Ontario allows visits by family to long-term care, retirement homes under strict health protocols
Jun 15, 2020, at 08:57 pm
Ottawa/IBNS: Canada has decided to gradually resume visits of family and friends to long-term care homes, retirement homes and other residential care settings in Ontario beginning June 18, authorities informed during a news conference on June 11.
Canada: Ontario getting COVID-19 pandemic by community transmission
Apr 29, 2020, at 10:46 pm
Ottawa/IBNS: Ontario public health officials have been perplexed by the continuing COVID-19 transmission in its communities despite six weeks of workplace closures, physical distancing, and stay-at-home measures, media reports said.
Ontario to promote education support for students with autism
Mar 14, 2019, at 10:35 pm
Ottawa, Mar 14 (IBNS): The Ontario government is promoting existing programs and supports for educators to ensure students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) feel safe and supported in their classrooms, media reports said.
Ontario Government to reform Social Assistance program
Aug 02, 2018, at 01:39 am
Toronto, Aug 2 (IBNS): Ontario is working on a plan to reform Social Assistance to help more people re-enter the workforce and get back on track than just depend on dole, media reports said.
Toronto Monday Van Attack victims identified
Apr 28, 2018, at 08:15 pm
Toronto, Apr 27 (IBNS): All of the victims of Monday's deadly van attack in Toronto have now been identified, media reports said.
Canada: Key facts and figures of Ontario 2018 Budget
Mar 29, 2018, at 06:43 pm
Ottawa, Mar 29 (IBNS): The 2018 Ontario budget unveiled by Ontario's Liberal government on Wednesday included billions in new spending on a variety of issues, media reports said.
Ontario, Canada's first province, to introduce pay transparency legislation
Mar 15, 2018, at 06:35 pm
Ottawa, Mar 15 (IBNS): Ontario has become the first province in Canada to introduce pay transparency to promote women's economic empowerment, media reports said.
Toronto's priority transit projects get $9 billion in funding
Mar 15, 2018, at 06:13 pm
Toronto, Mar 15 (IBNS): The Government of Canada and the provincial government of Ontario have earmarked almost $9 billion for Toronto's priority transit projects as part of their transit infrastructure funding plans, according to media reports.
Canada: University of Toronto's Centre for Planetary Sciences uses AI to count craters on the moon
Mar 14, 2018, at 07:03 pm
Toronto, Mar 14 (IBNS): Researchers at the University of Toronto (U of T), Ontario, have used the new technology behind self-driving cars to measure the size and location of crater impacts on the moon, media reports said.
Canada: Parminder Singh named Ontario Liberal Party candidate for Brampton East
Mar 10, 2018, at 07:27 pm
Toronto, Mar 10 (IBNS): Parminder Singh, the founding host of CBC’s former Hockey Night in Canada in Punjabi broadcast, was elected on Friday as the Ontario Liberal Party candidate for Brampton East (Ontario), media reports said.
Canada's Governor General Julie Payette visits Ontario for the first time
Feb 21, 2018, at 02:07 pm
Ottawa, Feb 21 (IBNS): During her first official visit to Ontario this morning, Canada's Governor General Julie Payette was received with a ceremonial welcome at the Legislative Assembly in Toronto, media reports said.
87 more grocery stores in Ontario to have access to beer and cider from April
Feb 05, 2018, at 05:07 am
Ottawa, Feb 4 (IBNS): Ontario is improving convenience and choice across the province by giving 87 more grocery stores access to selling beer and cider starting from April 2018, media reports said.
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to fund 6,900 supportive housing units
Jan 24, 2018, at 06:49 pm
Toronto, Jan 24 (IBNS): Ontario is collaborating with the City of Toronto's health care providers, shelter operators, the Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) and city staff to improve access to health services for homeless people or those using shelters, media reports said.
OSAP application process becomes more transparent for Ontario students
Jan 18, 2018, at 08:34 pm
Toronto, Jan 18 (IBNS): Ontario has decided to allow students -- who had applied for Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) for their college or university studies -- to see OSAP amount and net tuition fees online for each of the programs they have applied so that they can plan, budget and pay for their college or university education, media reports said.
Ontario investing in innovation of auto industry
Jan 17, 2018, at 05:21 pm
Toronto, Jan 17 (IBNS): Brad Duguid, Ontario Minister of Economic Development and Growth, and Navdeep Bains, Federal Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development announced in Guelph recently that Ontario and Canada are partnering with Linamar -- a leading name in Ontario’s manufacturing sector -- to boost Research & Development and help create up to 1,500 new jobs and retain about 8,000 others in the province, media reports said.
Ontario, Quebec, California formally sign Paris accord
Sep 24, 2017, at 08:01 am
Ottawa, Sep 23 (IBNS): Despite the withdrawal of the United States under the leadership of president Donald Trump, Ontario, Quebec and California have formally signed the climate-change deal, media reports said.
