Ontario News

HAMILTON — Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after a 31-year-old man fell from a second-floor apartment in Hamilton. The Special Investigations Unit says two officers went to the apartment on Sunday around 10:30 a.m. to arrest a man.

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TORONTO — When "Will & Grace" originally aired, the cast didn't want to take credit for any shift in social attitudes toward the LGBTQ community, says Canadian star Eric McCormack.

TORONTO — A Toronto police sergeant who stomped on and repeatedly Tasered a man during arrest has made his first appearance at a disciplinary hearing. Sgt.

TORONTO — The Writers' Trust of Canada is doubling its fiction award to $70,000. The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize will now offer $50,000 to the winner and $5,000 to each of the four nominees.

TORONTO — The Toronto Real Estate Board is urging the city to exercise caution regarding a possible vacant home tax.

VANCOUVER — The amount of public money parties would receive under British Columbia's new campaign finance rules before the next provincial election is virtually identical to the amount political donors received in tax benefits between the last two e

OTTAWA — Canada is pushing for the inclusion of enforceable, progressive labour standards in a rewritten North American Free Trade Agreement, aimed at compelling Mexico to pay workers higher wages and do away with so-called "yellow" unions that repre

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government has no intention of stifling growth for small businesses and start-ups with its upcoming changes to the tax code.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pointed to his own experience in two Quebec referendums to explain why Canada won't weigh in on the push for independence by Iraq's Kurdish population.