Focus Ontario: Full Steam Reverse
The Trudeau government unveiling its latest budget this week – how this financial blueprint will impact you. Queen’s Park making a major transit announcement and then quickly reversing part of that plan – we’ll explain why. And, and a year to the day after Canada’s largest gold heist – police announce they have cracked the...
Focus Ontario
Apr 20
Alberta resident, Team Ontario skip Rachel Homan seeking fourth Scotties title
Rachel Homan and her team are looking to continue a sensational season at the Scotties. The skip, who represents Ontario but lives in Beaumont, Alta., is going for her fourth Scotties title. Slav Kornik reports.
Global News Hour at 6 Edmonton
Feb 15
Ontario developer teams with Peterborough-area farmers to tackle hunger
Two organizations have partnered to combat hunger across Canada in a unique way. Four Peterborough-area farmers are working to grow wheat and corn on donated land in the city. Whatever is produced will then go the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Tricia Mason has the details.
Environment
Apr 2
Ontario Tech Ridgebacks men’s basketball team make playoffs for the first time
The Ontario Tech Ridgebacks Men’s Basketball team are in their first playoff season as of Feb 21. Lexy Benedict reports.
Feb 27
Breaking down Ontario’s investment into primary health care providers
After the Ontario Government announced a new investment into primary care teams, the head of the Nurse Practitioners Association of Ontario joins @Candace_Global to discuss the province’s plan.
Global News Morning Toronto
Apr 26
Ontario Tech Ridgebacks men’s basketball team make national Top-10 rankings for the first time
The Ontario Ridgebacks basketball team have climbed into the National top ten rankings, for the first time.
Sports
Feb 15
Ontario has a cabinet minister for attainable housing but no definition for the term
More than a year after Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet ministers began promising to build more “attainable housing,” internal documents show the government hasn’t worked out what the term actually means. Global News’ Queen’s Park Bureau Chief Colin D’Mello reports.
Feb 15
Kingston, Ont. hosts OFSAA curling
Dozens of teams from across Ontario were in Kingston as Frontenac Secondary School hosted OFSAA curling.
Mar 27
RCMP launches ‘massive operation’ in Montreal with raids connected to cocaine, money laundering
Nearly 400 police officers fanned out across Montreal on Tuesday in what the RCMP — which is leading the investigation — are calling a “massive operation” targeting a suspected criminal organization in the city. The operation also involves Montreal police, the Canada Revenue Agency and RCMP emergency response teams from British Columbia, Ontario and New...
Crime
Mar 26
52nd annual Easter Seals Telethon sets $100,000 fundraising goal
The 52nd annual Easter Seals Telethon returns to the Peterborough airwaves on Sunday, March 24 on YourTV and Global Peterborough. Coralie Jacobs, Easter Seals Ontario senior development officer, talks about the telethon and its importance to the organization and her “amazing team” of volunteers. The telethon will air from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Mar 22
Global News at 5:30 Toronto: April 22, 2024
New details about a burning train rolling into London, Ontario. A new mobile dental service beginning for residents of Toronto long-term care homes. And, game two of the playoff series between the Maple Leafs and the Bruins.
Global News at 5:30 Toronto
Apr 22
Can Canada be a leader in mining critical minerals for EV battery supply chains?
Honda’s $15-billion plan to build new electric vehicle plants in Ontario has re-energized Canada’s auto sector. The Japanese automaker says it seeks to tap long-term demand in the region, but mining critical materials is key to that plan. Even though Canada has been hailed as one of the world’s most promising jurisdictions for battery supply...
Global National
Apr 26
Ontario Health Coalition seeking legal action against province
The Ontario Health Coalition is taking legal action against the province. It comes after a new 30-year lease was granted to South Bridge Care Homes, the owners of Orchard Villa Long Term Care Home, where over 70 residents died in the first wave of the pandemic. Lexy Benedict reports.
Canada
Mar 28
Global National: March 4
Former U.S. president Donald Trump has cleared a major legal hurdle in his bid to return to the White House, as the Supreme Court has ruled individual states cannot bar candidates from federal office. How this affects his odds of securing the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election, and if this will end questions...
Global National
Mar 4
Global News at 6 Toronto: January 28, 2024
Professional Canadian hockey player Alex Fermenton turned himself over to police in London, Ont. on Sunday. This comes as the latest in the ongoing investigation into allegations that five members of the 2018 World Junior team sexually assaulted a woman. And, a man in his twenties is in the hospital with serious injuries after being...
Jan 28
Ontario hospital wait times surge
Wait times at Ontario hospitals are at an all-time high. Toronto-based ER physician Dr. Raghu Venugopal joins Antony Robart with more on what his team is facing.
Global News Morning Toronto
Jan 18
Ontario cabinet ministers respond to pending mandate letters decision
Ontario’s finance and energy ministers were asked about the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision regarding the release of the Ford government’s mandate letters. Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy said he believed the principle of cabinet confidentiality remained key to them. The letters, written in bullet point form by political staff at the senior-most levels, laid out...
Canada
Jan 30
Surrey, B.C. homicide suspect arrested in Ontario
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) arrested someone in connection with a fatal shooting in Surrey in February 2022. Kids at a nearby elementary school found a gun a couple of days later — a break in the case, according to IHIT. Emily Lazatin reports.
Crime
Jan 25
Construction started on new 320-bed long-term care facility in Kingston
Ontario’s Long-Term Care Minister Stan Cho discusses Providence Manor’s new 320-bed home under construction in Kingston.
Jan 18
Tour of the London, Ont., Neonatal Paediatric Transport Team’s equipment
Laura Regier, a registered nurse, and Leeann Trowbridge, a respiratory therapist, are members of the Neonatal Paediatric Transport Team with the Children’s Hospital at the London Health Science Centre (LHSC). For over 30 years, the team has been a critical resource for patients, as young as preterm infants to 17 years old, who are too...
Health
Nov 30, 2023