the provincial government have opened a centre in northwest Ontario aimed at addressing the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the justice system.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Police in Brampton, Ont., say three police cruisers were involved in a crash that sent two people to hospital with minor injuries and led to five arrests this morning.