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TORONTO — Ontario doctors are advising people to keep up with vaccinations ahead of the fall, when illnesses including COVID-19 and influenza are expected to spread amid health system challenges one physician said he expects will likely worsen.

An eastern Ontario doctor accused of killing a patient last year was charged Wednesday with three more counts of first-degree murder. Ontario Provincial Police said the new charges against Dr.

Ontario will announce a plan for "health system stability and recovery" this week, Health Minister Sylvia Jones said Wednesday, revealing that one part will be to expand a program that allows paramedics to avoid taking patients to the ER on every cal

TORONTO — Ontario is extending the deadline for child-care operators to apply for the $10-a-day program and standardizing the process in an attempt to get more providers to sign up.

Mayors, police leaders and businesses in Ontario are calling on the province to provide more help in dealing with the growing homelessness and opioid crises gripping both big cities and small towns.

TORONTO — Public Health Ontario says there are now 529 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the province. The agency's latest report on the disease as of Monday reflects an increase in the case tally of 478 confirmed cases in Ontario as of last Wednesday.

Ontario is seeing far fewer forest fires this year than the 10-year average, and only a fraction of what it experienced last summer, when fires tore through a record amount of land in the province, according to the provincial government.

Ontario's highest court has ordered the provincial government to pay $3.

Police say a seven-year-old boy has died and seven people have been injured in a head-on collision near Orangeville, Ont.

WINDSOR, Ont. — Ontario's police watchdog says it is investigating after a Windsor, Ont., police officer shot a 70-year-old suspect while dealing with a man wielding a machete on Monday.