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Community engagement, time part of effort to tackle racism in Peel policing: OHRC

Community engagement, time part of effort to tackle racism in Peel policing: OHRC

Efforts to tackle systemic racism in the Peel Regional Police service will take time and lots of community engagement, the head of the Ontario Human Rights Commission says as dozens of recommendations to improve the force are reviewed.
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Ontario elementary, secondary teachers to hold strike votes

Ontario elementary, secondary teachers to hold strike votes

TORONTO — Public elementary and high school teachers in Ontario are taking a step toward a strike, with their unions announcing Monday that they will be asking members to vote in favour of walkouts.
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Ontario to establish working group to deal with Greenbelt probe fallout

Ontario to establish working group to deal with Greenbelt probe fallout

TORONTO — The province says it is creating a working group to implement recommendations made in a damning auditor general's report on the government's decision to remove land from the protected Greenbelt.
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Toronto man dead after drowning in Lake Ontario east of city: police

Toronto man dead after drowning in Lake Ontario east of city: police

Police say a 25-year-old man is dead after he drowned in Lake Ontario over the weekend. Provincial police say they got a call for a person who appeared to be in distress Saturday afternoon near a pier in Cobourg, a town located east of Toronto.
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Ottawa's light-rail transit service fully up and running after month-long closure

Ottawa's light-rail transit service fully up and running after month-long closure

Ottawa's light-rail transit service has fully resumed after a month-long hiatus. A fleet of between nine to 13 single-car trains — varying with ridership peaks — will run along the entirety of the LRT's east-west line for the rest of August.
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Ontario adds $766M in new program spending using contingency funds

Ontario adds $766M in new program spending using contingency funds

TORONTO — Ontario spent about $766 million more than planned in the first quarter of this fiscal year, but the province's bottom line is the same since nearly all of that new spending came from contingency funds.
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House fire in Vaughan, Ont., leaves two people dead

House fire in Vaughan, Ont., leaves two people dead

VAUGHAN, Ont. — Two people are dead after a house fire in Vaughan, Ontario, north of Toronto. The York Regional Police say they were called at approximately 2:30 p-m on Saturday to respond to a house on fire.
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Popular Toronto Greektown street festival returns after three-year hiatus

Toronto’s popular Greektown street festival has returned for the first time in four years. Taste of the Danforth is running from Aug. 11 to Aug. 13.
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An insider's perspective on the worst blackout in North America, 20 years later

An insider's perspective on the worst blackout in North America, 20 years later

TORONTO — At 4:11 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2003, the system supervisor in the control room overseeing Ontario's electrical grid saw four alarms pop up on his computer screen. Then came 30,000 more.
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Man dies after consuming substance following altercation with police in Peterborough

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — Ontario's police watchdog is investigating the death of a 28-year-old man following an interaction with police in Peterborough.
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