10 h. ago Teen charged in horrific attack on Ontario child police initially attributed to an animal

Ontario Provincial Police say a 17-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder and sexual assault in the attack on an eight-year-old child.

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14 h. ago Ontario bakers look to heat up friendly competition with B.C. over Nanaimo bar record

In the kitchen of Northwest Fudge Factory in Levack, Ont., a group of five children spent the better part of a day last month mixing hundreds of kilograms of butter, sugar, chocolate and graham crackers before carefully spreading distinct layers on top of each other. The result was a 544-kilogram Nanaimo bar that they claimed […]

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14 h. ago First Nations call for Ontario environment minister’s resignation

Several dozen First Nations in Ontario are calling for the resignation of the province’s environment minister after he asked the federal government to not reintroduce a bill that would enshrine clean drinking water rights in law. Last month, Todd McCarthy and Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz wrote to federal Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin asking her […]

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19 h. ago Cuts at Ontario colleges leading to nearly 10,000 job losses, union says

The Ontario Public Service Employees Union says close to 10,000 college faculty and staff have either been let go or are projected to lose their jobs amid hundreds of program cancellations and suspensions since last year. The union representing some 55,000 college faculty and support staff says that amounts to “one of the largest mass […]

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22 h. ago Quarter of Ontario mutual fund dealers have sold unneeded products: Survey

A regulator-led survey of Ontario mutual fund dealers based out of big banks shows a sizable minority are not always acting in the interest of clients. The survey of close to 3,000 dealers by the Ontario Securities Commission and the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization found that 25 per cent say they have at least sometimes […]

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42 h. ago 3 arrested, 1 wanted after Ontario man found dead in crash was kidnapped

Ontario Provincial Police are looking for a 51-year-old Guelph man allegedly involved in the kidnapping and assault of another man in May.

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45 h. ago 4 Ontario men charged after 33 hydro poles cut down for their copper

The Ontario Provincial Police say four men are facing charges after 33 hydro poles were cut down and the copper wires were stolen off the poles.

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69 h. ago Summer outing turns tragic after toddler drowns in St. Lawrence River

A day by the water had a devastating outcome when Ontario Provincial Police responded to a toddler drowning in the St. Lawrence River last week.

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2 d. ago Escaped murderer from Quebec may be hiding out in Ontario, police say

Ontario Provincial Police say a convicted murderer who recently escaped from a Quebec prison may be hiding out in southwestern Ontario.

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4 d. ago Toddler dead after drowning in St. Lawrence River near Kingston

Police say a toddler has died after drowning in the St. Lawrence River near Kingston, Ont., on Friday morning. Ontario Provincial Police say they were called to Wolfe Island at around 9:30 a.m. after an unresponsive toddler was found in the river. They say family members and first responders began life-saving measures and the toddler […]

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5 d. ago Minister planning to table First Nations water bill despite provincial opposition

OTTAWA — The federal minister of Indigenous services says her government plans to reintroduce legislation to ensure First Nations’ rights to clean drinking water — despite calls from Alberta and Ontario for it to scrap the bill altogether. Two provincial environment ministers sent a letter to their federal counterpart this week calling on Prime Minister […]

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5 d. ago Ontario teens charged again after rocks thrown at moving cars, causing crash

Ontario Provincial Police said they have laid charges in connection with a wave of rock-throwing incidents that caused seriously injuries in Markham last fall.

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5 d. ago Police, province offer new details in acid spill that closed Hwy. 402 lanes

Hwy. 402 reopened Friday following a crash that provincial officials say spilled 100 litres of acid and led to a shutdown along the westbound lanes of the London-area highway. Ontario Provincial Police say it was Wednesday afternoon when a big rig carrying 45,000 litres of monochloroacetic acid was “cut off” by a passenger vehicle on […]

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6 d. ago Crash spills 45,000 litres of acid, closes Hwy. 402 lanes: OPP

A big rig carrying 45,000 litres of acid crashed into the ditch along Hwy. 402 on Wednesday afternoon, closing a section of the westbound lanes, police say. Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Ed Sanchuk said it was about 1 p.m. on Wednesday when a passenger vehicle “cut off” a transport truck, which crashed into the ditch. […]

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7 d. ago Man dies after diving into shallow water at Ipperwash Beach: OPP

Police say a 44-year-old man has died after diving from a vessel into shallow water at Ipperwash Beach on Lake Huron. Ontario Provincial Police say they responded to a call at about 6:20 p.m. on Sunday in the municipality of Lambton Shores and found an unresponsive individual on the beach. Police say the man was […]

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7 d. ago $50K reward offered in case of Kincardine woman missing for 37 years

Thirty-seven years after her disappearance, the Ontario government is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the location of Lois Hanna. Hanna — then 25 — was last seen on Sunday, July 3, 1988, at the Lucknow Homecoming Dance in Kincardine. She and her brothers had gone to elementary school there. A missing persons […]

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7 d. ago Ontario expanding publicly funded hip, knee surgeries at private clinics

Ontario is expanding the delivery of publicly paid orthopedic surgeries through private clinics in an effort to reduce wait lists. Ontario is investing $125 million to add upwards of 20,000 orthopedic surgeries at community surgical centres over the next two years. Health Minister Sylvia Jones says the expansion will reduce wait times for hip and […]

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8 d. ago Person killed on shoulder of Hwy. 401 in eastern Ontario: OPP

LANDSDOWNE, Ont. — Ontario Provincial Police in Leeds County are investigating a fatal collision that happened early Tuesday morning on Hwy. 401 between Mallorytown and Landsdowne. Police say they received reports at approximately 5:30 a.m. that a person who had exited their car was struck and killed by a moving vehicle while on the shoulder […]

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8 d. ago Police probe fourth Pride flag incident in rural township this spring

Police are investigating another theft of a rainbow Pride flag in Norwich – the fourth incident this spring involving stolen or vandalized flags in the area. Two unknown men took the flag from a residence on Jerdon Street on Saturday at 1 a.m., Ontario Provincial Police said. The suspects are described as shirtless white men […]

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1 week ago Ontario park with ancient volcano and giant cliffs looks like 4km

Just east of Thunder Bay, Ontario, a huge silhouette stretches along the horizon of along Lake Superior. It looks just like a huge, sleeping human stretching kilometres— and the namesake of a popular provincial park. That natural rock formation is known as the Sleeping Giant, the eroded remains of an ancient volcano that erupted nearly 1.1 billion years ago during the Midcontinent Rift. The park, aptly named Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, sits along the north shore of Lake Superior on the Sibley Peninsula. It boasts wide landscapes and massive lakeside cliffs, a wonder to anyone curious enough to visit. At Sleeping Giant, see cliffs that are almost 250 meters wide. Photo: Brester Irina/ShutterstockThe Sleeping Giant's mass formation of rocks resembles a row of mesas and cliffs that appear to form an almost four-kilometre-long body, seemingly snoozing in the distance, complete with cliffs that resemble a face, a chest, and a stomach. The cliffs car...

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