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TORONTO — Ontario municipalities have been forced to turn down thousands of child-care spaces in the $10-a-day system because of a limit on the percentage of for-profit spaces in the province's deal with the federal government, the provincial governm

CENTRAL HURON, ONT. — The mayor of the municipality where Alice Munro lived for much of her adult life says he would "consider" amending the monument to the celebrated writer outside the public library in Clinton, Ont.

Pro-Palestinian protesters dismantled their encampments at two southern Ontario universities over the weekend, while demonstrators at another university campus were handed a trespass notice Monday and warned legal action could follow.

GUELPH, Ont. — The University of Guelph says it has issued a trespass notice to pro-Palestinian protesters who set up camp on school grounds more than a month ago.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — The case of billionaire businessman Frank Stronach, who is accused of sexually assaulting 10 complainants, is due to return to a Brampton, Ont., court on Oct. 7.

HARROW, ONTARIO — Police say a mother and her two children found dead in their home near Windsor, Ont., last month were all shot in what they describe as a case of intimate partner violence.

WOODSTOCK, ONT. — Police in Woodstock, Ont., say a man is dead after he shot his partner outside a home then suffered an apparent gunshot wound.

BONFIELD, ONT. — Ontario Provincial Police say they found a large amount of lobster that had been dumped along a highway east of North Bay. Police say they received calls about lobster on the shoulder of Highway 17 in Bonfield on Tuesday.

Police say they have made two arrests in the deadly afternoon stabbing of a 39-year-old man at a Toronto subway station.

TORONTO — Thousands of workers are now on strike for the first time in the history of Ontario's main liquor retailer.