Ontario News

OTTAWA — The Crown corporation that manages Ottawa's Rideau Canal says a section of the famous skateway is to open on Sunday for the first time this winter.

TORONTO — An 18-year-old man pulled from an ice-covered stretch of Toronto's waterfront hours after his vehicle plunged into the depths died in hospital shortly after being rescued, city police said Saturday.

TORONTO — A new government-commissioned report says Ontario should commit to achieving a clean energy economy by 2050.

Toronto police say a teenage boy has been arrested in the stabbing of another teen at a city high school.

A township in southwestern Ontario has voted to allow Pride flags on a community flagpole, essentially overturning a controversial decision made last year to ban the flags on municipal property.

TORONTO — Canada's largest school board is looking into creating a new policy to restrict the use of cellphones and social media by students in schools.

TORONTO — As Loblaws moves to reduce its 50 per cent discount on food approaching its best before date to the more modest 30 per cent, experts say those time stamps aren't an accurate measure of whether groceries are safe to eat.

NORFOLK COUNTY, Ont. — Ontario will dole out $2 million to nine municipalities in southwestern Ontario this year in an effort to prevent abandoned oil and gas wells from exploding.

TORONTO — Members of the Ontario Provincial Police are starting negotiations for a new contract, looking for wage increases as their union says they've fallen behind many municipal counterparts, but there is a potentially complicating factor.

TORONTO — The Toronto Zoo says it believes personal information of its current, former and retired employees was stolen in a ransomware cyberattack first detected earlier this month.