An 89-year-old Baptist minister, who has worked at various churches in Ontario and Nova Scotia, has been charged in connection with alleged sexual assaults of a young girl over several years in the late 1980s.

Ontario's minimum wage officially rose to $8 an hour Thursday, but the government warns not to expect another hike anytime soon.

Karlheinz Schreiber is one step closer to being sent back to Germany after the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed the German-Canadian's appeal to avoid extradition.

The Toronto Transit Commission has approved a proposal to replace its streetcars with a new fleet of light-rail vehicles.

Labatt is making a move into the discount beer market as it plans to buy Hamilton's Lakeport Brewing Income Fund in a friendly deal worth $201.4 million.

Firefighters continued to douse the smouldering remains of a food warehouse Thursday morning after a fire raged at the building in Toronto's Leaside neighbourhood the night before.

Toronto police have posted a video on YouTube featuring a sculpture by a local artist of a girl who disappeared with two friends more than five months ago in a plea for them to return home.

Women who were sexually abused by an Ontario priest shared their stories Wednesday with more than 100 priests at a workshop about abuse in the church.

Mats Sundin scored early in the third period as the Toronto Maple Leafs edged the New York Rangers 2-1 on Wednesday.

Chris Bosh had game highs of 34 points and eight rebounds as the Toronto Raptors beat the Wizards 119-109 on Wednesday.

A Toronto-based company that bills itself as the first online social network developed for Canadians is testing a YouTube-like service that offers live video feeds.

A former key Ontario bureaucrat has broken ranks and blamed the provincial Liberals' plan to shut down coal-fired power plants for creating an energy supply "crisis."

A new award has been established and will be handed out this April in memory of documentary filmmaker Lindalee Tracey.

The Toronto FC announced the signing of veteran Welsh midfielder Carl Robinson and traded midfielder Rod Dyachenko for a first-round pick on Thursday.

The Toronto Transit Commission's old aluminum tokens are officially supposed to be out of circulation by Thursday, but transit officials say commuters may inadvertently get a few days of leniency.

Hospital-borne C. difficile bacteria caused 10 of 26 deaths at a Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., hospital between April and November 2006, the region's deputy chief coroner said Wednesday.

Toronto police are poised to install surveillance cameras in three high-risk neighbourhoods, but must first hold public meetings.

Public Works Canada will not make a final decision about whether to sell nine federal buildings worth $1.5 billion to the private sector until it receives the results of a study it commissioned in September, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

The novel Snow Falling on Cedars has been removed from school library shelves and English class reading lists by an Ontario Catholic school board after a complaint about the book's sexually explicit content.

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit has ended a brief probe into an incident involving Hamilton police on Tuesday that resulted in the deaths of two men.