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KITCHENER, Ont. — Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones says the province is starting three programs aimed at bolstering staffing in the health-care sector.

TORONTO — A man died after a shooting in Toronto's Greektown early Sunday morning, just hours after a memorial marking the fifth anniversary of a mass shooting in the same neighbourhood.

TORONTO — Pulin Shah feels a sense of unease every time he passes the corner in his Toronto neighbourhood where a mother of two was killed by a stray bullet earlier this month.

ORILLIA, Ont. — Ontario Provincial police say a 26-year-old man has died after he fell out of a minibus that then hit him. Officers at the Orillia division say it happened just before 11 p.m. Saturday in Severn Township.

TORONTO — Survivors of a mass shooting in Toronto's Greektown gathered on Saturday evening with their relatives and other mourners to mark five years since the attack on the city's bustling Danforth Avenue.

Police have identified Hussein Hamam, 17, as the victim of a fatal fire in Ottawa on Wednesday. Ottawa police say officers responded to a "suspicious" fire on July 19 just after midnight.

LONDON, Ont. — Ontario's police watchdog is probing the death of a 35-year-old man shot by police in London, Ont.

TORONTO — Peel Regional Police believe multiple suspects lured a food delivery driver with a pizza order before a deadly carjacking in Mississauga, Ont., earlier this month.

WINDSOR, Ont. — The union representing striking Ontario salt mine workers says it has reached a tentative deal with Windsor Salt.

TORONTO — Members of several First Nations rallied outside the Ontario legislature Thursday to raise concerns about mining exploration they say is happening on their lands against their will.