Ontario

Ford cracking down on pandemic price gouging in Ontario

By • Mar 30, 2020

Ontario premier Doug Ford is condemning the practice of price gouging during the COVID-19 pandemic and says individuals or businesses who price gouge could face staggering fines.


Ontario, Quebec order all non-essential businesses to close at midnight

By & Marian Hetherly • Mar 24, 2020

Ontario's and Quebec's premiers are ordering non-essential businesses to close their workplaces by midnight Tuesday, provinces are contemplating closing their borders to each other, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has hinted that harsh measures might be used to keep people from gathering in groups.

Ontario announces its first death due to COVID-19

By • Mar 18, 2020
CBC

Ontario is reporting the first death related to the COVID-19 virus.

Ontario declares state of emergency amid COVID-19 pandemic

By • Mar 17, 2020
Twitter / CBC

The premier of Ontario has declared a province-wide state of emergency because of the coronavirus pandemic.


Ontario closes schools for two weeks following March break

By • Mar 13, 2020

Ontario is closing all of its schools for two weeks following their March break, which starts at the end of the day Friday.


Coronavirus-positive Ontario doctor signals need for continual testing of healthcare workers

By • Mar 12, 2020
Jon Hamilton / NPR

A Hamilton, ON cancer doctor has been diagnosed with COVID-19. Now, dozens of patients and other medical staffers are faced with quarantine.

Number of coronavirus cases rises to 20 in Ontario

By • Mar 4, 2020

The number of coronavirus cases in Ontario has more than doubled in the past week, with the greatest number of new cases coming over the weekend. As of Tuesday, there were 20 confirmed cases in the province.


Toronto woman tests positive for coronavirus

By • Feb 24, 2020

Public health officials in Ontario have confirmed a new presumptive positive case of coronavirus in Toronto. The patient is a woman in her twenties who is now recovering in isolation at home.


Ontario teachers planning province-wide strike Friday

By • Feb 20, 2020

Ontario's public school teachers are planning a massive protest at the legislature Friday, as they're set to hold a joint, provincewide strike.

Ontario's New License Plates Have A Problem: You Can't Read Them

By • Feb 19, 2020

Ontario's newly-designed license plates just hit a speed bump. Call it plate-gate.

A little background: The Canadian province's new design was unveiled by the provincial government — led by center-right Ontario Premier Doug Ford — last year.

Cuomo: 'Take this coronavirus seriously'

By & • Jan 29, 2020
Aaron Favila / AP

A tenth individual in New York State has been identified for testing for the novel coronavirus, while two confirmed cases in Ontario have canceled celebrations for the Chinese New Year.

Canada reports two cases of coronavirus, expects more

By • Jan 27, 2020

Canadian health officials say more cases of the coronavirus north of the border would not be unexpected. On Monday morning, a second presumptive case was reported: the Ontario wife of the first man diagnosed with the respiratory illness. Still, health authorities insist the risk to Canadians remains low.

Ontario teachers' unions taking collective job actions over stalled contract talks

By • Jan 14, 2020
Eileen Buckley / WBFO News

All four of Ontario's major teacher unions have now announced job action over what they say are stalled contract talks with the province.

GTA must reduce carbon emissions 4x faster, report says

By • Jan 9, 2020

The Greater Toronto Area, including Hamilton, has very little time to develop a plan to deal with greenhouse gas emissions. That finding comes in a report by an agency tasked with the job of fighting climate change.


Canadians mourn 63 citizens killed in Iran plane crash

By • Jan 9, 2020

Flags have been lowered across the Greater Toronto Area to remember the victims of the Ukraine International Airlines crash in Iran. All 176 people on board were killed and 63 were Canadians. As Dan Karpenchuk reports, more than a dozen were from Ontario.


Ontario's ban on in-store promotion of vaping products takes effect

By • Jan 6, 2020

A new ban on the promotion of vaping products in Ontario is now in effect for convenience stores and gas stations. The regulations were announced by the Ontario government several months ago to try to stem the increase in vaping among young people.

Ontario workers challenge law capping wage increases

By • Dec 20, 2019

Union workers in Ontario are more restive than festive in the lead-up to Christmas. A coalition of ten unions is challenging the Ford government’s new law capping public sector wage increases for the next three years.


Ontario teachers say strike is over issues, not money

By • Dec 6, 2019

Hundreds of thousands of Ontario students stayed home one day this week, as teachers set up picket lines across the province. It’s the latest escalation as the teachers and the Ontario government remain far apart in contract talks.


Ontario report finds 6 in 100 acute-care patients harmed by hospital stay

By • Dec 4, 2019
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Ontario's auditor general says nearly 70,000 patients  - or six in every 100 - are injured while receiving care in Ontario's hospitals each year and called for immediate government action to help reduce that number.

Where does the most crime happen in Ontario? Not where you think

By James Morgan • Nov 25, 2019
James Morgan / NCPR News

Are ranking lists a good or bad thing? This week, Maclean’s magazine - which is much like TIME or Newsweek in the United States - released a list of the most dangerous places for crime in the country. To American readers, Canadian crime might seem like an oxymoron, but the truth is, we have it, it’s often violent and it happens in places that seem least likely.

Ontario starting to merge health agencies, fire local CEOs

By • Nov 13, 2019
OHIP

Ontario is starting to merge the province's major health agencies such as Cancer Care Ontario and eHealth under one umbrella and firing the CEOs of nine Local Health Integration Networks.

Cell phone limits go into effect in Ontario classrooms

By • Nov 4, 2019

New restrictions on the use of cellphones in classrooms across Ontario go into effect Monday.

No more free rides for Ontario drivers through NYS cashless tolls

By • Oct 25, 2019
New York State Thruway Authority

The New York State Thruway Authority has announced an agreement with Ontario regarding cashless tolls in the states.

Canadian election seen as referendum on Trudeau

By • Oct 18, 2019

With just days before Canadians go to the polls for a national election, the political parties and their leaders are pulling out all the stops to corral last-minute undecided voters. It has been a short 40-day campaign, and a tough one. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party and the opposition Conservatives began the contest neck-and-neck, and not much has changed.

Deal reached, education workers' strike averted in Ontario

By • Oct 8, 2019

A strike by 55,000 education workers in Ontario has been averted. A deal was reached late Sunday, just hours before picket lines were set to go up.


Ontario schools avoid strike at 11th hour

By • Oct 7, 2019
Ontario Schools

Ontario's provincial government has eked out a deal with the union that represents education workers, avoiding a strike deadline by just hours.

Ontario panel recommends new gov't body to track officer suicides

By • Oct 1, 2019

A coroner's panel reviewing the suicides of nine Ontario police officers last year has issued new recommendations designed to help improve the mental health of first responders across the province.

Dangerous drinking on the rise, especially among young women

By Marguerite Gallorini • Sep 30, 2019
Pixabay

Several studies show alcohol-related harms have sharply increased in many high-income countries, including the United States and Canada, and the sharpest rise was seen in young women. Marguerite Gallorini reports on what that means for public health and for the alcohol industry across the border in Ontario.


Carbon tax stickers on Ontario gas pumps attacked as political

By • Sep 13, 2019
Dan Karpenchuk

American travelers filling up at gas stations in Ontario will likely see a sticker at the gas pumps. It outlines the cost to Ontario taxpayers of the federal carbon tax.


New trial ordered for 2 convicted of terror plot against Buffalo-Toronto train

By • Aug 27, 2019
John Mantha / Chris Young / The Canadian Press

Ontario's highest court has ordered a new trial for two men found guilty of terrorism charges in connection with a plot to derail a passenger train bound from Buffalo to Toronto several years ago.

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