Ontario News

TORONTO — Three children were wounded when gunfire broke out at a one-year-old's outdoor birthday party in northwest Toronto on Saturday evening, police said.

TORONTO — Ontario is reporting 355 new cases of COVID-19 today and 13 deaths linked to the virus. Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 58 new cases in Toronto, 54 in Waterloo and 45 in Peel Region.

Toronto police say they've made an arrest in what they've previously described as a suspected hate crime on the city's Island.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford shuffled his cabinet on Friday, introducing new members, ousting several others, and bringing back a minister who resigned last year after violating pandemic travel guidelines.

Ontarians who got a first shot of Oxford-AstraZeneca were cancelling appointments for second doses of that vaccine following new guidance from a national advisory group, pharmacists dealing with scrapped bookings said Friday.

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 4:45 p.m. The Federal Court of Canada has upheld the constitutionality of the federal government's quarantine hotel program.

DUTTON, Ont. — Police say a 67-year-old man is in hospital after his homebuilt aircraft crashed in southwestern Ontario on Thursday night. Emergency services were called after reports of the crash in a new subdivision in Dutton, Ont.

Some Ontario residents say they're finding it difficult to cancel their original COVID-19 vaccine appointments after securing earlier second shots.

TORONTO — More Ontarians will be able to book earlier second shots of a COVID-19 vaccine next week as the province prepares to receive millions of doses this month.

Ontario will pour $12.5 million into recruiting and training French teachers over the next four years in an effort to address a shortage made more stark by an increasing demand for second-language programs.