Ontario News

TORONTO — Ontario is facing growing calls to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for non-essential activities and health-care workers as infections rise, but the government is urging people to focus less on daily case counts and more on hospitalizations.

TORONTO — The prosecution is seeking a short sentence behind bars for a teen found guilty of sexually assaulting another student at an all-boys school in Toronto.

An Ottawa man and his former lover have been found guilty of first-degree murder in the grisly slaying of his wife.

TORONTO — COVID-19 cases appear to be on the rise in Ontario again and business groups are calling for a vaccine certificate system as a means to avoid another lockdown.

Toronto police have identified two men killed in a Sunday shooting as a 27-year-old man from Markham, Ont., and a 32-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont.

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. — American tourists returned to the Niagara Region for the first time in more than a year on Monday, eager to see the thundering falls, take in the area's attractions and explore nearby wine country.

TORONTO — Two men are dead and another two others were injured in an early morning shooting in Toronto's Kensington Market area.

TORONTO — Ontario has risen above 400 new daily COVID-19 cases for the first time since mid-June. The Ministry of Health is reporting 423 new infections and six deaths from the virus.

TORONTO — William Davis, the 18th premier of Ontario and one of the country's longest-serving premiers, has died at 92. A statement from his family says Davis died in Brampton, Ont. this morning of natural causes.

TORONTO — For more than four decades, Christine Mak travelled every year to Disney parks and various conventions to commune with fellow fans of fantasy and science fiction.