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TORONTO — A longtime Toronto legislator has been named interim leader of Ontario's New Democrats as the Official Opposition party gears up for a leadership contest.

Nearly seven years after her mother was murdered, Valerie Warmerdam remains furious over systemic inaction on intimate partner violence and wants to see change.

TORONTO — Ontario's new natural resources minister is facing a hearing to determine whether he harmed a threatened turtle species when he was the mayor of a small town.

VAUGHAN, Ont. — Police are looking for a suspect after a 91-year-old woman was allegedly sexually assaulted while walking on a path in Vaughan, Ont., last month.

TORONTO — A 32-year-old man has been arrested and charged after police allege he sexually assaulted a girl at Toronto's Bloor-Yonge subway station last week.

Three people are dead and one person is being treated in hospital after an overnight stabbing in Ottawa. Ottawa police say officers were called to a location on Anoka Street at 10:30 p.m. on Monday.

Hamilton police are investigating three separate shootings that took place within the span of about an hour Monday night. The first took place at approximately 10:30 p.m. at an Air B&B at Mohawk Rd W. and Magnolia Dr.

A small central Ontario town is rallying around the family of a young child who died after he was mistakenly left in a hot car, the mayor said Monday

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford defended his decision Monday to name his nephew minister of citizenship and multiculturalism, saying the newly elected legislator has spent years representing one of the most diverse communities in the province.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford, whose previous government said it was stymied by municipalities in making further progress on housing supply, said Monday he will have a very "aggressive" plan moving forward.