Ontario News

TORONTO — Ontario is putting $91 million toward installing electric vehicle chargers at highway rest stops, carpool parking lots, parks and hockey arenas.

TORONTO — Pride Toronto says it's committed to "rectifying the harm" caused by problems in its management of $1.85 million in federal grants.

BRANTFORD, Ont. — Ontario Provincial Police say a 57-year-old man has died after a single-engine plane crash near Brantford Municipal Airport. OPP say they were called to an open field east of the airport Monday night.

TORONTO — Ontario's Progressive Conservatives have announced that Toronto's former police chief will run for them in the June election.

Ontario is reporting 639 people in hospital with COVID-19 and 179 in intensive care today. That's compared with 551 hospitalizations and 181 people in ICUs Monday. Seven more COVID-19 deaths are being reported today.

Three men are in stable condition in hospital after police responded to three separate overdose calls within one hour in Mississauga. Peel Regional Police say they were called to three different locations between 7:35 p.m. and 8:35 p.m.

WHITBY, Ont. — Police in a community northeast of Toronto say when they managed to stop a vehicle that sped past them at about 150 km/h, they found an 11-year-old boy at the wheel and a 12-year-old boy was his passenger.

TORONTO — Ontario residents were able to shop, see a movie, and take in a hockey game without wearing a mask for the first time in about a year-and-a-half as the province lifted face-covering mandates for most public spaces Monday.

Ontario introduced legislation Monday with measures aimed at tackling blockades at international border crossings like the one at the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor that disrupted trade with the U.S. last month.

A coroner's inquest is set to examine the death of a man who was fatally injured while working at a Mississauga, Ont., construction site. The Ministry of the Solicitor General says Fernando Santos died on Jan. 23, 2018 at the age of 59.