Ontario News

TORONTO — Ontario students will return to school classrooms on Jan. 17, Premier Doug Ford's office told The Canadian Press.

A few members of the Canadian Armed Forces are on the ground in Bearskin Lake First Nation in northern Ontario to assist the community amid a COVID-19 outbreak that has infected half of its population.

TORONTO — A new date has been set for a coroner's inquest into a scaffolding collapse that killed four men in Toronto more than a decade ago.

TORONTO — The City of Toronto is reporting average unplanned absence rates of more than 10 per cent across its divisions, including its emergency services, amid the surging Omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

TORONTO — The man who deliberately killed 11 people by driving a van down a Toronto sidewalk will have his sentencing adjourned for several months.

Ontario reported 412 COVID-19 patients in intensive care units on Sunday, a jump from 385 a day earlier, as health-care workers in the province continue to feel the strain of an Omicron-fueled wave.

Ontario says it is adding 10 additional COVID-19 vaccine clinics to accelerate booster doses for education and child-care workers as the province reported nearly 2,600 people hospitalized with the virus on Saturday.

TORONTO — Families are set to commemorate the loss today of loved ones who died after Iranian forces downed a passenger jet two years ago. A Ukrainian International Airlines flight was shot down by Iranian forces two years ago on Jan. 8, 2020.

TORONTO — Ontario has renewed scholarships honouring the victims of the passenger jet that was downed in Iran two years ago.

TORONTO — Three pediatricians' groups are urging the Ontario government to resume in-person learning no later than Jan. 17.