Browsing: Ontario Towns

With gold prices high and mines expanding, Timmins expects thousands more miners over the next decade. Housing leads the issues before Ontario’s Oct. 26 municipal vote.

Ontario’s police watchdog found no grounds to charge a Greater Sudbury officer after a man’s rib was fractured during a June arrest at his home.

Harriet Tubman settled in St. Catharines in 1851 and worked from there for years. Historians still differ on how long she stayed and how many people she led.

A coroner’s jury found five men died accidentally of drug toxicity at Collins Bay Institution and urged Correctional Service Canada to overhaul health care and harm reduction.

Court filings show the Belleville synagogue shooter sued the military for $1 million over his COVID-19 vaccine discharge before the deadly attack.

A Belleville, Ont., police officer and a 29-year-old man were shot and hospitalized Sunday after gunfire erupted outside a synagogue during Yom Kippur services, Ontario’s SIU says.

Speakers at Kingston’s Sept. 7 Labour Day picnic warned about tariff job losses and school cuts. Since then, Novelis cut about 80 jobs and the United Way set a $4.25-million goal.

Hamilton and Niagara each confirmed a first human West Nile case this week. A daytime-biting mosquito found in Niagara in August complicates the advice.

Ontario bills 2026 property taxes on Jan. 1, 2016 values. A study of 3,400 Vaughan sales found two homes with near identical prices taxed $528 apart.

Ottawa’s $4.7B Via Rail order revives a Thunder Bay plant that cut 200 jobs in May, and replaces a fleet averaging 77 years old that runs until 2035.