Ontario News

Toronto's public health unit is reporting the city’s first probable human case of the West Nile virus this year. Toronto Public Health says in a news release on Friday that an adult resident contracted the virus.

TORONTO — Ontario Education Minister Todd Smith resigned his seat and from cabinet Friday to accept a job in the private sector less than three months after being given the education portfolio, prompting Premier Doug Ford to shuffle his cabinet.

TORONTO — He's always in it to win it but Kevin Attard would gladly settle for a four-horse dead heat Saturday in the $1-million King's Plate.

TORONTO — Toronto Fire Services say a two-storey downtown building has been evacuated and is at risk of collapsing due to a compromised roof. Deputy Fire Chief Jim Jessop says around 10 a.m.

SMITHS FALLS, Ont. — Canopy Growth Corp. says chief executive David Klein is retiring next year. The cannabis company says Klein will call it quits at the end of the company's current financial year on March 31, 2025.

OTTAWA — The annual pace of housing starts in July climbed 16 per cent compared with June as starts of multi-unit projects shot higher for the month, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says.

TORONTO — Toronto police say a man who fled to El Salvador roughly two decades ago has been returned to Canada to face a second-degree murder charge in the death of his wife.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales fell 2.1 per cent to $69.6 billion in June, as sales for the transportation equipment, chemical product and primary metal subsectors moved lower.

TORONTO — If you've noticed kids' conversations sound a little different this back-to-school season, you're not alone. Words like "skibidi," "sigma" and "gyatt" now pepper tweens' sentences, and "Ohio" is more than just a U.S.

INNISFIL, Ont. — Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after two 19-year-olds were shot by officers in Innisfil, with one of them dying.