Around Ontario

TORONTO — Ontario legislators have quietly increased their rental housing allowances by around 20 per cent arguing that they've been paying out of their own pockets to subsidize housing in Toronto's hot real estate market.

TORONTO — After medicals and two days of fitness training indoors in the frigid north, Toronto FC heads to the warmth and real grass of California on Friday to start training camp in earnest.

TORONTO — Ontario's Progressive Conservative government is eliminating free tuition for students from low-income families while also cutting tuition fees.

Toronto's mayor says city staff have found a way to speed up work by two years on a planned subway relief line. John Tory says the proposed plan would mean the downtown relief line could be completed in 2029 instead of 2031 as initially projected.

THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Provincial police . say a man whose body was found on the shoulder of a highway near Thunder Bay, Ont. is now believed to be a homicide victim.

TORONTO — Police say six people, including a teen, are facing hundreds of charges in an ongoing taxi-fraud and identity-theft scam allegedly impacting hundreds of people in the Greater Toronto Area.

TORONTO — A nearly 75-year-old Canadian youth theatre festival where Rachel McAdams, Margot Kidder and David Cronenberg got their start has secured a much-needed new sponsor.

OTTAWA — Matt Duchene couldn't have scripted the night any better.

LONDON, Ont. — A 13-year-old girl was sent to hospital with life-threatening injuries after she was struck by a vehicle in London, Ont.

SUDBURY, Ont. — Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped all 32 shots he faced to lift the Sudbury Wolves to a 5-0 win over the North Bay Battalion on Wednesday in Ontario Hockey League action.