Ontario News

TORONTO — Ontario landlords can raise rents a maximum of 2.5 per cent on most units without seeking special approval next year.

TORONTO — The Ontario Provincial Police are warning the public of sextortion scams circulating online in the eastern region and throughout the province.

THUNDER BAY, Ont. — The Thunder Bay Police Services Board says police chief Sylvie Hauth has been suspended immediately after "serious allegations" were brought forward by the Ontario Civilian Police Commission.

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.