Ontario News

ATTAWAPISKAT, Ont. — Ontario Provincial Police say they have charged a man in the 1973 killing of a woman in a remote northern First Nation.

TORONTO — A new poll suggests Canadians are roughly split down the middle when it comes to handing out Halloween candy this year.

TORONTO — The Ontario NDP is facing division among its ranks after party leader Marit Stiles booted a rookie legislator out of caucus, dousing one political firestorm, but in turn sparking another.

TORONTO — Police say a 17-year-old boy has been rushed to hospital after being found with a stab wound on the steps of a Toronto high school. They say officers responded shortly before 1 p.m.

TORONTO — Ontario's public high school teachers are now turning to binding arbitration to get a new contract, as bargaining has concluded with the union unable to reach a negotiated deal with the province.

TORONTO — Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard is expected to continue testifying in his own defence today at his sexual assault trial in Toronto.

TORONTO — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland agreed to convene a meeting with the finance ministers to discuss Alberta's proposal to withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan.

TORONTO — Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard told a jury Wednesday that "under no circumstances" could someone get locked inside his private suite at his company's Toronto building, as there were several exit options.

TORONTO — Ontario's big cities say they could lose out on millions of dollars in provincial funding for housing-related infrastructure due to factors beyond their control, unless the government makes a simple change to the criteria.

OTTAWA — Ontario Provincial Police are warning that a medium-sized wildcat has escaped from an animal sanctuary in Bonnechere Valley, Ont., about 130 kilometres west of Ottawa. Police say the African serval cat could attack livestock and pets.