Ontario has extended all of its emergency orders until July 22 in order to align with a new bill proposed at Queen’s Park that would allow certain emergency orders to remain in place until the government decides they are no longer necessary.
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The chair of Toronto’s Board of Health is calling on the province to conduct “proactive testing” for COVID-19 in the city’s northwest corner, an area where he says infection rates have been up to 10 times higher.
Curing an HIV infection can be incredibly difficult as some of the virus hides dormant inside of cells making it essentially invisible to treatment, but now researchers out of Western University in London, Ont. believe they may have solved that problem.
Power has been mostly restored to thousands of residents who were left in the dark after a series of powerful thunderstorms swept through the city on Wednesday afternoon.
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Ontario won't settle for a "bad deal" when it comes to billions in required financial aid for municipalities, Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday, as the rift between the province and federal government over desperately needed civic funding appeared to widen.
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Ontario residents are more likely to wear a mask and wash their hands than those in other regions of Canada months into the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey says.
Additional arrests have been made and charges will be upgraded for a suspect allegedly involved in a shooting in Scarborough two months ago that left a Toronto woman dead, police say.
The federal deficit is projected to hit $343.2 billion this fiscal year, due in large part to massive economic aid and stimulus plans—that are on-par with Second World War level spending— that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government has rolled out in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Via Rail is temporarily laying off about 1,000 unionized employees as the company copes with interrupted routes and reduced travel demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Toronto Mayor John Tory says he disagrees with the Ford government’s proposed changes to provincial residential tenancy law that in some cases would make it easier for landlords to evict tenants who fall behind in paying rent.
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Ontario significantly overstated the costs of providing services to asylum seekers coming into Canada from the United States, the province's auditor general said Wednesday.
Bar and restaurant owners who deal in specialty alcohol say they've carved out a new business model around Ontario's relaxed rules for takeout liquor, and they'll fight to make the system permanent.
Mayor John Tory says a new priority bus-only lane that will connect Kennedy Station to the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus should be in place by this fall.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford vowed Wednesday to make air conditioning mandatory in the province's long-term care homes, though critics say any change will come too late for many residents already suffering in the stifling heat.
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The federal Liberals are to lay out Wednesday how they see the COVID-19 pandemic affecting government finances for the fiscal year including an estimated deficit and a projected path for the economy.
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