Ontario News

TORONTO — More than 50,000 education workers in Ontario began voting Thursday on whether they want to accept a tentative deal their union struck with the provincial government over the weekend.

Toronto police say a 20-year-old cyclist in a Yonge Street crosswalk has been hit and killed by a pickup truck. Police say officers responded around 4:30 p.m.

TORONTO — When Emma Hudgins was born, her parents planted an ash tree. It's still standing 29 years later in New Maryland, N.B., but it's under threat from the emerald ash borer, a shiny green beetle that kills almost every ash tree it encounters.

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — Ontario Provincial Police have identified the four people who died after a head-on collision east of Peterborough. Police say an SUV and pickup truck crashed Tuesday at around 5:15 p.m. on Highway 7 near Drummond Line.

TORONTO — A group of residents and businesses have filed a proposed class action lawsuit over an explosion in a small Ontario town, alleging negligence by the municipality and a company hired to find the source of a gas leak that led to the blast.

BURLINGTON, ONT. — The mayor of a city west of Toronto says municipal employees will have to wear masks for the next six weeks amid rising illnesses among staff and in the wider community. Marianne Meed Ward, mayor of Burlington, Ont.

TORONTO — A Toronto police officer who shot a distraught teen on an empty streetcar argued Wednesday that an inquest should examine whether the youth may have died by "suicide by cop" – a suggestion the teen's family decried as painful and prejudicia

Hamilton's mayor has called for an investigation after city staff discovered that a pipe had been dumping sewage into the local harbour undetected for 26 years.

TORONTO — Ontario has asked thousands of family health-care workers to work evenings and weekends to help ease the burden on overwhelmed children's hospitals, a government memo obtained by The Canadian Press shows.

TORONTO — The union representing public high school teachers in Ontario says it was the victim of a ransomware attack earlier this year that compromised members' personal information.