Around Ontario

TORONTO — Amazon Prime Video is creating a comedy series shot and set in northern Ontario's cottage country.

TORONTO — Pop singer Ralph says keeping her hands in many "honey pots" of the entertainment world is one secret to surviving in Canada’s music industry.

TORONTO — Star guard Kyle Lowry penned his farewell message to Toronto on Wednesday, saying his bond with the city is unbreakable.

TORONTO — After smashing his 42nd career leadoff homer, a single and double in the first three innings, hot-hitting Blue Jays veteran George Springer was not thinking cycle in his fourth at-bat.

TORONTO — The release of "Clifford the Big Red Dog" has been postponed in Canada and distributors say the family adventure will also no longer screen at the Toronto International Film Festival.

TORONTO — The CFL will acknowledge the children and families victimized by Canada's residential schools system during the opening week of the '21 season.

TORONTO — Ontario is opening temporary road test centres to help address a large testing backlog that built up due to pandemic lockdowns.

TORONTO — All classrooms in Ontario schools without mechanical ventilation systems will have a standalone HEPA unit upon students' return this fall, the education minister announced a day after his back-to-school plan was unveiled.

TORONTO — Ontario's highest court has dismissed an appeal from the government after a provincial directive making some post-secondary student fees optional was ruled to be unlawful.

TORONTO — Cannes-winning horror sensation "Titane" and a documentary on the late Canadian jazz legend Oscar Peterson are among the titles added to the Toronto International Film Festival.