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TORONTO — The Ontario government should provide funding for anti-violence training programs and the hiring of mental health support staff to address violence in and around schools, a union representing high school teachers said on Thursday.

Health-care workers from across Canada could soon start practising in Ontario more quickly under legislation the provincial government plans to introduce next month.

TORONTO — Former Ontario Lt.-Gov. David Onley is set to be remembered at a state funeral on Jan. 30. Morley Bedford Funeral Services says Onley will lie in state at the legislature on Jan. 28 and Jan.

A proposal to ban tobogganing at all but two municipal parks in a city east of Toronto is drawing criticism from lawyers who say the plan won’t boost safety and could limit access to the popular winter pastime.

Toronto police are looking for a suspect after an alleged hate-motivated assault at a downtown subway station on Wednesday. Police said officers were called to Bloor-Yonge station around 8:30 a.m.

KITCHENER, Ont. — The Ontario New Democrat member of provincial parliament for Kitchener Centre has announced that she is stepping down this summer.

TORONTO — Preventing the poaching of staff is the top concern hospitals have about a new system of private clinics that will be used to cut the surgical backlog, the head of the province's hospital association said.

TORONTO — Ontario's integrity commissioner and auditor general both announced Wednesday that they would conduct separate investigations into the government's decision to open protected Greenbelt lands up to housing development.

THAMESVILLE, Ont. — Police say a couple in their 80s were found dead outside their southwestern Ontario home after a large storm hit the province just before Christmas.

THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Thunder Bay's embattled police chief has resigned. The Thunder Bay Police Board said it accepted a letter of resignation from Sylvie Hauth during a meeting on Tuesday with an effective date of Jan. 27.