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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.

LONDON, Ont. — Former environment minister Jeff Yurek says he will resign his seat in the Ontario legislature next month.

TORONTO — Ontario is rolling out a new $10,000 grant for small businesses shuttered by the latest round of public health measures, the province announced Friday.

The pressure on Ontario's hospitals is expected to worsen in the coming weeks as more staff are forced off the job due to COVID-19 and admissions due to the virus climb, the head of the province's hospital association said, calling it a dire situatio

TORONTO — Habib Haghjoo cannot look at the only two photographs in his living room at his east Toronto home. But he cannot bring himself to take them down. Nothing else hangs on the walls in that room of his impeccably clean home.

TORONTO — Karen Aagaard wanted to send her daughter back to daycare this week but decided to keep her toddler home.

A First Nation in northern Ontario is waiting for military assistance a week after declaring an emergency over a COVID-19 outbreak that has now infected nearly half of its 400 residents.

Amid growing calls from teachers, child-care workers, parents and opposition politicians, the Ontario government announced Thursday that it would be accelerating booster shots for school and child-care staff to help protect them and the children they