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HAMILTON — Ottawa is backing a new study investigating COVID-19 immune response and vaccine hesitancy in the South Asian community. The federal government is investing roughly $1.

Housing and tenant advocates are calling on Ontario to reinstate a ban on residential evictions that lifted Wednesday as the province's stay-at-home order expired.

WHITCHURCH–STOUFFVILLE, Ont. — A man who frequented gatherings dressed up as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny is facing additional sexual assault charges involving a child he used to babysit.

TORONTO — Ontario schools will remain closed for in-person learning for the rest of the academic year, Premier Doug Ford announced Wednesday, while hinting the province could reopen ahead of schedule.

MILTON, Ont. — One person is dead following a house fire in Milton, Ont., west of Toronto. Halton Regional Police were called to a home on Steeles Avenue West at 12:30 Wednesday morning for reports of a fire in part of a six-unit townhouse.

SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND RIVER, ONTARIO — Canada's largest First Nations territory is asking the federal government to help it search the grounds of a former residential school for unmarked graves.

TORONTO — Calls mounted on Tuesday for Premier Doug Ford to announce whether Ontario schools will reopen for the rest of the month.

Several COVID-19 vaccine clinics in Toronto are asking residents to wait their turn for a second shot, saying staff have been harassed by people demanding to be fully vaccinated despite not being eligible.

TORONTO — Ryerson University's school of journalism says it will rename two of its publications ahead of the new school year, dropping any reference to the man the school is named after.

TORONTO — A young man who was on a fatal school canoe trip nearly four years ago says he didn't notify the supervising teacher that a student who later drowned appeared to be a bad swimmer.