Ontario News

TORONTO — The Ontario Liberals say the party has 80,000 members eligible to vote in the upcoming leadership race, the highest number in its history.

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TORONTO — Ontario is holding consultations with colleges, universities and municipalities this fall on student housing, the colleges and universities minister said Monday, as a key report looking at post-secondary funding is expected soon.

TORONTO — The number of charges in the Toronto sexual-assault case against Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard have been reduced from 11 to six.

TORONTO — Ontario's new minister of municipal affairs and housing suggests the province may not move forward with a review of six regions with both upper- and lower-tier municipal governments.

Federal prosecutors say the charges against a man accused of a triple stabbing targeting a gender studies class at the University of Waterloo amount to terrorism offences.

A hazardous-waste management company and its directors are facing 84 charges after a fire at a St. Catharines-Ont. waste plant earlier this year killed a worker and led to the evacuation of nearby homes. St.

TORONTO — A Toronto police officer is facing criminal charges in the February shooting of a man who was left with serious injuries. Ontario's police watchdog said officers had responded to a park for a report of a man with a knife.

TORONTO — The largest local bargaining unit of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation has told members it opposes a tentative agreement between the provincial union and the government that would avoid the possibility of strikes.

Some eastern Ontario hospitals are bringing back mask requirements in patient-care areas as the respiratory virus season approaches.