Toronto News

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford has called a pair of byelections in Milton and Lambton-Kent-Middlesex for May 2.

VAUGHAN, Ont. — Premier Doug Ford says he’d like to see Ontario post-secondary institutions attended only by students from Ontario. Ford says about 18 per cent of students in the province's colleges and universities are from foreign countries.

VAUGHAN, Ont. — A new medical school focused on family medicine at York University will open its doors in 2028. York University president Rhonda Lenton says the university has been planning the medical school for the past decade.

TORONTO — The wife of a man accused of running over a Toronto police officer told jurors Tuesday she feared the two people rushing toward their car in an underground garage that night were going to kill them.

TORONTO — Four new police helicopters will help fight the car-theft crisis and assist searches for missing vulnerable people, the province and Toronto-area police forces say.

TORONTO — Ontario is proposing to allow teachers without technological credentials to teach certain introductory tech courses for the next school year, which teachers and principals suggest indicates the province is ill-prepared for the new mandatory

TORONTO — Pro-Palestinian groups have accused Toronto police of making advanced plans to use increased force against protesters at a weekend rally, an allegation police firmly rejected.

TORONTO — Pro-Palestinian groups allege Toronto Police officers are enforcing rules selectively at organized protests after seven people were arrested and at least three charged during a demonstration on Saturday.

MARKHAM, Ont. — An 88-year-old man from Ontario has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest kidney transplant recipient. Walter Tauro, a former real estate agent now living in Markham, Ont.

TORONTO — Ontario is boosting its funding for autism services by $60 million over last year, and while advocates say new money in the recent provincial budget is welcome, thousands of children will still be unable to access therapy.