Ontario News

Dressing up as a skunk to march past eager crowds is among the highlights of Glenn French's long tenure as a volunteer with the Toronto Santa Claus Parade.

TORONTO — Members of the Ontario Liberal Party are voting this weekend to select their new leader to go head-to-head with Premier Doug Ford in the 2026 election.

TORONTO — The family of a mentally ill man who died in his cell at an Ontario jail nearly seven years ago has told a coroner's inquest that his death has left a "deep, painful hole" in their lives.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Ontario is giving police services $18 million over three years to help them fight auto theft.

Toronto has seen a "staggering" increase in hate crime reports since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas last month, the city's police chief said on Thursday.

TORONTO — After a man allegedly yelled slurs and threw a rock at Muslims standing outside a Toronto mosque last week, a local rabbi felt the need to send over a message expressing sympathy.

Ontario is putting nearly $6 million toward nine projects aimed at making use of hydrogen to power the province's electricity grid.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Police in Peel Region say a youth has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of an international student working as a food delivery driver this summer.

TORONTO — The dangers of a changing climate could add more than $4 billion per year to the cost of maintaining Ontario's public infrastructure over the rest of the century, the province's financial watchdog said Wednesday.

TORONTO — A video of Soleiman Faqiri taken by corrections staff at an Ontario jail a few days before his death shows a man "probably as unwell as you can get," a forensic psychiatrist told a coroner's inquest Wednesday.