Ontario News

DRYDEN, Ont. — Seventeen new wildfires are burning in Northwestern Ontario as evacuations continue for thousands of people living in remote and rural areas of the province.

TORONTO — Ontario has asked the federal government to ensure Canadians who received mixed COVID-19 vaccines will be recognized for international travel as border measures lift.

Ontario's police watchdog has cleared two officers who fatally shot a 73-year-old man during an exchange of gunfire last summer.

The number and size of wildfires in northern Ontario this year are substantially higher than average, and have forced thousands of people to flee First Nations communities, the government said Monday.

BRANTFORD, Ont. — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says a helicopter pilot has survived a crash in southwestern Ontario after she appears to have clipped some power lines.

TORONTO — Ontario is reporting 172 new cases of COVID-19 and two more deaths. There are 48 new cases in Toronto, 23 in Peel Region, 11 in Durham Region and 11 in Hamilton. Those cases were found among 13,900 tests completed in the previous day.

TORONTO — The staff at Kim Yeaman's child care centre spend time filling, emptying into the garbage, and cleaning 15 small bins for sensory materials like sand to comply with COVID-19 policies, and recently she has been wondering why.

LONDON, Ont. — A man in London, Ont., is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after police found him on fire following an alleged assault.

Toronto police are asking for the public's help to find a man they allege robbed and repeatedly punched a woman in the face. Police say they got a call on Sunday, July 4 at about 6:30 p.m.

TORONTO — Ontario is reporting 170 new cases of COVID-19 and three more deaths. In Toronto, there are 44 new cases, with another 26 in Peel Region, 17 in Hamilton, 15 in the Region of Waterloo and 13 in Grey Bruce.