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TORONTO — Ontario's education minister has his eye on negotiations with teachers' unions, a day after the government reached a tentative deal with education workers to avert a strike – though developments are likely far off.

BRANT COUNTY — Ontario Provincial Police say a person has been charged with careless driving after a school bus drove a short distance with a child caught in its doors.

Climate change could intensify lake-effect storms like the one that dumped a record-setting amount of snow on some communities in southern Ontario this weekend, an Environment Canada meteorologist said Monday.

TORONTO — A union representing 55,000 Ontario education workers reached a tentative deal with the provincial government Sunday, averting a strike that had been planned for the next day.

Wintry weather sent flurries swirling across parts of Ontario on Sunday, capping multiple days of gusty winds and heavy precipitation for several regions slammed by intense bursts of snow.

TORONTO — Health-care advocates say they are preparing a possible constitutional challenge to an Ontario law that allows some discharged elderly hospital patients to be forced into a nursing home they did not choose.

TORONTO — The union representing 55,000 education workers in Ontario says negotiations with the province will continue through the weekend as both sides work to avert a possible Monday strike.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Police have charged a youth with attempted murder following a high school shooting northwest of Toronto.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — An 18-year-old male student was in hospital with life-threatening injuries Friday after being shot outside a high school northwest of Toronto, police said. Peel Regional Police Const. Sarah Patten said the shooting in Brampton, Ont.

TORONTO — Families should ensure everyone in their household gets vaccinated against the flu, a pediatrician group urged Friday as a triple-whammy of respiratory viruses continued to slam children's hospitals.