Ontario News

TORONTO — An Ontario school trustee who the province's education minister sought to fire through legislation has now resigned.

An Ontario judge has stayed first-degree murder charges against three men in an alleged "execution-style" killing after concluding that their Charter rights were violated at a Milton, Ont., incarceration facility.

TORONTO — Education Minister Paul Calandra said Thursday that if an Ontario school board doesn't restore prom plans for three of its high schools that cancelled them, he will step in and do it.

Provincial police say they've identified the remains of a second victim in an ongoing Simcoe, Ont., homicide investigation.

Police in London, Ont., say a 34-year-old woman is facing multiple charges after allegedly damaging a conference building with a hammer as part of a protest on Tuesday. They allege the woman from Owen Sound, Ont.

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after a suspect linked to a homicide investigation and a now-cancelled Amber Alert was shot dead by police officers in Niagara Falls, Ont., early Wednesday.

TORONTO — Ontario's deal with the federal government to operate a $10-a-day child-care system in the province is set to expire in five months, but there has been little apparent progress in extension negotiations, which has some advocates, operators

Peel Region police say a woman is dead after being shot in Brampton, Ont. Police say the shooting happened today in the Airport Road and Queen Street East area. They say the victim was treated by paramedics but succumbed to her injuries.

LONDON — A group of pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted the start of a defence conference in London, Ont., Tuesday morning, blocking off entrances to the building and locking some doors with bicycle locks.

TORONTO — Education Minister Paul Calandra tabled a bill Monday with the sole purpose of firing one school board trustee.