Ontario News

TORONTO — Ontario's lieutenant governor will deliver a throne speech on Aug. 9. The government announced the date for Elizabeth Dowdeswell's speech on Thursday.

Toronto police are notifying the public about armed robberies related to Kijiji listings. The force says officers responded to reports of robberies in the city's downtown core on July 9 and this Monday.

TORONTO — Babies and preschoolers received stickers and plenty of praise upon getting their first COVID-19 vaccinations on Thursday as Ontario opened appointments for the shots to the youngest cohort.

ARNPRIOR, Ont. — Ottawa Fire Services has confirmed a firefighter has died while skydiving at the Arnprior airport. OPP say officers from the Renfrew detachment responded to a skydiving accident at the airport west of Ottawa around 1 p.m. Wednesday.

TORONTO — Police, a provincial transit corporation and a transport safety agency were investigating Wednesday after a four-year-old child was hit and killed by a GO train in Mississauga, Ont.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Peel Regional Police say a child has died after being struck by a train in Mississauga, Ont. Police say the child was struck on Tuesday night and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Mayors in parts of eastern Ontario hit by a tornado said Tuesday the resilience of their rural communities was on display as they recover from a third major storm in nearly two months.

TORONTO — Ontario's government faced a call Tuesday to establish a permanent 10-day paid sick leave program in light of rising cases of monkeypox.

Andrea Horwath, who helmed Ontario's NDP for more than a decade before stepping down last month, announced a plan Tuesday to run for mayor in her hometown of Hamilton.

TORONTO — An Ontario nurses union says it fears health-care staffing shortages may worsen in the Toronto area after a hospital network in the city had to use nursing students and medical residents to backstop an emergency department over the weekend.