Ontario News

MONTREAL — A Quebec man dubbed the "pilot to the stars" who had been on the lam since mid-December has turned himself in to Quebec provincial police. Normand Dube, 59, surrendered to Quebec provincial police in Mascouche, Que., on Wednesday night.

TORONTO — Ontario will reopen the majority of its shuttered schools on Monday, while those in Toronto, Peel Region and York Region will resume in-person learning the following week.

MONTREAL — Prosecutors on Wednesday dropped all charges against a Montreal man accused of attacking a police officer last week after evidence surfaced exonerating him.

TORONTO — The trial of a teenage boy accused of sexually assaulting two students in a locker room heard Wednesday from several former teammates who described a culture of violent hazing at their Toronto all-boys Catholic school.

MONTREAL — Quebec's Court of Appeal has rejected the case of a man on the lam for six weeks who was convicted in an aerial attack on Hydro-Quebec power lines.

The Ontario government announced Wednesday that most schools will reopen for in-person learning next week, though some hotspot regions will have to wait until the following week.

MONTREAL — Quebec's public security minister rejected calls on Wednesday from opposition parties to set up police checkpoints limiting travel between regions when some COVID-19 health orders are relaxed next week.

TORONTO — A pilot project that sends crisis-support workers instead of police to certain 911 calls in Toronto is set to begin sometime next year, following widespread calls for police reform.

TORONTO — Ontario's new autism services program will launch in March for 600 children following months of delay, but critics said it would do little to help thousands of families who remain waiting for support.

GODERICH, Ont. — Officials say an investigation is underway after a train derailment demolished two vehicles and an outbuilding in Goderich, Ont., on Monday.