Ontario News

TORONTO — Inmates at a Thunder Bay jail received inadequate mental health services, a psychiatrist who treated a renowned Indigenous artist who died at the facility told an inquest on Tuesday.

TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford mused Tuesday about putting a school or community centre on the current east Toronto site of the Ontario Science Centre, just one week after touting a plan for thousands of housing units there.

TORONTO — Ontario will eliminate the post-secondary education requirement to become a police officer, expand enrolment for its basic training program and axe tuition fees at the Ontario Police College, the premier said Tuesday.

TORONTO — Ontario's largest conservation authority says it was not consulted on the decision to move the Ontario Science Centre, despite owning the land it currently sits on.

TORONTO — The federal government and the City of Toronto are jointly funding the purchase of 340 zero emission transit buses for the city.

No one has been fined in Ontario so far under a new law that can require patients to pay a daily $400 penalty if they refuse to move from a hospital to a long-term care home not of their choosing, the province and its hospitals say.

TORONTO — Dozens of mourners shared a moment of somber silence on Sunday as they gathered to mark the anniversary of a deadly van attack that shook Toronto five years ago.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Ontario Provincial Police say they're looking for a suspect after what they're describing as a fatal hit-and-run on the province's busiest highway.

It has been five years since a man deliberately drove a van down a bustling sidewalk in north Toronto, committing one of the country's worst mass murders.

UXBRIDGE, Ont. — The Ontario government says it is pushing forward with plans to create Ontario's first urban provincial park in the Township of Uxbridge.