Canada: Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne introduces Fair Housing Plan
Apr 21, 2017, at 06:59 am
Toronto, Apr 20 (IBNS): Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne on Thursday introduced Fair Housing Plan (FHP) to make housing more affordable for home buyers and help renters market, a recent news release said.
Ontario roads safest in country, why drivers pay the highest premiums? asks new report
Apr 21, 2017, at 05:20 am
Toronto, Apr 20 (IBNS): A recent report by David Marshall, CEO of Workplace Safety and Insurance Board released on April 11, said Ontario drivers paid the highest premiums in the country even though the roads were considered safest in North America, media reports said.
Canada: Snowy conditions and high winds cause power outages in Ontario
Apr 08, 2017, at 01:23 am
Toronto, Apr 7 (IBNS): A series of power outages across southern and eastern Ontario, due to heavy snow and high winds, were caused this morning, media reports said.
Canada: Heavy winter storm in Ontario results in cancellation of several flights
Mar 15, 2017, at 05:07 am
Toronto. Mar 14 (IBNS): The heavy winter storm in parts of southern Ontario and northeastern U.S. resulted in cancellation of over 500 flights in and out of Pearson airport, media reports said.
Canada: Ontario hydro rates to be reduced by 25 percent, says Premier Kathleen Wynne
Mar 02, 2017, at 06:31 pm
Toronto, Mar 2 (IBNS): Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government believes the reduction of financing costs of electricity generation contracts over longer periods would show immediate impact on reducing the hydro rates by 25 percent, thereby regaining the popularity of the Liberals, media reports said.
Canada: Ontario to provide life-saving treatment to sick kids affected by US travel ban
Feb 18, 2017, at 04:46 am
Toronto, Feb 17 (IBNS): Ontario has been arranging to provide critical health care to children who had been denied life-saving surgeries in America due to the U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban this month, media reports said.
Ontario to provide life-saving treatment to sick kids affected by US travel ban
Feb 17, 2017, at 07:45 am
Toronto, Feb. 16 (IBNS): Ontario had been arranging to provide critical health care to children who had been denied life-saving surgeries in America due to the U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban this month, media reports said.
Ontario to provide life-saving treatment to sick kids affected by US travel ban
Feb 06, 2017, at 10:08 pm
Toronto, Feb 6 (IBNS): Ontario has been arranging to provide critical health care to children who were denied life-saving surgeries in America due to the U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban last week.
Bald eagle escapes from Ontario zoo
Jan 26, 2017, at 04:05 am
Toronto, Jan 25 (IBNS): A bald eagle escaped from an Ontario zoo in Canada after someone broke in and cut a large hole in a fence, media reports said.
New changes announced in Ontario Premier’s cabinet
Jan 13, 2017, at 03:35 pm
Toronto, Jan 13 (IBNS): With the aim of improving the quality of life of Ontario seniors, support the growth of small businesses and advance gender equality, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced Thursday changes to her cabinet at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Queen's Park, Toronto.
Canada: Multiple homes destroyed by fire in Bradword West Gwillimbury
Jan 07, 2017, at 04:33 am
Toronto, Jan 6 (IBNS): Five homes, which were being constructed in a Bradword West Gwillimbury neighbourhood, were destroyed in a fire Toronto on Friday morning, media reports said.
Canada: North York mansion gutted by fire
Jan 05, 2017, at 04:08 pm
Toronto, Jan 5 (IBNS): The multimillion-dollar house, which was being constructed on Forest Heights Boulevard, North York, Ontario was ruined by fire which broke out early morning on New Year's Day, media reports said.
Canada: Ontario woman killed in Istanbul nightclub attack
Jan 03, 2017, at 10:55 pm
Toronto, Jan 3 (IBNS): An Ontario woman has been killed in the attack which occurred at a nightclub in Turkey's capital Istanbul recently, media reports said.
Canada: Man fined $1,000 for cruelty to squirrel
Jan 02, 2017, at 07:42 pm
Toronto, Jan 2 (IBNS): A Belleville Court fined a man from Ontario for cruelty to animal under the Ontario SPCA Act recently, according to media reports.
Canada: Ontario participates in self-driving car pilot project
Nov 30, 2016, at 04:31 am
Toronto, Nov 29 (IBNS): Ontario became the first in Canada to open a pilot project to test the automated vehicles on public roads and self-driving vehicles are already on Ontario streets, reported CP24.
Ontario bill to ban some door-to-door sales
Nov 04, 2016, at 04:07 am
Toronto, Nov 3 (IBNS): A new legislation introduced on Thursday in Ontario aims to control some home inspectors, banning certain door-to-door sales and enhance the payday loan rules.
Ontario senior booked of 14 child-porn charges
Oct 19, 2016, at 02:46 am
Sudbury, Oct 18(IBNS): A 71-year-old northern Ontario man has been booked with 14 charges on account of an international child pornographic investigation.
Canada's population soars with immigrant and refugee arrivals
Oct 10, 2016, at 12:06 am
Toronto, Oct 9 (IBNS): Statistic Canada says record number of immigrants and refugees arriving on Canadian shores have helped push Canada’s official population over 36 million as of July 1.
Fishing Industry of Canada at a major risk of stock collapse
Oct 06, 2016, at 04:24 am
Ottawa, Oct 5(IBNS): Canada's Environment and Sustainable Development Commissioner on Tuesday warned about the risk of suffering a major stock collapse that the $6billion fishing industry is to face soon.
Plans for more green energy cancelled by Ontario
Sep 29, 2016, at 10:44 pm
Toronto, Sept. 29 (IBNS): In view of rising electrical rates, Ontario’s Liberal government decided to cancel plans to sign contracts for up to 1,000 megawatts of power from solar, wind and other renewable energy sources, media reports said.
Ontario prioritizes community water needs to bottled water firms
Sep 26, 2016, at 11:51 pm
Toronto, Sept. 26 (IBNS): Nestle’s purchase of a well near Elora in Ontario, Canada to secure water supply for its own growing water bottling plant, forced Ontario to renew its government scrutiny of the bottling water industry, reported the media.
Ontario couple gets 18 month jail for child confinement
Sep 23, 2016, at 03:39 am
Toronto, Sept 22 (IBNS): An Ontario based couple, who locked their 10-year-old nephew inside a bedroom and forcibly confined him for two years, have been sentenced imprisonment for 18 months.
Ontario's University of Waterloo rushes to correct gender bias in salary
Aug 10, 2016, at 06:07 pm
Ontario, Aug 10 (IBNS): A top notch university in Canada, University of Waterloo, through a recent email to its faculty notified that a task group of the university assigned to analyse faculty salaries has uncovered a “systemic gender anomaly†that was “consistent across the university,†and which is being rectified, according to media reports.