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Health Minister Sylvia Jones said the province accepted the deal on Wednesday after the two sides agreed to add reviews into the deal to ensure long-term sustainability.

The federal government supports calls from the premiers to establish a five-year review of health-care funding, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said in a letter to his Ontario counterpart.

Duclos to sit down with Ontario to negotiate bilateral health deal on Thursday

Canada's mental health crisis demands a national summit with representation from all levels of government, Toronto Mayor John Tory said Wednesday, claiming a lack of provincial and federal support is offloading responsibilities onto "ill-equipped" municipalities. 

Canada's transport minister says the federal government strongly encourages people to wear masks on planes and trains as regions across the country report increasing pressure on the health-care system, but he stopped short of making it a requirement.

Ontario government lawyers argued on Tuesday, November 1, 2022 there would be "irreparable harm" to the rule of law if Premier Doug Ford and a top minister were compelled to testify at a federal inquiry after citing parliamentary privilege in trying to avoid doing so.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and former solicitor general Sylvia Jones are challenging a summons to appear as witnesses at the public inquiry examining the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act.

For her part, Dr. Deena Hinshaw faces an unpleasant choice: Resign now or risk being made to wear this later if it goes sideways, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Waterloo started taking COVID-19 vaccine bookings for children as young as 12 on Tuesday as Ontario’s provincial government shifts focus from big-city hot-spot neighbourhoods where adolescents who are not also essential workers have been left out until at least July.

Ontario will administer the province's first COVID-19 vaccination today, December 14, 2020,with a health-care worker set to receive the dose in Toronto.

Outspoken Ontario police deputy commissioner Brad Blair is out of a job after accusing Premier Doug Ford of interfering with police operations.

The Ontario government is being taken to court by the family of a mentally ill man who died in solitary confinement at a Lindsay jail after a three-hour physical confrontation with guards, in what could be a ground-breaking, precedent-setting case for prison reform in the province.

Facing mounting criticism, the Ontario government is hitting the pause button on its appointment of Premier Doug Ford's friend to the top job at province's police force.

Ontario's Progressive Conservative caucus will meet today, January 26, 2018, to choose an interim leader following Patrick Brown's resignation in the face of sexual misconduct allegations.