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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Five people have been charged after they allegedly applied for Ontario COVID relief funding using “fictitious or ineligible businesses,” police say. Ontario Provincial Police announced the charges against four Ajax residents and one Ottawa resident Monday after a “lengthy investigation” involving the …

The man accused in the hit-and-run death of Boris Brott has been found guilty of dangerous driving causing death. Arsenije Lojovic, 35, was convicted on three driving charges following a justice’s decision at a Hamilton court late Monday morning. He also was accused of failing to remain after the fatal …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Manitoba government is putting approximately $8 million toward wastewater infrastructure projects in the city of Winnipeg, the province announced Monday. Building on the city’s long-term combined sewer overflow project, the province is spending $7.5 million for the southwest sewer interceptor project …

Dr. Jennifer Hulme thought her COVID-19 infection was just “average.” She recovered in a matter of days and went back to work. Several weeks later she was incapacitated. “I woke up completely disabled, profoundly ill (and) completely changed from my previous self,” the Toronto emergency room doctor said. The avid …

Ontario Provincial Police say they are looking for a federal offender wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for “breach of his day parole.” Police said 23-year-old Rahul Sahota is currently serving a five-year, five-month and five-day sentence for two counts of possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking and possession …

Sun Valley Market, a local institution in Toronto’s Birchmount Park, will be closing its doors for good at the end of July. The grocery store, which has been located at Danforth Avenue and Birchmount Road, first opened its doors in 1986 and will close on July 29th. The original Sun …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size RCMP in Manitoba are looking for a suspect who allegedly stole from a business in Selkirk on Friday. At 10:30 a.m. police say they went to a business on Morris Avenue for reports of a robbery. Police say a man wearing a …

There is growing pushback amongst residents in Hillhurst to a proposed residential development on a vacant lot along 10 Street N.W., formerly home to the Kensington Manor apartment building. The Kensington Manor building was demolished in April 2020 after it was deemed structurally unsafe and tenants of the seven-storey building …

Ontario’s police oversight agency says the extent of injuries suffered by a 28-year-old London man is “highly regrettable” but it has found no reason to lay any criminal charges against the officer handling the service dog that injured him. The unidentified man was bit several times in the buttocks, left …

Weeks after his dramatic, last-minute endorsement of Ana Bailão in Toronto’s mayoral byelection, John Tory is calling Scarborough residents to offer a fresh recommendation. The former Toronto mayor and Progressive Conservative leader has been enlisted to push Doug Ford’s candidate in a Scarborough byelection set for the end of July. …