Ontario News

Ontario's acting auditor general says the province's removal of three-point turns, parallel parking and other requirements from G class driving tests was done without a full review and may have impacted road safety.

TORONTO — A former correctional officer testifying at a coroner's inquest into the death of a mentally ill man at an Ontario jail on Wednesday recalled getting an "incredibly bad sinking feeling" as soon as he saw the man in his segregation cell.

TORONTO — Ontario has named a former General Motors executive as its new representative in Washington, D.C.

TORONTO — Ontario's Progressive Conservative government spent about $25 million — or three quarters of its total advertising spending — last year on ads the auditor general believes are partisan.

TORONTO — Ontario's government is not respecting or using public consultation on environmental impacts in its decision making, particularly in its now-reversed plan to open up the protected Greenbelt for housing development, the acting auditor genera

TORONTO — The Ontario auditor general's office published its annual report Wednesday.

TORONTO — The decision to move the Ontario Science Centre to Ontario Place was based on incomplete information and took into consideration the parking needs of a privately owned waterpark and spa, the province's auditor general said Wednesday.

TORONTO — Durham Regional Police have released body camera footage showing the capture of a kangaroo that escaped from its handlers east of Toronto last week. The four-and-a-half minute video, which has a timecode of 7:10 a.m.

TORONTO — An inmate at an Ontario jail told provincial police he saw correctional officers beating Soleiman Faqiri "as hard as they could" after getting him inside his cell, a coroner's inquest into the mentally ill man's death heard Tuesday.

TORONTO — New Ontario Liberal Party Leader Bonnie Crombie says she will not run for a seat at Queen's Park in the near future.