Ontario News

TORONTO — A Toronto police officer has been charged with sexual assault and breach of trust following an investigation by Ontario's police watchdog. The Special Investigations Unit says the constable faces one count of each charge.

TORONTO — Ontario wants to expand a licensing regime that allows residents to unleash dogs in an enclosed area to teach them how to hunt captive coyotes, foxes and rabbits.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Religious groups and cultural and Indigenous communities in Ontario will soon be able to apply for grants of up to $10,000 to protect their facilities from hate-motivated crimes.

Abida Suboor's commute to campus has been tougher in the last few weeks. The graduate student uses GO Transit to get from her home in Milton, Ont.

TORONTO — Ontario's minister of municipal affairs and housing is moving forward with audits of six municipalities to see if there will be any "potential or perceived" financial hits from a provincial housing law.

TORONTO — A backlog of cases at Ontario's Landlord and Tenant Board has grown to 38,000 and it is taking an average of seven or eight months – sometimes up to two years – for a hearing to be scheduled, the province's ombudsman said Thursday.

The University of Waterloo is ending its research partnership with Chinese tech giant Huawei this year in an effort to "safeguard" scientific research at the school. The move will mark the end of an agreement that has been in place since 2016.

The sons of a renowned Indigenous artist wept on Thursday at an inquest into their father's death, criticizing the failure to treat his mental health struggles before he died by suicide in a Thunder Bay jail.

Communities in eastern Ontario declared local states of emergency over flood risks as water levels on the Ottawa River were expected to peak Thursday.

BURLINGTON, ONTARIO — A 21-year-old man has been charged in a hit-and-run outside a school in Burlington, Ont., that left an eight-year-old girl dead.