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L'ORIGNAL, Ont. — An eastern Ontario doctor facing a murder charge has had his case adjourned to next month. Dr. Brian Nadler is accused of killing 89-year-old Albert Poidinger at the Hawkesbury and District General Hospital last year.

A company that owns a mine in northern Ontario says it has resumed operations at the site six months after 39 workers got trapped underground. In a statement, Vale says the Totten Mine near Sudbury, Ont.

TORONTO — Ontario's legislature has unanimously passed a motion authorizing the Speaker to bar an independent member from eastern Ontario from participating in the chamber.

TORONTO — Ontario intends to offer financial support for businesses affected by recent protests against COVID-19 measures, the province's finance minister said Tuesday as legislators debated the government's handling of the lengthy demonstrations.

TORONTO — Canada's largest public school board says it will provide more education on the Holocaust following a number of antisemitic incidents in schools, including one last week in which three middle-school students performed the Nazi salute in cla

Ontario is eliminating licence plate renewal fees in the name of saving drivers money, though Premier Doug Ford sounded less certain Tuesday about fulfilling a promise to cut gas prices.

Ontario is reporting 1,038 people in hospital with COVID-19, including 319 in intensive care. That's down from 1,403 hospitalizations and 364 in intensive care a week ago. The province is also reporting nine more deaths due to the virus.

Ontario says it is providing more stand-alone HEPA filter units for schools and child-care centres to offer more children greater protection against COVID-19.

PICKERING, Ont. — Police say a 72-year-old woman has been charged with second-degree murder after a woman's body was found in a wooded area near a creek in Pickering, Ont.

TORONTO — Pandemic recovery, housing and affordability will be top of mind for Ontario's party leaders as the legislature resumes sitting Tuesday for the last few weeks of the session ahead of a June election.