Ontario News

Ottawa's light-rail transit service has fully resumed after a month-long hiatus. A fleet of between nine to 13 single-car trains — varying with ridership peaks — will run along the entirety of the LRT's east-west line for the rest of August.

TORONTO — Ontario spent about $766 million more than planned in the first quarter of this fiscal year, but the province's bottom line is the same since nearly all of that new spending came from contingency funds.

VAUGHAN, Ont. — Two people are dead after a house fire in Vaughan, Ontario, north of Toronto. The York Regional Police say they were called at approximately 2:30 p-m on Saturday to respond to a house on fire.

Toronto’s popular Greektown street festival has returned for the first time in four years. Taste of the Danforth is running from Aug. 11 to Aug. 13.

TORONTO — At 4:11 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2003, the system supervisor in the control room overseeing Ontario's electrical grid saw four alarms pop up on his computer screen. Then came 30,000 more.

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — Ontario's police watchdog is investigating the death of a 28-year-old man following an interaction with police in Peterborough.

Toronto firefighters have extinguished the majority of a blaze at an industrial site where chemicals were stored, the deputy fire chief said, adding that the incident no longer posed a public safety risk.

Police say a man who is believed to have fallen off his balcony near Toronto's waterfront has died, while another man who was struck by the falling person was left with serious injuries.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont.

CALGARY — A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for a 52-year-old man whom police say failed to return to a psychiatric hospital in Calgary last week.