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Ontario will spend $8.4 million over three years on a provincial police program that aims to improve responses to mental health-related calls.

A new University of Ottawa study indicates 10 per cent of young people in Ontario say they have driven a car within an hour of consuming cannabis.

Tractor-trailers with hidden compartments were used to smuggle hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs from Mexico through the United States and into Canada, Toronto police said Tuesday as they announced a major takedown of an international operation.

Ontario's vaccine booking system has been described as complex, fractured, and frustrating, but as first-dose uptake tops 75 per cent, experts say it's getting the job done.

Ontario is reporting 296 COVID-19 cases and 60 deaths today, but the province says the numbers include older infections and deaths that are just now being counted.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — An Ontario utility says residents displaced by a large gas leak in Mississauga, Ont., can now go home. Enbridge Gas says its crews will be making repairs today.

TORONTO — A 24-year-old man has been arrested after a shooting over the weekend at a birthday party in Toronto left three children injured.

TORONTO — A Toronto hospital network says several vaccinated people have been infected in a COVID-19 outbreak at one of its facilities.

Toronto police allege a 45-year-old man poisoned a three-year-old child who died after eating cereal laced with an unnamed substance. They say they began an investigation on March 7 after the death of a child at a sleepover.

TORONTO — Officials and experts emphasized the interchangeability of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines on Monday as many more Ontarians became eligible to book accelerated second shots.