Ontario News

Ontario has committed to paying a third of the cost to save a $5-billion electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor, Ont., premier Doug Ford said Thursday.

TORONTO — Ontario renewed funding Thursday that helps rural and northern hospitals bolster emergency room staffing through the summer, but the program will end after this year, the government said.

TORONTO — Brad Treliving spoke with family, friends and close confidants. Every conversation ended in similar fashion. It's Toronto. It's the Maple Leafs. "Until you're here, you don't really understand it," Treliving said of hockey's biggest market.

Two tenants allegedly shot dead by their landlord over the weekend were just days away from moving out of their Hamilton apartment and into a new home to start "the next chapter of their lives," their families said Thursday.

TORONTO — The head of Ontario's cannabis distributor says the "race to the bottom" happening with pot prices risks hurting the market's future.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — The Toronto Rock are moving once again, this time only temporarily. The National Lacrosse League franchise announced Thursday that it will move to the Paramount Fine Foods Centre in Mississauga, Ont.

MEAFORD, Ont. — An order to refrain from drinking the water from the municipal system in Meaford, Ont., has been lifted.

TORONTO — Canada Soccer's disciplinary panel has fined Toronto FC an undisclosed amount money in connection with rowdy fan behaviour during a Canadian Championship game against CF Montreal on May 9 at BMO Field.

Ottawa's light rail transit service will be partially shut down for maintenance from June 5 to 19. OC Transpo says the closures will happen in the evenings to minimize the impact on commuters.

TORONTO — An intergenerational saga about a family that runs a beachfront hotel has won the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Jasmine Sealy took home the $60,000 prize for "The Island of Forgetting.