Ontario News

HAZEL HILL, N.S. — A Nova Scotia cable station that relayed breaking news about the sinking of the Titanic and the end of the First World War will soon be demolished.

TORONTO — Ontario's police watchdog says a Toronto officer has been charged with assault after a man sustained serious injuries during an arrest nearly two years ago.

EDMONTON — A bride and groom spent their first night of wedded bliss in jail when Edmonton police arrested them after a post-wedding brawl in a downtown bar.

The discovery of several dismembered animals in a southern Ontario city this summer has prompted an investigation by local police, who are urging area residents to keep an eye on their pets.

TORONTO — The managing director of Twitter Canada has unexpectedly stepped down a year and a half after taking on the job.

TORONTO — The vast majority of Ontario's Grade 10 students passed the province's standardized literacy test this year. The Education Quality and Accountability Office says 81 per cent of eligible students who wrote the test were successful.

TORONTO — Get ready to do the "Time Warp" at the Stratford Festival in southwestern Ontario.

TORONTO — Robo-adviser Wealthsimple has launched a new investment portfolio for observant Muslims, a move the company says builds off its success targeting smaller, underserviced groups of investors.

WASHINGTON — It was Canada's ultimate prize in the original free-trade deal with the U.S.: a third-party arbitration system to judge whether punitive duties were being applied unfairly.

Toronto police say they've arrested a man who allegedly posed as an Uber driver and sexually assaulted a woman. They say Durham regional police received a call for a sexual assault that occurred on Sunday.