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Ontario Premier Doug Ford promised Monday to maintain a wage increase brought in for personal support workers during the pandemic but didn't say how or when his government would back up the pledge.

TORONTO — The Ontario government is investing in two summer programs to help address antisemitism in schools.

TORONTO — Environment Canada has issued heat warnings for parts of southern Ontario as temperatures soar. The warnings stretch from the Windsor area through Toronto and east to Durham Region.

Toronto police officers lined up to pay respects to a veteran cop who died in what investigators deemed an "intentional and deliberate act." The body of Const.

TORONTO — Ontario is reporting 213 new cases of COVID-19 today and nine more deaths from the virus. Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 49 new cases in the Waterloo Region, 42 in Toronto and 25 in Grey Bruce.

TORONTO — Police in Toronto have identified a teenage boy killed after being shot in the city's east end this weekend. The force says Caden Francis, 16, was found with gunshot wounds when police arrived at the scene Saturday night.

TORONTO — The family of a 32-year-old Toronto man gunned down in an apartment building lobby pleaded for information that would lead to the arrest of Chavaughn Jones' killers at a news conference Saturday.

TORONTO — Ontario is reporting 209 new cases of COVID-19 today and nine more deaths from the virus. Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 47 new cases in the Waterloo Region and 22 in Halton.

TORONTO — Ontario youth aged 12 to 17 can move up their second COVID-19 vaccine doses next week as the province eyes the return to classrooms in September.

A planned subdivision at the centre of an Indigenous land dispute near Caledonia, Ont., and Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation won’t go ahead, a developer behind the project confirmed on Friday.