Kitchener South—Hespeler MP Marwan Tabbara is facing charges after being arrested in Guelph earlier this year.

Ontario reported 344 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Friday, bringing the provincial total to 29,747.

A court ruling allowing people accused ofsexual assault or other violent crimes to argue they were so intoxicated they didn't know what they were doing has angered women's-rights activists but civil libertarians call the criticism unwarranted.

"We are taking steps that businesses that have been allowed to be open have not [taken] and we don't feel that we are being taken seriously," Norm Wright said.

"It really is the missing piece of Canadian history."

A call from local activists to defund the Hamilton Police Service is the latest addition to a growing conversation about anti-Black racism in policing.

Premier Doug Ford has backtracked on his comments that Canada doesn't have the same "systemic, deep roots" of racism as the United States, acknowledging that Ontario has a history of racism stretching back decades.

The New Orleans Saints QB is being chastised after comments on how the NFL should respond if players once again took a knee in the wake of George Floyd's death.