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TORONTO — Ontario will soon begin easing COVID-19 restrictions, starting by reopening businesses such as restaurants, gyms and cinemas with capacity limits and boosting the size of social gatherings – all with an eye to lifting nearly all constraints

High schoolers across Ontario are lobbying their school boards and the province for a "freeze" on grades for the remainder of this Omicron-interrupted semester after some boards said final marks wouldn't fall further than where they were at the end o

TORONTO — Police say two people who were seriously hurt in a fire in west-end Toronto have died. Toronto police say the flames broke out in a house (at Gladstone Avenue and Shanly Street) Wednesday night.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Police say they're investigating the deaths of two people found injured in a vehicle in Brampton, Ont., early this morning. Peel Regional Police say they were called to the area of Red Castle and Kershaw streets shortly after 2 a.m.

TORONTO — Parents in Toronto expressed mixed emotions as they dropped their kids off at school for the first time in weeks on Wednesday, saying they were worried about COVID-19 but glad to have their children get back to in-person learning.

TORONTO — Ontario is seeing "glimmers of hope" in its fight against the Omicron variant, the health minister said Wednesday, setting the stage for what the premier has called a positive announcement on restrictions that's expected Thursday.

TORONTO — Ontario's largest communities will get new funding to help speed up development approvals, Premier Doug Ford announced as he hosted a housing summit Wednesday, but the municipal leaders he met with say much stronger action is needed.

RICHMOND HILL, Ont. — Police north of Toronto are searching for a man accused of stealing an $8,000 guitar by hiding it in his pants — a feat captured on surveillance video. York Regional Police say the alleged theft happened on Dec.

The family of a gunsmith shot and killed by Toronto police launched a lawsuit against the service Tuesday, alleging officers used excessive force and failed to serve a search warrant when they raided the man's home in southwestern Ontario late last y

Educators returned to Ontario classrooms this week with little information about COVID-19 cases in schools and some early signs of related staff shortages taking shape in regions that weren't affected by heavy snow.