Ontario

Jaspreet Bal was eating lunch with friends in rural Ontario when she says a "kind, well-intentioned" white man approached them to chat. He asked about her background, and she replied she was Sikh.

Doug Ford has been named the new leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservatives, winning a contest fraught with complications. Here are five things to know about the new Tory leader.

A band of masked vandals describing themselves as "ungovernables" roamed through a stretch of an Ontario city hurling rocks at small businesses and causing up to $100,000 in damage, local police said on Sunday, March 4, 2018.

Ontario’s environment minister says statements made by contenders in the provincial Progressive Conservative leadership race have made him concerned for his children’s future. Speaking to a crowd in Toronto on Monday, Chris Ballard lashed out at the candidates, who have all expressed skepticism of provincial green policies, and compared unusual weather around the world to the show Stranger Things.

When the Ontario PC leadership debate veered into the issue of sexual misconduct, candidate Doug Ford hesitated before calling it "unacceptable.” Then he added: “It’s not just women, it's men too. It’s on both sides.”

Some of India's biggest companies say they will invest more than $250 million in Canada in the coming years in everything from pulp mills to pharmaceuticals and the IT sector.

As the Ontario legislature resumes sitting today, February 20, 2018, for the final session before a spring election, former Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown says he won't be there to take his seat.

A Progressive Conservative government in Ontario would not implement a planned minimum wage increase next year, no matter who ends up winning the race to lead the party through the spring election.

Caroline Mulroney's campaign has raised some big money, less than two weeks into her bid to win the Ontario Progressive Conservative party leadership.

The former leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservative Party, who stepped down from his position late last month amid allegations of sexual misconduct, said on Sunday, February 11, 2018, he can disprove the accusations.

As the race to produce enough cannabis for the soon-to-be-legal market gets increasingly crowded, licensed producers are setting their sights on the next frontier in the race for maximum pot profitability: developing retail stores.

Ontario Progressive Conservative party leadership candidate Doug Ford said Saturday morning he could envision a Ford-led Ontario and Jason Kenney-led Alberta working together to rid the land of carbon tax.

Ontario is about to introduce a bill allowing it to retaliate against any state that adopts Buy American provisions, then plans to start a national conversation with other provinces about measures to punish new cases of procurement protectionism.

A veteran journalist with Ontario's public broadcaster fired back and denied a sexual harassment allegation made by a Toronto woman, calling the claim "complete fiction."

Ontario’s public broadcaster says the host of its flagship current affairs program will remain on the air while being investigated for alleged sexual harassment.