Ontario

• Ontario still short of long-term care bed goal, data in fiscal update show

  Ontario has built 6,700 new long-term care beds with 18,000 more underway, still short of its 58,000-bed goal by 2028; but officials say new funding will help meet the target.

  Health

  Nov 6
  
• $510M in lawyers’ fees in treaty case unreasonable, judge says

  The Ontario judge ruled the $510 million in lawyer fees for the treaty case was unreasonable and ordered it scaled back to $23 million.

  Canada

  Oct 29
  
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• Ontario’s fall fiscal update set for Nov. 6 as tariff impacts continue

  Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy says the fiscal update will be a plan to make the province's economy competitive and protect jobs.

  Politics

  Oct 21
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• Ontario advocates ask for child care certainty as federal deal nears expiration

  Ontario child-care advocates are urging the province to provide certainty as its deal with the federal government for $10-a-day-child care is set to expire in five months.

  Canada

  Oct 21
• Some Ontario grocers to end alcohol sales over empty collection requirement

  A number of independent grocers are threatening to stop alcohol sales ahead of the January 1 deadline that will require them to take back empties.

  Consumer

  Sep 23
• Province responds after Ontario township moves to suspend services with $2.5M in accumulated debt

  Fauquier-Strickland plans to halt all municipal services Aug. 1 due to a financial crisis. The province has responded, but the township’s future remains uncertain.

  Economy

  Jul 18
• Environment Canada issues heat warnings for parts of Ontario, Quebec amid heat wave

  Environment Canada issued its first significant heat warning of the season on Saturday for southern and eastern Ontario and southern and western Quebec.

  Canada

  Jun 21
• OB/GYN patient complaints up 29% over previous year: Ontario’s patient ombudsman

  OB/GYN complaints in Ontario rose 29%, citing poor communication, lack of trauma-informed care, and neglect, raising concerns about women's healthcare standards.

  Health

  Jun 12
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• Manslaughter charges laid in 2023 death of Ontario infant

  Provincial police say they have charged two people with manslaughter in the 2023 death of an infant in northern Ontario.

  Crime

  Jun 12
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• How Mennonite women are building bridges between public health and community amid measles outbreak

  Low German-speaking Mennonites face language, trust barriers amid Ontario’s largest measles outbreak in decades, as health workers push to bridge the gap.

  Health

  Jun 5