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TORONTO, CANADA - MAY 30: Brandon Morrow #23 of the Toronto Blue Jays is helped off the field after being hit by a line drive against the Baltimore Orioles during MLB action at The Rogers Centre May 30, 2012 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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  • Student from China presumed drowned in NY river

    haven't released the man's name but say he was an international student from China who attended nearby Niagara College in Ontario.Police say they've used underwater cameras in the search but that the currents have so far made it too dangerous for divers.   Read more »

  • Martin Brodeur a link between 1994 and 2012

    had recently celebrated his third birthday.So long ago that Peter DeBoer had just earned a law degree from the University of Windsor ( Ontario ) and had not yet started to coach. And this: "In '94 I still had hair,'' the Devils ' coach said. "It was that long   Read more »

  • Police hold diamond-swallower until evidence moves

    -- Police in the Canadian province of Ontario say they are holding a man who allegedly swallowed a $20,000 diamond as long as it takes for him to produce the evidence.It has been nearly a week since Richard Mackenzie Matthews, 52, is alleged to have switched   Read more »

  • Mitchell makes most of his minutes

    -- John Mitchell isn't planning on his annual late May trip to fish for walleye with his dad and some pals on a remote lake in Ontario . The Rangers could still be in the playoffs."My dad said he'll have to take a satellite radio to listen to the games," Mitchell   Read more »

  • Jonathan Frid, actor in "Dark Shadows", dies at 87

    soap opera "Dark Shadows", has died. He was 87.Frid died Friday of natural causes in a hospital in his home town of Hamilton, Ontario , said Jim Pierson, a friend and spokesman for Dan Curtis Productions, the creator of "Dark Shadows."Frid starred in the 1960s   Read more »

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  • Jeffrey cold to wage freeze plan

    this type of scheme is illegal and precedent shows the PC wage bill will lead to billions of dollars in penalties paid by Ontario taxpayers.” Jeffrey pointed out a 2007 Supreme Court of Canada decision overturned wage freeze legislation in British Columbia 23 m ago from Brampton Guardian Read more »

  • St. Paul girls soccer team best of year

    St. Paul Wolverines take soccer pretty seriously. That's evident by their run to the all-Ontario girls' AA championships last June. For that accomplishment, the Wolverines senior girls' soccer team is being recognized as the Mississauga Sports Council's 2011 47 m ago from The Mississauga News Read more »

  • McNeil: An Exhilarating Walleye hunt

    Note: This is Dan McNeil’s column for the Chicago Tribune, written from Eagle Lake, Ontario. By Dan McNeil- EAGLE LAKE, ONTARIO — I didn’t gain much fishing knowledge from my father, Roy McNeil, who used to wake up his chubby son before sunrise to drown minnows 55 m ago from CBS2 Chicago Read more »

  • GM confirms plans to close Oshawa plant

    reached for comment. GM also builds the Buick Regal, Cadillac XTS and Chevy Camaro at what's called its flex assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario. That plant is supposed to get a percentage of the all-new Chevy Impala, but Buckley said GM hasn't told them yet 10:20 AM from Detroit News Online Read more »

  • NULL MNR crews battling along perimeter of Timmins 9

    latest update from the Gogama area forest fire indicates the blaze is 39,518 hectares, according to information provided by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Crews battling what has been technically referred to as Timmins 9 are continuing to expand 10:17 AM from Timmins Daily Press Read more »

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About Ontario

Ontario is a province in Canada located in the east-central part of the country, the largest by population and second to Quebec in total area. Ontario is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba to the west, Quebec to the east , and the American states of Michigan, New York, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania to the south. Most of Ontario's borders with the United States are natural, starting at the Lake of the Woods and continuing through the four Great Lakes: Superior, Huron (which includes Georgian Bay), Erie, and Ontario (for which the province is named), then along the Saint Lawrence River near Cornwall.

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