Ontario News

MONTREAL — A motorcyclist has died after an accident involving a tractor trailer in St-Nazaire-d'Acton, in the Monteregie region of Quebec.

MONTREAL — Tributes are pouring in for Joseph Tokwiro Norton, the longtime grand chief of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake and an influential Indigenous leader who died Friday.

RED LAKE, Ont. — Persistent heavy rain has helped firefighters regain control over a wildfire that forced the evacuation of a northwestern Ontario town.

QUEBEC — An all-party Quebec committee looking at helping victims and survivors of sexual and conjugal violence say they stand behind a legal clinic following the recent departure of its founder due to misconduct allegations.

TORONTO — Ontario is reporting 106 new cases of COVID-19 and one new death related to the virus. The total number of cases now stands at 40,565, which includes 2,789 deaths and 36,783 cases marked as resolved.

TORONTO — Ontario school boards said Friday their reserve funds are already budgeted for high-priority initiatives not related to the COVID-19 pandemic and should not be used to lower class sizes and hire new teachers, as the government is asking the

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Police west of Toronto say officers rescued a seven-year-old boy who was hanging from a sixth floor balcony. Peel police say the boy was playing near the window in the apartment building in Mississauga, Ont.

TORONTO — The Canadian Armed Forces says minor problems remain in some Ontario long-term care homes they were deployed to earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic. But critics say this does not mean the homes have a clean bill of health.

RED LAKE, Ont. — Heavy rain has helped firefighters in the battle against a wildfire that has forced the evacuation of a town in northwestern Ontario.

TORONTO — A Toronto strip club where as many as 550 people may have been exposed to COVID-19 last week was not following public health guidelines, officials said Friday.