Ontario News

TORONTO — The Royal Ontario Museum will redesign its first floor, expand its galleries, and make ground level exhibits free to visitors, officials announced Wednesday as they revealed plans to transform the building into more of a community gathering

TORONTO — The Toronto Argonauts signed Canadian running back Daniel Adeboboye to a contract extension Wednesday. The 24-year-old is expected to see more playing time in 2024 with the retirement of veteran Canadian Andrew Harris and American A.J.

HUNTSVILLE, ONTARIO — Ontario's alcohol regulator is seeking to suspend the licence of a Huntsville restaurant after a customer was allegedly served 18 shots of liquor in under four hours and then died in a car crash.

TORONTO — Ontario's finance minister has told the LCBO to cancel a pilot project that would have seen six stores scan identification cards before allowing customers inside. Peter Bethlenfalvy says he has heard serious concerns about the pilot.

TORONTO — Home sales rose in an unseasonably warm January to mark a second month of rising activity and softening prices, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Wednesday. January sales were up 3.

TORONTO — Barrick Gold Corp. reported that gold production for 2023 fell short of its guidance as it set out lower expected production for the year ahead. The gold miner said Wednesday that production for the year totalled 4.

TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford's government has a plan to get its blue licence plates off the roads, four years after discovering they are barely visible at night – and that plan is to sit back and wait.

TORONTO — Spin Master Corp. says revenue during its latest quarter, which covered the key holiday season, was up 7.9 per cent from a year earlier, but the company's revenue for its fiscal 2023 overall were down 5.

TORONTO — Power Corp. of Canada has hired veteran Scotiabank executive Jake Lawrence as its next chief financial officer.

Toronto Fire crews rescued two people from a two-alarm fire at a low rise residential building east of downtown early Wednesday morning.