Ontario News

TORONTO — Hospitals in smaller and rural Ontario communities have been recruiting, training, and poring over schedules in the hopes of avoiding another summer wave of temporaryER closures – though the problem never really went away.

OAKVILLE, Ont. — Police say a 3-year-old boy has died after being pulled from a backyard pool during a party in Oakville, Ont. Halton Regional Police say they were called to an address near Speers Road and Third Line after 7 p.m.

Hamilton police say there is no longer a threat to public safety after a landlord allegedly shot and killed two tenants, barricaded himself in their home for hours and fired shots at police.

TORONTO — One man is in hospital with serious injuries after being stabbed at a subway station in Toronto's North York neighbourhood. Toronto police were called to the Downsview Park TTC station early Saturday morning.

PEMBROKE, Ont. — Ontario Provincial Police have identified two 16-year-old boys from Mississauga, Ont., as the victims of a fatal shooting northwest of Ottawa over the long weekend.

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, ONTARIO — Ontario Provincial Police are investigating after a child was found dead in Hamilton Township at the same address they had been reported missing from.

TORONTO — The University of Waterloo is waiving tuition fees for students from two First Nations whose traditional territory the institution is located on.

Police say a fourth suspect has been arrested and charged in the kidnapping of a woman who was abducted from a home in Ontario more than a year ago. Police have said Elnaz Hajtamiri was taken on Jan.

Nearly 99 per cent of nursing homes in Ontario now have air conditioning in residents’ rooms, almost a year after the province set a deadline for the requirement.

SAINT CATHARINES, Ont. — One man has been arrested and another is recovering from stab wounds following an attack on the Merritt Trail in St. Catharines Thursday afternoon.