Ontario News

TORONTO — Toronto's Zach Edey is one of the most hotly anticipated NBA prospects to come out of Canada in several years. But if he ends up on his hometown Raptors or another team remains to be seen.

OTTAWA — The annual inflation rate unexpectedly ticked higher in May, raising doubts about what the Bank of Canada will do when it makes its next interest rate decision in July in "bumpy and choppy" conditions.

The former deputy chief of the Ottawa police force has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman more than a decade ago, Ontario's police watchdog said Tuesday.

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. — Police in Sault Ste. Marie have deemed the deaths of a wife and husband last month a murder-suicide. The Sault Ste. Marie Police Service says officers responded to a call on May 1, and arrived to find a husband and wife dead.

TORONTO — A criminal network has been dismantled and eight people are facing dozens of auto theft, robbery and firearms charges, Ontario Provincial Police said Tuesday, as they announced the results of an investigation born out of a provincial carjac

TORONTO — Gold medallist Maude Charron, of Rimouski, Que., will lead Canada's two-person weightlifting team at the Paris Olympics. Charron, who won weightlifting gold at the Tokyo Games in 2021, will compete in the women's 59-kilogram event in Paris.

TORONTO — Mustafa Ahmed is making history as the first artist to win the Prism Prize twice.

TORONTO — An urban Toronto riding that has been a Liberal-safe seat for three decades appears to be on the verge of falling to the Tories in an upset win for Pierre Poilievre and his Conservatives.

OTTAWA — The Liberal government's changes to capital gains taxation came into effect Tuesday, despite significant pushback from business and physicians' groups.

TORONTO — A musical adaptation of a portion of Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" took home a leading four prizes in the musical theatre division at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards on Monday night.