Ontario News

TORONTO — Ontario is taking a concrete step toward an idea Premier Doug Ford has championed to build a tunnel under Highway 401. Ford has spoken often of the need to address gridlock and railed against lost productivity as a result of it.

Police say they have charged one person after an all-terrain vehicle rollover left a nine-year-old girl dead in eastern Ontario last fall.

OTTAWA — The Liberals rose from the ashes under Prime Minister Mark Carney but the party's failure to sweep many of its targeted ridings last night denied it a resounding majority mandate.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the day after the federal election that he wants to focus on unity, refusing to shoot back at a rant from a Conservative MP calling the premier a "problem," an opportunist and a Liberal "hype man.

LONDON — Police in London, Ont., say a cyclist has died after colliding with a vehicle in the city’s east end.

OTTAWA — All polls have now closed in Canada's 45th general election. The final polls closed at 10 p.m. EDT in British Columbia and Yukon. Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press

KITCHENER — Landon Sim scored twice, Easton Cowan and Sam Dickinson each had two assists, and the visiting London Knights edged the Kitchener Rangers 3-2 to take a commanding 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven Ontario Hockey League Western Conference Cham

TORONTO — A gynecologist has resigned from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario after Toronto Public Health told patients earlier this year that instruments were not properly cleaned and disinfected at her clinic.

TORONTO — Ontario is set to introduce legislation this week that would speed up judicial appointments, add more judges to the Ontario Court of Justice and create new prosecution teams, the government announced Monday.

Provincial police say a body found in a northern Ontario river earlier this month has been identified as an American man who was reported missing last December.