Ontario News

TORONTO — Anniversaries matter to high school sweethearts Cassandra Engineer and Mackenzie Cleveland. They remember the date and exact time — down to the minute — that they became a couple.

TORONTO — Ontario is making changes to improve the home and community care system, in the hopes it helps keep people out of hospital who don't need to be there.

TORONTO — Ontario's education minister came out swinging Tuesday against the Catholic teachers' union a day after negotiations were scuttled by what he said were new benefits demands.

TORONTO — A man accused of killing a Toronto woman with a hammer has had his murder charge updated to include terrorism activity.

Toronto police say they've charged a teenager with murder after a fatal stabbing at a business in the city's north end. They say officers responded to a call for a stabbing at 12:40 p.m. on Monday.

GATINEAU, Que. — Police in Gatineau, Que., say a 39-year-old woman already facing a manslaughter charge in the death of a three-month-old baby in an apartment fire last August now faces a similar charge in the death of a man in the same fire.

Protesters have set up a blockade on a popular commuter rail line near Hamilton halting passenger train service.

TORONTO — Ontario's public elementary teachers are threatening more job action in two weeks — and they aren't ruling out a full strike.

TORONTO — The candidates vying to become the new leader of Ontario's Liberal party will have to agree to agree.

MONTREAL — Tensions mounted Monday in Mohawk communities near Montreal after Ontario Provincial Police moved in on a rail blockade in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.