Around Ontario

TORONTO — Ontario is making changes to improve the home and community care system, in the hopes it helps keep people out of hospital who don't need to be there.

TORONTO — It's been a meteoric rise for jockey Kazushi Kimura. The laurels have been steady for the 20-year-old since 2018 when he left his native Japan to ride at Toronto's Woodbine Racetrack.

TORONTO — Ontario's education minister came out swinging Tuesday against the Catholic teachers' union a day after negotiations were scuttled by what he said were new benefits demands.

TORONTO — A man accused of killing a Toronto woman with a hammer has had his murder charge updated to include terrorism activity.

TORONTO — For Canada coach Kenneth Heiner-Moller, one of the takeaways from last summer's early exit at the Women's World Cup in France was the need to play more Tier 1 opposition.

Toronto Arrows fullback Sam Malcolm has been named Major League Rugby's player of the week after a 24-point performance against the defending champion Seattle Seawolves.

Toronto police say they've charged a teenager with murder after a fatal stabbing at a business in the city's north end. They say officers responded to a call for a stabbing at 12:40 p.m. on Monday.

TORONTO — Canadian actor Saul Rubinek's role of a Polish Jew who hunts down Nazis in the new series "Hunters" hits close to home.

GATINEAU, Que. — Police in Gatineau, Que., say a 39-year-old woman already facing a manslaughter charge in the death of a three-month-old baby in an apartment fire last August now faces a similar charge in the death of a man in the same fire.

Protesters have set up a blockade on a popular commuter rail line near Hamilton halting passenger train service.