Ontario News

MONTREAL — Quebec government scientists say more research is needed before they can recommend the use of colchicine to treat COVID-19 patients.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government will gradually permit junior college and university students to return to campus next week, giving them a reprieve from the largely online education they've received since last March.

Pet groomers across Ontario can reopen to provide certain services, the province said Thursday as it clarified its pandemic regulations surrounding animal care.

TORONTO — Hazing brought a Toronto high school football team closer together despite the fear it caused, a former player told a sexual assault trial Thursday.

TORONTO — Ontario's highest court has upheld the convictions of a man who repeatedly stabbed and then dismembered his friend in a London, Ont., hotel room more than seven years ago.

ORILLIA, Ont. — Police are asking people to keep an eagle eye out for a missing pet hawk in the area of Orillia, Ont. They say one-year-old Arsenal disappeared sometime Wednesday from outside a home in Ramara.

MONTREAL — A Quebec man dubbed the "pilot to the stars" who had been on the lam since mid-December has turned himself in to Quebec provincial police. Normand Dube, 59, surrendered to Quebec provincial police in Mascouche, Que., on Wednesday night.

TORONTO — Ontario will reopen the majority of its shuttered schools on Monday, while those in Toronto, Peel Region and York Region will resume in-person learning the following week.

MONTREAL — Prosecutors on Wednesday dropped all charges against a Montreal man accused of attacking a police officer last week after evidence surfaced exonerating him.

TORONTO — The trial of a teenage boy accused of sexually assaulting two students in a locker room heard Wednesday from several former teammates who described a culture of violent hazing at their Toronto all-boys Catholic school.