TORONTO — Ontario says there are no plans to close residential schools for special needs students, but the Liberal government won’t say if that is a permanent decision. Parents and staff protested after the government halted admissions for this fall while it consulted on the future of the schools inRead More

Ottawa police are investigating the death of 10-year old Toronto boy who drowned in the Ottawa River. The incident occurred Saturday afternoon at the Constance Bay beach just northwest of Ottawa. Police say the boy was wading in the river with his older brother when he slipped into deep, fastRead More

A 29-year-old man is facing more than a dozen in connection with an ongoing drug investigation in the city’s east end. Police allege between May and August of this year, a man was seen trafficking drugs in the area of Danforth and Greenwood avenues. On Friday, investigators say the manRead More

A grieving northern Ontario woman says she just wants the rest of her slain son’s remains returned to her. Wesley Hallam, 29, was killed in 2011 at a drug-fuelled house party in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., where he was stabbed to death, decapitated and dismembered. His mother has been waitingRead More

Toronto Fire Services is investigating the cause of a house fire that broke out at a residence in the city’s Rockcliffe-Smythe neighbourhood overnight. It happened in the area of Jane Street and Alliance Avenue, near Eglinton Avenue, at around 4:30 a.m. Police say no injuries were reported and residents haveRead More

OTTAWA — Canadians who fear that scrapping the first-past-the-post electoral system would lead to instability and extremism should look for comfort on the other side of the world, argued James Shaw, the co-leader of New Zealand’s Green party. “In our experience, we had exactly the same concerns, but none ofRead More

Ontario:- The NDP have filed a complaint with Elections Ontario after members of the Liberal campaign team in Scarborough-Rouge River announced the date of an upcoming byelection in the riding before it had officially been called. Officials with the Liberal campaign in Scarborough-Rouge River put out a press release onRead More

 Brampton :- A Brampton woman had an angry outburst in court Thursday after a judge sentenced her to 12-years in prison for killing her pregnant sister-in-law Poonam Litt. Earlier this year, a jury found Mandeep Punia guilty of manslaughter in the death of 27-year-old Poonam Litt. The two had aRead More

Toronto:- A University of Toronto student was arrested without charges in Bangladesh for his alleged involvement in last month’s restaurant attack, leaving his friends feeling frustrated and helpless. Tahmid Hasib Khan, 22, a permanent resident of Canada, hasn’t been heard from since the July 1 attack in the Bangladeshi capitalRead More

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has called a provincial byelection Sept. 1. for the Toronto riding of Scarborough-Rouge River, but she did not schedule a vote for the vacant Ottawa-Vanier riding. Wynne announced the Scarborough-Rouge River byelection Wednesday to replace former Liberal MPP Bas Balkissoon, who quit the legislatureRead More