Ontario

Members of Parliament return to the House of Commons on Monday, January 24, 2021, following a month-long break that was anything but restful to again face the ramification of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the threat of a possible election.

Teams of young people competing in a high school “ethics bowl” are looking to replace the zero sum nature of debating with a more collaborative approach to society’s dilemmas.

Dr. Samantha Hill said if people fear the vaccines they won't get them, and whether vaccines are delayed by supply issues or patients hesitant to take them, the result will be tragic.

A defamation lawsuit by the world’s largest fast-food operator against Canada's public broadcaster over a report on the chain's chicken sandwiches can proceed, Ontario's top court has ruled.

The sudden halt to sales while bills kept mounting was frightening for chef Rick Matharu in the early days of the pandemic. But with help from an interest-free federal loan, the owner of Rick’s Good Eats fusion diner in Mississauga turned a challenge into a partial win.

A decline in the number hospitalizations in Ontario and Quebec on Sunday, January 17, 2021, provided some small glimmers of a hope in a day marked by a rising COVID-19 death toll and record-breaking cases in New Brunswick.

Ontario residents dealt with their first day under a stay-at-home order on Thursday, January 14, 2021, while federal officials warned that access to vaccines in Canada will remain a challenge until at least April.

New restrictions to fight skyrocketing rates of COVID-19 were being considered by Ontario's cabinet on Monday, January 11, 2021, night, although a curfew was not one of them.

In a four-minute YouTube video, a group of students from across Ontario read a letter to their teachers, asking them to push the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan to stop investing their retirement savings in oil, gas, coal, and pipeline companies.  

The COVID-19 pandemic continued to wreak havoc across the country on Sunday, Dec. 20, causing the first deaths in Nunavut and, according to media reports, pushing Ontario towards a provincewide lockdown.

Ontario will administer the province's first COVID-19 vaccination today, December 14, 2020,with a health-care worker set to receive the dose in Toronto.

When Kelly Lopes learned back in the spring that the Ontario government was ordering her teenaged children to stay home from school for their own safety but expected them and their parents to continue going to work, fear and anger set in almost immediately.

A prominent Canadian forecaster says the country's residents could experience everything from winter wonderlands to spring-like spells in the months ahead.