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Investigators are appealing to the public, especially Farsi- and Arabic-speaking communities, for information that could help them find a woman who was abducted from a home in Wasaga Beach, Ont., three months ago.

Toronto police have arrested and charged a man after two "random attacks" left a 21-year-old international student and a 35-year-old man dead in recent days.

Toronto Mayor John Tory says police and transit staff will be increasing patrols in the city's transit system in light of a mass shooting on a New York City subway.

TORONTO — Ontario is currently on the path to balance by next year, the province's fiscal watchdog said Tuesday, but it could well take a different route due to the looming June 2 election.

TORONTO — Ontario's New Democrats are promising to implement a minimum wage of $25 an hour for registered early childhood educators if the party forms government.

Ontario is reporting 1,366 people in hospital with COVID-19 today, and 190 in intensive care. That's compared with 1,090 hospitalizations on Monday, and 184 in ICUs.

TORONTO — The Ontario Liberals are announcing that they would establish $10-a-day before and after school care, provide a parental leave top up and bring back pay transparency legislation in a slate of election platform items aimed at women.

TORONTO — Ontario won't be reinstating its mask mandate despite a sixth wave that won't peak for several more weeks, the province's top doctor said Monday as he announced expanded eligibility for COVID-19 PCR testing and antiviral treatments.

Ontario is adding public college degree options in a bid to address labour force gaps. Public colleges can now start developing three and four-year degree programs that will prepare graduates for jobs in identified fields like the auto sector.

TORONTO — A portable MRI machine that brings imaging to a patient's bedside has the potential to revolutionize health care both in major hospitals and in remote areas of the country, doctors say.