Ontario News

TORONTO — Charges against a Toronto man that were laid after a woman was set on fire on a transit bus last month have been upgraded following the woman's death.

TORONTO — Municipal leaders in small Ontario communities are sounding the alarm over the temporary closures of hospital emergency rooms, saying action is needed to ensure local residents and visitors to those areas can get the care they need.

Ontario Provincial Police say two teenagers have died after a single-vehicle collision in Prince Edward County. They say the collision occurred on County Road 23 in the Township of Ameliasburgh around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday.

Toronto police say a 40-year-old woman has been charged in an ongoing human trafficking investigation.

Police in York Region say they've received reports that a man is missing after a golf cart went into a pond in Richmond Hill, Ont. Const.

Ontario is not seeing rapid growth in cases of monkeypox and its vaccination strategy appears to be working, the province's top doctor says

TORONTO — Ontario's Special Investigations Unit says it's investigating the death of a 26-year-old man in North York early this morning. A release from the SIU says the man died after an interaction with police at a residence on Saturday evening.

The family of a 28-year-old man killed by police west of Toronto has filed a lawsuit over his death, alleging negligence on the part of the force, local paramedics and the province's police watchdog.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford is planning to raise immigration and skilled labour shortage issues at a meeting of premiers from across the country next week in Victoria.

WHITCHURCH–STOUFFVILLE, ONT. — Police north of Toronto are investigating after they say an unknown substance was released into the air in a crowded tent during a local festival.