Ontario projects a balanced budget for 2017–18
Sep 09, 2017, at 07:43 pm
Toronto, Sep 9 (IBNS): With an increase in employment in Ontario by 31,100 in August, the second straight month of job growth, Ontario continued to project a balanced budget for 2017–18, unchanged from the 2017 Budget forecast, the newly released 2017-18 First Quarter Finances report said.
No more unsafe water for Ontario's Neskantaga First Nation community
Jul 29, 2017, at 07:10 am
Toronto, July 29 (IBNS): The Liberal government in Canada has decided to construct, upgrade and renovate the water plant in Neskantaga First Nation (aboriginal) community of Northern Ontario, bringing a huge relief to its people who are using unsafe tap water for last 22 years.
LCBO approves four-year contract for casual workers
Jul 22, 2017, at 07:59 pm
Toronto, Jul 22 (IBNS): A new collective agreement that limited the percentage of casual workers was narrowly approved recently by Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) members at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO).
Ontario Auto insurance premium increases again, a structural flaw in the system
Jul 21, 2017, at 05:03 am
Toronto, July 20 (IBNS): Approved rates posted by the Financial Services Commission of Ontario -- a regulatory agency of the Minister of Finance that regulates the automobile insurance of Ontario- has shown an average increase of 0.76 percent in the second quarter of 2017 while last quarter’s rates rose by an average of 1.24 percent, media reports said.
Ontario responds to UN officials’ call for urgent action to prevent famine
Apr 24, 2017, at 08:31 am
Toronto, Apr 23 (Just Earth News): Responding to the UN officials' call for urgent action to prevent famine in African region, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has stated that Ontario is contributing $2.5 Million for Emergency Relief Efforts in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria.
Canada: Three levels of government trying to rein in the soaring Toronto housing market
Apr 20, 2017, at 06:31 pm
Toronto, Apr 20 (IBNS): Charles Sousa, the Ontario Finance Minister, Bill Morneau, his Federal counterpart, and the mayor of Toronto, John Tory, met earlier this week to discuss on measures to rein in the red hot property market of Toronto, Canada.
Canada: Tookhar Tamasha Arts performance supports Project Udaan
Apr 08, 2017, at 09:28 pm
Toronto, Apr 8 (BNS): Performance of Tookhar Tamasha Arts earlier this week, to celebrate Canada’s 150 anniversary with local and overseas performers in their field and in support of Project Udaan (PU), was organized at Glenforest Secondary school in Mississauga, Ontario.
Ontario calls for equal pay for women
Apr 03, 2017, at 11:03 pm
Toronto, Apr 3 (IBNS): Indira Naidoo-Harris, Ontario’s Minister for the Status of Women, has said although women made up some 55 percent of the workforce within the public service, they take home about 12 percent less money than their male counterparts, media reports said.
Wynne and Snyder reaffirm strong partnership between Ontario and Michigan
Mar 14, 2017, at 04:37 pm
Toronto, Mar 14 (IBNS): Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Michigan Governor Rick Snyder in a meeting on Monday in Detroit released a joint statement in which they reaffirmed their strong partnership and discussed ways to advance their integrated economies to create jobs, a media reports said.
Canada: Dog dragged by car for nearly a kilometre
Feb 07, 2017, at 07:38 am
Toronto, Feb.6 (IBNS): Niagara Regional Police have charged two suspects after they received calls last Thursday that a small dachshund-beagle mix had been dragged about 800 metres by a car before it struck another vehicle, media reports said.
Canada gets a Christmas gift in the form of rescued dogs from China
Dec 25, 2016, at 02:18 pm
Toronto, Dec 25 (IBNS): Canada gets a Christmas gift when more than 100 rescued dogs from China would soon find new homes in the nation due to the efforts of Humane Society International (HSI), said media reports.
Canada: London Humane Society warns of serial animal killer in London, Ontario
Dec 24, 2016, at 09:50 pm
Toronto, Dec 24 (IBNS): Pet owners had been warned about a possible serial animal killer on the loose by a southwestern Ontario humane society after it received several news of hideous crimes regarding mutilated animals, media reports said.
Western University researcher creates world's 'smallest snowman'
Dec 24, 2016, at 04:04 am
Toronto, Dec 23 (IBNS): A research scientist at an Ontario University has created a microscopic figure of a snowman, a few days before Christmas, media reports said.
Canadian performer Gordie Tapp passes away
Dec 20, 2016, at 02:45 pm
Toronto, Dec 20 (IBNS): Gordie Tapp, Canadian entertainer, a comedian, musician and script writer, who found success in radio and TV, died in his Burlington house, Ontario, Sunday at the age of 94, media reported.