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TORONTO — Ontario students will soon be required to pass a financial literacy test as part of a number of changes coming to the requirements needed to earn a high school diploma.

TORONTO — A fifth girl accused in the death of a homeless man in Toronto's downtown core is expected to plead guilty. Court heard the teen is expected to plead guilty to manslaughter on June 24.

TORONTO — An arbitrator has awarded Ontario's elementary teachers a raise of nearly 12 per cent over the course of its four-year deal with the province.

CHATHAM, Ont. — Almost two years after a 22-year-old woman was found dead in a southwestern Ontario house fire, police have charged a man with first-degree murder.

A McMaster University professor, whose alleged pattern of sexual misconduct with multiple students involved behaviour the university called "unethical, inappropriate and in some instances exploitative," has been fired.

TORONTO — Students and staff at a Toronto Jewish girls school that was the target of a shooting over the weekend are shaken but undeterred, the principal said Monday as police continue to investigate the incident.

Police in Peel Region say they've arrested 16 people as part of an auto-theft investigation that has resulted in the recovery of 369 stolen vehicles.

TORONTO — Ontario's privacy commissioner says she will publish a special report about the use of non-government emails and deleted messages related to the Greenbelt.

TORONTO — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators who have been camped out at the University of Toronto for weeks planned to present a counter-offer to school administrators on Sunday, hours before a deadline university officials have set for clearing the enca

TORONTO — Toronto police say two suspects fired gunshots at a Jewish girls school early Saturday morning and damaged the building. Investigators say nobody was injured in the shooting, which happened shortly before 5 a.m.