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TORONTO — Ontario's pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause in legislation intended to prevent a strike by education workers is a dangerous and draconian move that could have implications for labour negotiations across the country, experts say.

TORONTO — A surge in hospitalizations for children that's expected to last months has prompted the agency overseeing Ontario's health system to direct general hospitals to accept patients 14 and older who need intensive care.

The likely preventable death of an Indigenous man in Thunder Bay police custody should be considered a homicide, a lawyer for his family argued as a coroner's inquest heard closing submissions Thursday.

TORONTO — A fog advisory remains in effect for some parts of the Greater Toronto Area, with Environment Canada warning of near-zero visibility and hazardous driving conditions.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — One man is dead following a shooting near Meadowvale Community Centre in Mississauga, Ont. Peel Regional Police were called to the Glen Erin Drive and Meadowvale Town Centre Circle area around 9:45 p.m.

The growth in health spending seen during the first two years of the pandemic will slow dramatically in 2022, predicts a report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information. The total health spending in Canada is still expected to rise by 0.

Canada's largest school board says it will keep schools closed for the duration of an Ontario education workers' strike planned for Friday, which the union has said will continue indefinitely.

Officers with Thunder Bay police had a "lack of human compassion" for people they were interacting with at the time when two men died of medical conditions while in custody, the force's acting police chief told an inquest on Wednesday.

Toronto police have identified a 17-year-old suspect wanted in connection with a shooting outside a high school in the city's east end that left one dead Monday. Police say the shooting took place outside Woburn Collegiate Institute around 3:20 p.m.

TORONTO — A union representing 55,000 Ontario education workers has indicated that a strike planned for Friday will continue indefinitely, potentiallyclosing many schools across the province, but the government is refusing to negotiate further unless