Nov 14, 2025 | 8:35 AM
A Hamilton crossing guard has died, after being struck by a dump truck yesterday afternoon.
According to police it happened at about 2:30 p.m. at Mohawk Road and Upper Wentworth Street.
The 52-year-old man, died at the scene.
Police are still investigating how it happened.
Patients appear to be growing increasingly impatient… unhappy with their doctors.
Ontario's patient ombudsman office says a growing number of people are filing complaints, over 4800 a 10% increase over the last year.
With a record number of investigations, including a case where a person was discharged, and died of sepsis 2 days later, also a person who was discharged without being told they had cancer.
Among the issues highlighted, many patients don't feel heard, discharge protocols in emergency rooms should be improved, and a lack of proper care for women.
Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra has announced that the province is establishing offices within school boards for parents to escalate issues beyond their school — starting with five boards currently under supervision.
Among those, Dufferin-Peel Catholic, and the Toronto Catholic and public Board
The province is also looking closely at eliminating the position of trustee entirely.
The government says the offices in those boards will open in January and all others by September 1st.
While speed camera’s have recently been banned, cities who spend the money on them, are looking to be reimbursed.
Toronto city council has unanimously voted in favour of a motion from Mayor Olivia Chow calling on the province to reimburse the costs of programs that were funded by the speeders.
Saying money from the cameras paid for more than 900 crossing guards, 31.2-million dollars and 18 traffic safety police officers , 4-million dollars.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government says it's earmarking 210-million dollars for municipalities to implement traffic-calming measures as its ban on speed cameras is set to take effect today.
The driver of a commercial vehicle is dead after a collision on Highway 401 in Oxford County.
Ontario Provincial Police say two commercial vehicles came together early Thursday morning in the eastbound lanes of the highway near the Township of Blandford-Blenheim.
Investigators say the one vehicle struck the rear of the other.
A 26-year-old man from Brampton was pronounced deceased at the scene, while the other driver did not require medical attention.
Peel police have made an arrest, after seizing a million dollars in drugs.
Police say searches were executed across multiple addresses in the GTA on Halloween.
A 29-year-old Toronto man is facing multiple charges after police say he was found with 13 kilos of crystal meth.
Guelph police say a man has been arrested after he was found hiding inside a school closet.
Police say they were called to the east-end school around 4:15 p-m on Tuesday after a teacher discovered the man inside a closet while children were still there for an after-school program.
Police say the 48-year-old man fled but was later arrested.
Police believed he was waiting for the school to close to commit theft.
Hydro reported 3rd-quarter profit rose to 421-million dollars for the quarter ending September 30th.
Ontario's electricity company also revealed that David Lebeter is back in his role as president and chief executive as of yesterday.
Lebeter had been on a compassionate care leave since late August to care for a family member.
York Regional Police say they have charged a third suspect in an online gambling extortion investigation.
It's believed the accused worked with an organized crime group in the GTA for unlawful gaming and betting between January 2024 and October 2025.
Police say the group ran websites where victims placed bets on credit, and when bets were lost, players were required to settle their debts in cash, sometimes in exaggerated amounts.
The suspect used threats and violence to intimidate victims into paying.
The Art Gallery of Ontario says it has received a significant gift of more than 450 pieces of art, including works by pop titans Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and David Hockney.
The trove of art comes from the family of late Toronto art patrons Carol and Morton Rapp.
It consists largely of prints, drawings and photographs from the late 1960s and 1970s, as well as throughout the early decades of the 21st century.