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TORONTO — Ontarians are being advised to keep up with vaccinations and wear masks indoors as doctors warn of a worsening respiratory illness season that's hitting children – and the pediatric health system – particularly hard.

The Ontario government says it is introducing a mandatory learning requirement on Holocaust education to the province's Grade 6 curriculum.

NEWMARKET, Ont. — Police have charged a photographer after investigating complaints from students about alleged sexual assaults at their Newmarket, Ont., school. York Regional Police say they began an investigation into the 30-year-old Barrie, Ont.

LEAMINGTON, Ont. — Police say a man has been charged with impaired driving and other offences in a collision that killed two people in southwestern Ontario earlier this year.

TORONTO — Police say a man has been charged with second-degree murder in a fatal stabbing in Toronto earlier this week. Toronto police say they responded to reports of a stabbing on Sunday evening and found a wounded man.

TORONTO — The union representing striking GO Transit bus operators, station attendants and other employees will return to the negotiating table on Friday.

Toronto's board of health asked the city's top doctor Tuesday to consider reinstating mask mandates amid a surge in viral illnesses that's sending children to hospital at alarming rates.

TORONTO — Students were back in classrooms Tuesday as Ontario education workers returned to the bargaining table with the government to discuss an offer the premier described as "improved," though both sides remained far apart.

The University of Waterloo is reinstating a mask requirement for classes, saying Tuesday that it was making the move to avoid potential disruption to the exam season as cases of respiratory illnesses rise.

Ontario's premier and a top minister have "valuable evidence" to offer the Emergencies Act inquiry, but will not have to testify due to immunity provided to them by parliamentary privilege, a Federal Court judge ruled Monday.