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Toronto's board of health asked the city's top doctor Tuesday to consider reinstating mask mandates amid a surge in viral illnesses that's sending children to hospital at alarming rates.

TORONTO — Students were back in classrooms Tuesday as Ontario education workers returned to the bargaining table with the government to discuss an offer the premier described as "improved," though both sides remained far apart.

The University of Waterloo is reinstating a mask requirement for classes, saying Tuesday that it was making the move to avoid potential disruption to the exam season as cases of respiratory illnesses rise.

Ontario's premier and a top minister have "valuable evidence" to offer the Emergencies Act inquiry, but will not have to testify due to immunity provided to them by parliamentary privilege, a Federal Court judge ruled Monday.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford is justifying his proposal to remove land from the environmentally protected Greenbelt in order to build homes, saying the housing crisis has worsened and will become more dire because of increased immigration.

TORONTO — A strike by GO Transit workers that began Monday shut down regional bus service across the Greater Golden Horseshoe, leaving commuters scrambling to make last-minute changes to their travel plans.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford backed down Monday on controversial education-worker legislation that includes the notwithstanding clause, saying he's willing to repeal the law – but only if the workers end a walkout that's shut hundreds of schoo

Toronto police's homicide squad is investigating after a man found with a stab wound died of his injuries. Police say officers found the injured man on Sunday evening. He was taken to hospital for treatment.

TORONTO — Ninety-two per cent of licensed child-care operators in Ontario have signed on to the national $10-a-day child-care program, The Canadian Press has learned. Nov.

TORONTO — Commuters across much of southern Ontario may find themselves scrambling for alternative means of transport after the union representing 2,200 GO Transit employees announced members would be walking off the job as of Monday morning.