Scores of serious criminal cases where judges denied the use of peremptory challenges could require new trials.

An Ontario man said his life was ruined after being wrongfully arrested on 16 charges related to human trafficking in 2014.

A spokesman for the provincial attorney general says the ministry hopes that an independent investigation already underway into how police handle missing persons cases will address the McArthur probe.

The new ridings would bring Ontario's provincial total up to 124, and are in addition to an already planned 15 new ridings across the rest of the province.

"I’ll never make up for what I lost," said an Ontario man who spent years at provincial mental health facility that ran therapeutic programs for years that amounted to torture.