Ontario News

TORONTO — Ontario is offering faith-based and cultural groups an additional $20.5 million this year to help address incidents of hate, with priority being given to Jewish and Muslim groups. The funding is on top of $12.

TORONTO — Police allege information on hundreds of Ontario drivers was secretly handed over to car thieves as part of an auto theft ring that included Service Ontario employees.

TORONTO — Ontario's municipal affairs and housing minister said Wednesday he has not yet made any decisions on the break up of Peel Region, though he is now calling it a "potential" dissolution.

TORONTO — Ontario has no central plan to help hospitals tackle nurse shortages that lead to temporary emergency department closures, the province's acting auditor general found, while a significant portion of ER patients are only there because they d

THUNDER BAY, Ont. — A Thunder Bay, Ont., police officer is facing charges after an investigation by provincial police.

Ontario's acting auditor general says the province's removal of three-point turns, parallel parking and other requirements from G class driving tests was done without a full review and may have impacted road safety.

TORONTO — A former correctional officer testifying at a coroner's inquest into the death of a mentally ill man at an Ontario jail on Wednesday recalled getting an "incredibly bad sinking feeling" as soon as he saw the man in his segregation cell.

TORONTO — Ontario has named a former General Motors executive as its new representative in Washington, D.C.

TORONTO — Ontario's Progressive Conservative government spent about $25 million — or three quarters of its total advertising spending — last year on ads the auditor general believes are partisan.

TORONTO — Ontario's government is not respecting or using public consultation on environmental impacts in its decision making, particularly in its now-reversed plan to open up the protected Greenbelt for housing development, the acting auditor genera