Ontario News

TORONTO — Ontario college students can't afford a strike right now, the province's post-secondary minister said Tuesday, days ahead of a planned full withdrawal of services by faculty.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he will wear his mask "for the first few days" in the legislature after mandates lift on Monday.

The Ontario government is planning to soon make permanent an hourly wage increase for personal support workers that was brought in temporarily and extended multiple times during the pandemic.

Ontario plans to add hundreds of positions to medical schools over the next five years. The province says it will add 160 seats to undergraduate programs and 295 postgraduate positions.

WEST PERTH, ONT. — Police say a 10-year-old girl who was reported missing west of Stratford, Ont., has been found dead.

TORONTO — Clients at a food bank in north Toronto have recently been going home with baskets of potatoes from Prince Edward Island as truckloads of the vegetable caught up in an export ban have been making their way across the country.

TORONTO — Vaccination against COVID-19 will still be required for employees at many Ontario long-term care homes even though the province has lifted its official mandate for the sector, but some are concerned about the possibility of legal challenges

The Law Society of Ontario says bar exams that were cancelled this month have been rescheduled for April.

QUINTE WEST, Ont. — Police say five students from India have been identified as the victims of a fatal collision between a van and a tractor trailer on Highway 401 in Quinte West, Ont.

TORONTO — Ontario's next budget will set a roadmap for recovering from COVID-19, perhaps doubling as the Progressive Conservatives' election platform, and many stakeholders are asking the government to shore up the health system by looking beyond hos