Ontario News

OTTAWA — Canada's consul general in New York has been given a second opportunity to testify before a House of Commons committee about his official residence, which the government recently purchased for $9 million.

TORONTO — Trouble in BMO Financial Group's loan book has once again weighed on its quarterly results, prompting analyst worries about the bank becoming an outlier in this credit cycle.

TORONTO — Toronto is developing criteria to determine which sites would be acceptable for commercial dog walkers to use across the city, as a ban on the walkers at an off-leash area in one park has brought the issue under the spotlight.

HAMILTON — Hamilton police are searching for three suspects who allegedly used a popular dating app to set up a meeting with a 20-year-old man they then robbed at gunpoint.

OTTAWA — Canada's Governor General will attend Wednesday's opening ceremonies of the Paralympic Games in Paris as part of a trip to France.

NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. — A 17-year-old from Ontario who was about to start his studies at the University of British Columbia is dead after climbing over a fence and falling off a cliff in a popular Metro Vancouver park.

Violent crimes involving guns – including homicides, shootings and carjackings – have surged in York Region since the start of the year, police said Tuesday, calling the increase troubling for the area north of Toronto.

EAST GARAFRAXA, Ontario (AP) — Julie Thurgood-Burnett had no idea that her COVID-19 lockdown whim of starting a lavender patch on her husband's family farm outside Toronto would turn into a small business.

TORONTO — The Bank of Nova Scotia saw third-quarter profits fall compared with a year ago as it boosted its provisions for bad loans, even as the bank says it's seeing some levelling out of the financial stress on Canadian consumers.

TORONTO — Former "Jeopardy" champion Mattea Roach will helm CBC's new literary radio show. Roach has been tapped to host "Bookends," which will replace "Writers & Company" as the broadcaster's Sunday books programming.