Ontario News

Toronto FC has sent defender Luke Singh to Atletico Ottawa on a season-long loan. The 23-year-old from Brampton, Ont., spent last season with the Canadian Premier League club and the season before with FC Edmonton.

TORONTO — Ontario is extending a program that helps rural and northern hospitals avoid temporary ER closures for another six months.

TORONTO — When Dr. Garth Graham thinks about health misinformation on social media platforms, he envisions a garden.

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — Mason Zebeski scored the go-ahead goal and had an assist as the Mississauga Steelheads used a three-goal third-period to come back and top the Niagara IceDogs 3-1 on Thursday in Ontario Hockey League action.

Police say they believe a series of shootings and three homicides in the Greater Toronto Area last November are connected and they're asking for the public's help to identify the suspects.

TORONTO — Ontario has struck a tentative deal with Ottawa to drop an assessment of the province’s Highway 413 project, oversight long advocated for by environmental groups but criticized by the province as federal overreach.

The friend of a Canadian killed in Mexico says she spoke to Gabriele Schart on the phone just moments before the woman was shot in a gas station robbery.

Ontario will not introduce legislation to automatically allow fourplex homes to be built across the province, Premier Doug Ford said Thursday. Such legislation – which would override municipal prohibitions – would be a "massive mistake," Ford said.

TORONTO — The City of Toronto has given Rogers Communications Inc. the green light to set up cameras and sensors at five downtown intersections that will track the movement of vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists with the aim of alleviating gridlock.

TORONTO — Ontario plans to give front-line wildland firefighters and pilots a $5,000 bonus and make 100 of those jobs permanent in an effort to recruit and retain more workers.