Beyond Local

Opposition parties will give their official responses to Wednesday's speech from the throne but they've already signalled that Trudeau can't count on support from any of them to survive the eventual confidence vote and avoid plunging the country into an election in the midst of a second wave of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic

The premier has already announced the province will launch a bolstered flu shot campaign in the coming weeks

“COVID doesn't make you go to the bathroom more, but it does make you clean more"

Trudeau will also deliver a live address to the nation this evening

Ontario's school reopening plan requires parents to screen their children for COVID-19 symptoms

Up to 60 pharmacies will start offering testing by appointment only

The C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health found that among families where children saw grandparents often or occasionally, 43 per cent had major or minor disagreements about parenting

Plans for child care, health care, affordable housing, economic impacts of pandemic to be laid out

Recruitment to begin in October, increasing number of inspectors from 409 to 507 across the province

The results from a survey credit the increased savings to workers not having to commute, to buy lunches, or to pay for childcare