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Thousands of Ontario education workers are on picket lines indefinitely as of Friday in defiance of a provincial government law that has imposed a contract on 55,000 workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees and banned them from s

Thousands of Ontario education workers hit picket lines across the province Friday morning, honking noisemakers, waving flags and chanting "stand up, fight back," on the first day of an indefinite walkout that's shut many schools.

Thunder Bay police and paramedics should receive mandatory, ongoing training on anti-Indigenous racism, unconscious bias and the history of colonization, an inquest jury recommended Friday after examining the police custody deaths of two First Nation

About 2,200 GO Transit bus operators, station attendants and other employees will go on strike Monday, the union representing them said Friday – with the potential job action set to affect some transit service.

TORONTO — Several Ontario school boards said Friday they will move to remote learning next week indefinitely if an education workers' strike continues.

TORONTO — Ontario is proposing to remove land from the protected Greenbelt in order to build at least 50,000 new homes, while adding new land to it elsewhere – contradicting a pledge made last year.

TORONTO — Fog that descended on much of southern Ontario for periods of time in recent days can be attributed to cool nightly temperatures and weak winds, and isn't uncommon for this time of the year, an Environment Canada meteorologist said Friday.

Toronto police have arrested a 17-year-old suspect after a shooting outside a high school in the city's east end this week that left one dead. Police say the shooting took place outside Woburn Collegiate Institute around 3:20 p.m.

TORONTO — Union members across Ontario are expected to join picket lines in solidarity with education workers planning a strike Friday, with one union saying its workers will also be walking off the job for the day in an expression of support.

TORONTO — More than 50,000 Ontario education workers will stage an indefinite strike starting Friday, despite the government enacting a law to make it illegal, with their union warning parents to make alternate arrangements into next week.