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TORONTO — Ontario is expanding workplace coverage of cancers for firefighters. Minister of Labour Monte McNaughton says pancreatic and thyroid cancers in firefighters will now be presumed to be work related.

HALTON HILLS, Ont. — One student is in hospital and another is in police custody following a stabbing at Georgetown District High School in Halton Hills, Ont.

TORONTO — Ontario Liberals are gathering this weekend for another attempt at party renewal following a second consecutive disastrous election result, and one of the main items on the agenda is setting the stage for a leadership race.

The Métis Nation of Ontario has voted to remove members who do not provide full documentation of a Métis connection or ancestry.

TORONTO — Ontario is extending a tuition freeze for public colleges and universities for a fourth year and forming an expert panel to "improve the financial sustainability" of the post-secondary education sector.

A growing number of rural municipalities in Ontario are expressing interest in implementing a four-day work week, a group that supports local governments says, as another community in the province begins offering the model to staff.

Southern Ontario is bracing for another spell of winter weather with heavy snow in the forecast. Environment Canada has issued winter storm watches for most of southern Ontario where it's forecasting up to 20 centimetres.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Police say an 18-year-old man and six youth have been charged with attempted murder after a stabbing outside a school in Brampton, Ont., this week.

Ottawa police have laid 12 charges against a 35-year-old man in connection to an explosion last month that injured 12 people. People in the Orleans area were awoken in the early morning of Feb.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — The case of a Toronto police officer charged with manslaughter and aggravated assault in the death of a 19-year-old has been put over to next month. Const.