Ontario News

TORONTO — Advance voting is set to start today in provincial byelections in Kanata-Carleton and Scarborough-Guildwood. Eligible voters in those two ridings can cast a ballot at advance voting locations from Wednesday to Friday.

A food delivery driver who was the victim of a violent carjacking in the Greater Toronto Area has died from his injuries and police are searching for suspects. Peel Region police say 24-year-old Gurvinder Nath, a Brampton, Ont.

TORONTO — A mother of two young girls who was killed while walking in an east Toronto neighbourhood was remembered at a public vigil on Monday as a woman who treasured her family and cared for her community.

Student associations demanded Monday that the Ontario government do more to address gender-based violence on post-secondary campuses, saying a triple stabbing at the University of Waterloo has shown further action is needed.

TORONTO — Four men have been arrested in a kidnapping in downtown Toronto last year. Toronto police say they were notified of a missing person in the city’s downtown core on Dec. 5.

Toronto police say three people are in hospital following an afternoon shooting in the city's east end. Police say they responded to an area near Morningside Avenue and Danzig Street in Scarborough around 3 p.m. for a shooting.

TORONTO — Michael Smith wants to settle down. At 71 years old, he imagines what it would be like to have his own home.

TORONTO — Ontario doctors who received loans from the province during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to cover increased costs and offset revenue losses stemming from lower patient volumes will now have one year to pay those sums back.

COCHRANE, Ont. — Ontario Provincial Police are investigating a collision that left one dead in the Township of Calder.

TORONTO — Advocacy groups and shelter operators called Friday on all levels of government to immediately help Toronto's overstretched shelter system cope with the high numbers of refugee claimants who are unhoused.