The Ford government announced $1.5 million more funding for a Black-focused council on youth opportunity, with at the same time Premier Doug Ford backtracking on a statement he made two days ago that Ontario doesn’t have the systemic racism experienced in the United States.
Restaurants and bars will be allowed to expand their patios onto sidewalks and into curb lanes as part of a new city program that is being rolled out in anticipation of their eventual reopening.
Days after calls for government intervention, the province has appointed a hospital to take over operations at a Woodbridge long-term care home struggling to contain an outbreak of COVID-19.
Canada's top doctor says the country has been successful at slowing the spread of COVID-19 but is warning that relaxing public health restrictions too quickly or too soon could lead to a rampant resurgence of the disease.
Ontario MPP Randy Hillier has released a statement, but stopped short of apologizing after he appeared to make light of a Black cabinet minister’s own experience with racism earlier this week.
A cyberattack on the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada website has affected the personal information of more than 329,000 members and stakeholders.
Bombardier Inc. says it will temporarily lay off 196 employees working on regional transit services in the Greater Toronto Area due to a steep decline in ridership numbers amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
More than a dozen inmates at an Ottawa jail are on a hunger strike over conditions at the institution, which they say have worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A court ruling allowing people accused of sexual assault or other violent crimes to argue they were so intoxicated they didn't know what they were doing has angered women's-rights activists but civil libertarians call the criticism unwarranted.
Toronto Public Health is calling on the federal and provincial governments to take "urgent action" to help combat the country's opioid overdose crisis, which has "intensified" in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nearly three quarters of small businesses weren’t able to pay their full rent payments in June and an even greater proportion say that they won’t be able to come up with enough money to make July’s rent, according to a survey of hundreds of commercial tenants.
Former Liberal cabinet minister Jane Philpott has been appointed as a special adviser to Ontario's PC government to assist in the development of the new health data platform that will better analyze information on COVID-19 in the province.
A Toronto judge says a former bar owner and his manager who were convicted in a violent, hours-long sexual assault saw women as "disposable instruments" for their sexual gratification.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is taking part in his third international summit in a week as Canada campaigns for a coveted United Nation's Security Council seat on a platform of helping to rebuild the post-pandemic world.
Nova Scotia RCMP say the gunman who claimed 22 lives in one of Canada's worst mass killings was an “injustice collector” whose personal grudges boiled over in rage.
Police say that a 34-year-old woman who was reported missing in the city’s west end on Wednesday “presents a public health safety risk” and should not be approached.
The death of a Toronto woman who fell from her 24th-floor balcony while police were in her home has renewed calls for an overhaul of how society deals with people in mental health crises.
Federal prison chaplains say the spiritual needs of inmates have become an unnecessary casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic at a time when offenders are feeling particularly vulnerable and alone.
The family of a woman who fell to her death following an interaction with police will not speak with SIU investigators in the wake of the apparent leak of details about the incident to a Toronto newspaper.
