Ontario News

TORONTO — Investigators are reviewing an incident in which Toronto police officers responding to a mental-health crisis call fired a bean-bag gun.

TORONTO — Efforts to recover the body of a worker trapped in the rubble of a partial collapse of a building under construction in London, Ont., continued on Saturday amid fears of a further cave-in.

Toronto police have charged two people in the stabbing of a transit employee at an east-end subway station. They say a TTC worker approached a group of males on Thursday at the Scarborough Town Centre.

Two people are dead after a four-storey wall collapsed at a construction site in London, Ont., city officials said Friday. Earlier in the day firefighters dug through debris in the hope of saving one person who was trapped in the rubble.

Montreal long-term care residents due to receive a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in the coming days. and their families say they're ready as the province continues to report high numbers of infections and deaths.

TORONTO — A small fleet of mobile COVID-19 testing centres is helping Toronto communities track the spread of the virus.

TORONTO — A man found guilty of sexually assaulting a child will get a new hearing because the trial judge failed to provide reasons for convicting him, Ontario's Court of Appeal ruled on Friday.

TORONTO — Two more of Ontario's COVID-19 hot spots will move into lockdown next week, a day before the province administers the first vaccines against the virus to several thousand health-care workers.

RENFREW, Ont. — Public health officials say a COVID-19 outbreak in a small community in eastern Ontario has reached 55 COVID-19 cases. The Renfrew public health unit says about half those tested in the Mennonite community tested positive.

LONDON, Ont. — Officials say five people have been taken to hospital and two others may be trapped after a building under construction partially collapsed in London, Ont., on Friday.