Ontario News

TORONTO — Doors open at the new Union Station GO bus hub in Toronto today. The 23,000 square-foot terminal, at the north-east corner of Bay Street and Lake Shore Boulevard, links people travelling in and out of the downtown core.

Ontario is reporting a record high of 1,859 new COVID-19 cases today, along with 20 new deaths linked to the virus. The total breaks the previous record of 1,855 reached last month.

Quebec is reporting more than 2,000 new cases of COVID-19 for the first time since the pandemic began, as well as dozens of new deaths.

QUEBEC — The Quebec government says it will spend $18.6 million over the next five years to improve policing in Indigenous communities.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — A 33-year-old man has been charged with one count of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder after an early-morning house fire in Brampton, Ont.

Twelve people have died in a COVID-19 outbreak at a hospital in London, Ont., that has seen dozens of staff and patients sickened. As of Friday, the outbreak at University Hospital, which began on Nov.

MONTREAL — Amid a worsening COVID-19 situation and with another region moving to the maximum alert level on Friday, Quebec's opposition parties called on the government to allow the province's public health director to be questioned over the pandemic

THUNDER BAY, Ont. — A man in Thunder Bay, Ont., faces multiple child-pornography charges. Police say they charged the 42-year-old man with voyeurism, and making and possessing child pornography.

TORONTO — Effective inspections and management are crucial in the battle to stop the grim march of COVID-19 infections and untimely deaths in Ontario's long-term care homes, a commission delving into the situation reported on Friday.

An axe-wielding man who was shot by police while experiencing a mental health crisis last year needed medical help "more than anything," Ontario's police watchdog said Friday in announcing the cops would not face criminal charges in his death.