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TORONTO — Ontario's health minister said it's a "personal choice" to wear a mask Tuesday, one day after the province's top doctor urged everyone to do so in all indoor spaces.

TORONTO — Policy changes to address knife crimes are needed to prevent violence in schools like the stabbing of a Grade 12 Toronto student on Monday, an expert says.

TORONTO — Drugsare smuggled into an eastern Ontario inside the body cavities of inmates and in the mail they receive, a deputy superintendent at the facility jail told a coroner's inquest on Tuesday.

TORONTO — A plea by health officials to resume masking in Ontario and Quebec is a tall order that is unlikely to take hold without a significant culture shift, say observers who point to pandemic fatigue, mixed messages and divisive politics as likel

Environment Canada is issuing its first winter weather travel advisory of the season for much of southern Ontario, including the Greater Toronto Area.

LONDON, Ont. — Western University and the union representing about 1,500 faculty members have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, averting a strike.

TORONTO — A 17-year-old student is in life-threatening condition after being stabbed inside his high school in Toronto's east end. Toronto police Insp.

OSHAWA, Ont. — An eight-year-old girl is dead following what police say is an alleged murder-suicide in an Oshawa, Ont., home. The Durham Regional Police Service says officers responded to a home around 8 a.m. on Saturday following a 911 call.

TORONTO — Ontario is projecting improving deficits over the next couple of years despite an expected economic slowdown, but opposition critics say Monday's fall economic statement fails to "meet the moment" as it lacks new injections of health spendi

TORONTO — A coroner's inquest into the drug-related deaths of five inmates at an Ontario jail heard Monday that one of them used to "self medicate" with drugs to cope with mental illness and tragedy in his life.