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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Men from Oakville and Hamilton are facing charges after Waterloo regional police uncovered a renovation fraud scheme which had occurred across southern Ontario. According to police, the scam would see two suspects telling victims that they were in the financial advice and …
Read More »Honda Indy Toronto benefits Ontario tourism as organizers seek contract renewal
TORONTO — Although Christian Lundgaard stood atop the podium after the Honda Indy Toronto, local tourism may have been the real winner. The four-day racing event at Toronto’s Exhibition Place drew 148,000 attendees in 2022 and organizers say it drew even more this summer. Andrew Weir, executive vice-president of Destination …
Read More »Ontario regions face ambulance pressures; province won’t release offload delay data
Several Ontario municipalities say their paramedic services are under immense pressure, with worrying stretches of times during which no ambulances are available to respond to calls — but the province doesn’t track the problem. The government does have data on the hours paramedics spend waiting in emergency rooms to transfer …
Read More »Ontario children’s centre owner, sex offender living there charged with human trafficking
The owner of an Ontario centre that offers services for children with autism, and a convicted sex offender who Ontario Provincial Police said was living at the facility, are both facing human trafficking charges. The news comes days after police issued a rare warning that a sex offender was living …
Read More »Packing ‘a punch’: Thunderstorms expected, tornadoes possible for southwestern Ontario
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Thursday could shape up to be “the most widespread severe weather day” in southwestern Ontario so far this season, according to Global News chief meteorologist Anthony Farnell. A system coming in from the western Great Lakes is “packing a bit of a …
Read More »Quebec gondola crash: Ontario victim identified as Canadian soldier, probe continues
The owner of a drilling company involved in a fatal gondola crash at a popular resort in Quebec over the weekend is speaking out. In a statement released on Monday, Forage M2P president Maxime Patry acknowledged that one of its employees was operating a drilling machine at Station Mont Tremblant …
Read More »‘Mucked this one up’: Ford government under fire for King’s Counsel appointments
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is facing calls to rescind the King’s Counsel appointments given to lawyers within the Progressive Conservative caucus, as the government faces backlash over a growing patronage scandal. The government unveiled a list of 91 lawyers on June 30 who would receive the long-abandoned designation, allowing them …
Read More »Ontario warns parents to avoid centre where police say man convicted of trafficking children lives
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to reflect the government statement was sent by Ontario’s Solicitor General’s office. The provincial government is warning parents to avoid an Ontario centre offering services to children with autism after police said a man previously convicted of trafficking children is living at the …
Read More »Quebec gondola crash: Dead man from Ontario identified, woman remains critical
An Ontario woman in her 50s remains in hospital in critical condition on Monday after a deadly gondola crash at Quebec’s Mont-Tremblant resort over the weekend. Quebec provincial police said the incident happened just before noon on Sunday, when a drilling machine struck two cabins on the moving gondola. Sgt. …
Read More »5 charged in Ontario COVID relief funds fraud: police
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 …
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