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TORONTO — A paid sick-leave program is coming to Ontario within days, the province said Wednesday as critics accused the government of endangering essential workers by delaying action on the issue for months.

SUDBURY, Ont. — A 25-year-old man is facing charges in connection with a Sudbury, Ont., fire that claimed the lives of three people earlier this month.

Ontario's Superior Court of Justice has directed courts to defer as many matters as possible due to the pandemic. Chief Justice Geoffrey B.

OSHAWA, Ont. — The sentencing hearing for a Toronto-area man found guilty in the killing and dismemberment of two women a decade apart has been adjourned due to the pandemic. Last month, a judge found Adam Strong, of Oshawa, Ont.

Toronto police are asking for the public's help after four pieces of art were stolen from a midtown gallery. Police say they were called to an art gallery near Avenue Road and Davenport Road early Monday morning.

TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford's government said Tuesday it was considering a paid sick-leave program for essential workers amid warnings from its own science advisers that hospitals were "buckling" under the weight of COVID-19.

Quebec announced on Tuesday it will expand access to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to those 45 and over and extend the lockdown order in three regions, including Quebec City, until at least May 3.

Provincial police have asked another force to investigate a "physical confrontation" between an officer and a young person on a scooter in Gravenhurst, Ont.

L'ORIGNAL, Ont. — The case of an eastern Ontario doctor charged with murder in the death of a man at a hospital has been adjourned for two weeks. Police have accused Dr.

TORONTO — A key piece of video evidence at the trial of a teen accused of sexually assaulting two students at an all-boys Catholic school in Toronto is admissible, a judge ruled Tuesday.