Ontario News

Ontario says it is providing more stand-alone HEPA filter units for schools and child-care centres to offer more children greater protection against COVID-19.

PICKERING, Ont. — Police say a 72-year-old woman has been charged with second-degree murder after a woman's body was found in a wooded area near a creek in Pickering, Ont.

TORONTO — Pandemic recovery, housing and affordability will be top of mind for Ontario's party leaders as the legislature resumes sitting Tuesday for the last few weeks of the session ahead of a June election.

TORONTO — City police have identified a man who was shot and killed in Toronto over the weekend. The shooting happened early Saturday morning in the Keele St. and Flamborough Dr. area. Police say officers responding to the call around 1:17 a.m.

Ontario Provincial Police say a person has died after a two vehicle crash in the Township of Springwater. They say a pickup truck collided with a passenger vehicle at the intersection of County Rd. 90 and George Johnston Rd. late Sunday afternoon.

RENFREW, Ont. — Provincial police have charged a 27-year-old Petawawa, Ont., man with manslaughter and dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death.

A township in southern Ontario says it has declared a state of emergency due to significant winter weather conditions.

Police say a 23-year-old man has died from an overnight snowmobile crash on Six Mile Lake in southern Ontario. They say officers responded to the crash at the west shoreline of Walpole Island just before 2 a.m. Sunday.

TORONTO — Ontario is reporting 1,056 COVID-19-related hospitalizations and in the province today along with 324 patients in intensive care. That's 135 fewer patients in hospital compared to numbers reported on Saturday.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — The City of Brampton says water is receding in the Churchville Road area, allowing residents to temporarily return to homes that were affected by flooding earlier this week.