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Staffing shortages hitting beleaguered home-care sector, organization says
An organization representing Ontario home-care providers says the same factors leading to staffing shortages throughout the workforce have left the already beleaguered sector in...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford holds meeting on rural, remote and northern housing issues
Ontario Premier Doug Ford met Sunday with leaders of rural, remote and northern communities to discuss their housing challenges as issues of rapid price...
Ontario to start reopening businesses, boost gathering sizes
TORONTO — Ontario will soon begin easing COVID-19 restrictions, starting by reopening businesses such as restaurants, gyms and cinemas with capacity limits and boosting...
Niagara proceeding with stronger school measures after disagreement with Moore
The head of a public health unit in southern Ontario will go ahead with stronger COVID-19 measures in local schools, despite censure from the...
Ontario to start reopening businesses, boost gathering sizes
TORONTO — Ontario will begin easing COVID-19 restrictions at the end of the month, starting with increasing social gathering limits and allowing certain businesses...
Ford kicks off housing summit with funding to help municipalities cut red tape
TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford launched a virtual housing summit with a promise of funds to help the province's largest municipalities speed up...
Ontario sees ‘glimmers of hope’ in Omicron fight, health minister says
TORONTO — Ontario's health minister says the province is starting to see "glimmers of hope" in its fight against the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
Christine...
More Ontario schools reopen for in-person learning after snowstorm
More schools across Ontario are set to reopen for in-person classes today.
Boards in some parts of the province including Windsor and Thunder Bay saw...
Ontario reports a record 4,183 COVID-19 patients in hospital
TORONTO — Ontario is reporting a record 4,183 people in hospital with COVID-19, including 580 people in intensive care.
That's up from 3,887 in hospitals...
Snow hampers return to in-person classes in several Ontario school boards
TORONTO — Many Ontario school boards were scrambling to adjust their plans for reopening schools Monday as a winter storm blanketed much of the...
