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Ontario has introduced a three-step plan for reopening the province that's set to take effect in mid-June. Restrictions will lift based on vaccination rates and other health indicators, with at least 21 days between each stage.

The family of two children who died after being hit by a car over the weekend set up a fundraising campaign with the SickKids Foundation, police announced on Thursday.

TORONTO — A high school principal says he didn't check the results of a mandatory swim test before a student canoe trip during which a teenager drowned nearly four years ago. Monday Gala, who was principal of C.W.

TORONTO — A police officer may now have to face a disciplinary hearing seven years after a Black teenager accused him of brutality, Ontario's police oversight agency decided in a case that set off a bruising years-long legal battle.

Toronto police are investigating after an SUV hit and critically injured a seven-year-old girl. Police say they were called to the incident — near Lawrence Avenue and Allen Road — on Wednesday evening.

TORONTO — The Ontario government is asking the public to report suspected pollution online in an effort to bolster enforcement, but critics say the move is a token gesture by a regime that has done little to help the environment.

TORONTO — Ontario hospitals were given the green light Wednesday to gradually resume non-urgent surgeries as COVID-19 infections decline across the province.

TORONTO — For 13-year-old Antonia Owsianicki, waiting two hours in line for her COVID-19 vaccine was scarier than the needle itself.

TORONTO — Tensions flared at a homeless encampment in Toronto on Wednesday as city officials, flanked by dozens of police officers, moved in to clear the site. Residents and their supporters shouted at police, who in turn threatened many with arrest.

Ontario's opioid crisis has worsened dramatically during the pandemic, with the homeless population and those who were unemployed accounting for a significant portion of fatal overdoses, a new report has found.