Ontario News

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Ontario's air ambulance service has named a former hospital executive and top military surgeon as its new president. Ornge says Dr. Homer Tien will take over as president and chief executive officer, replacing Dr.

TORONTO — The organization overseeing Ontario's food banks says residents with full and part-time jobs are increasingly reaching out for help to put food on their tables.

TORONTO — New legislation introduced Monday in Ontario would create so-called "animal protection zones" with increased fines for trespassing — a move applauded by farmers but roundly criticized by the animal rights activists who say it targets them.

GUELPH, Ont. — Science has confirmed what many pet owners already know.

GERALDTON, Ont. — An 88-year-old man from northern Ontario is facing a number of sex charges related to alleged offences dating back more than 30 years.

Toronto police say they've made an arrest in two sexual assault investigations. They say they've charged a 39-year-old person with allegedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man.

TORONTO — Ontario Provincial Police have identified the person killed in a multi-vehicle pileup on Highway 401 as a man from Nova Scotia. Police say 33-year-old Matthew Robert Jamieson died at the scene of the crash in Kingston, Ont., on Sunday.

TORONTO — Passengers from one Toronto subway train had to trudge through a smoky tunnel, while thousands of others saw their commutes otherwise delayed or interrupted after a small fire shut down a stretch of the city's busy crosstown line for severa

TORONTO — Ontario's auditor general will assess the government's plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in her annual report, to be released Wednesday.

TORONTO — Media Central Corp. Inc. says it has agreed to buy Toronto weekly Now Magazine for as much as $2 million in the first step of a plan to consolidate the alternative publication landscape.