"For years we've been asking for help."

The Ontario premier, who has been facing fierce criticism over the handling of COVID-19 outbreaks in seniors homes, said some inspections were done by phone.

Correctional officers in Ontario have resolved a weeks-long dispute with the government over permission to wear face masks inside provincial jails during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Ottawa-Carleton Detention went into lockdown Tuesday after the entire morning shift of correctional workers refused to enter the institution.

The union representing Ontario's correctional workers says an employee at a Toronto jail is being tested for COVID-19.

The budget cuts by the Ford government include slashing 30 per cent, or $133 million, in funding for Legal Aid.

Chris Jackel, the chair for the corrections division of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, says the deal is retroactive to 2018.

The alliance between Unifor and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union comes in the wake of Ford's comments about the pending closure of a General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ont.

In early October, 22 employees for Addiction and Mental Health Services in Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington were told they would no longer be employed, but it came with options.

"I don't want to see the house of labour fall apart," OPSEU president Warren Thomas said in an interview. "I am not going to sit around and not try."