Ontario News

TORONTO — Ontario says there are 3,797 patients in hospital with COVID-19 and 604 people in intensive care units due to critical illness related to the disease.

Toronto police say a pedestrian has been killed in an alleged hit-and-run late Saturday. They say the collision happened at Weston Road & Dee Avenue in the city's west end.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is set to meet Sunday with leaders of rural, remote and northern communities to discuss their housing challenges as issues of rapid price growth and lack of supply are felt far beyond urban borders.

LONDON, Ont. — Police in London, Ont., say they are investigating a suspicious death. Investigators say it began Saturday evening with a report that came in just before 9 p.m. of a vehicle on fire on Manning Drive.

TORONTO, Kan. — Toronto police say a 19-year-old man was fatally shot early Saturday morning in what was the the ninth homicide for the city this year. Police say they were called at around 12:40 a.m.

Three brothers killed in a house fire in Brampton, Ont., this week were remembered Friday as tight-knit and "delightfully rambunctious.

TORONTO — Ontario is reporting 4,026 are currently people in hospital with COVID-19, including 600 patients in intensive care units.

MARKHAM, Ont. — Ontario's police watchdog is investigating a fatal officer-involved shooting Friday night in Markham, Ont.

TORONTO — Some parents in Ontario are raising concerns about the three-ply cloth masks their children received from schools this week, saying the masks are too big and not protective enough against the highly-contagious Omicron variant.

TORONTO — A judge has denied a request to partially lift a publication ban in the case of a man accused of killing a Toronto police officer, but says the anticipated evidence "paints a very different picture" than what some politicians and the chief