Ontario News

ST. JOHN'S, N.L.

WELLINGTON NORTH TOWNSHIP, Ont. — Provincial police say a thief in Wellington County has flown the coop with about $800 worth of live poultry.

OTTAWA — The expected, gradual rise of interest rates over the next few years is poised to push the financial vulnerability of indebted Canadian households well above levels seen over the last three decades, warns a new analysis.

TORONTO — Ontario pharmacies will soon have to report medication errors to an independent third party, a move that is being applauded by the mother of a boy who died after a medication mistake.

TORONTO — A new study suggests a barrier erected on a Toronto overpass that was once the second-most frequented bridge for suicides in North America is serving its purpose.

TORONTO — Amazon Canada plans to hire 200 more workers at its headquarters in Toronto including for positions in software development, engineering, programming, marketing and sales and human resources.

OTTAWA — Amid the growing death toll of Canada's ongoing opioid epidemic, there's evidence of a correlating increase in the number of healthy human organs available for transplant.

An eminent Canadian historian whose writings on the Holocaust in Poland have attracted death threats said Tuesday that fierce criticism of his research is an unjustified attack on academic freedom. In an interview, University of Ottawa Prof.

YORKTON, Sask. — A quick-thinking, off-duty RCMP officer is being credited with helping avert a tragedy in Saskatchewan by managing to stop a moving train.

Montreal police officers have put away their camouflage pants until at least Friday night as their union and the city engage in intensive negotiations to try to reach a deal on pensions.