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Libraries ask for Ontario-wide digital system to ensure equal access to materials

Libraries ask for Ontario-wide digital system to ensure equal access to materials

TORONTO — Ontario's libraries are asking the government to create a provincewide digital public library, to ensure residents in smaller municipalities have the same access to materials as people in large, urban centres.
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Peel Region police find missing Nipissing First Nation headdress

TORONTO — A headdress belonging to the chief of a northeastern Ontario First Nation has been located after a car it was in was allegedly taken from a hotel parking lot west of Toronto.
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Ontario's highest court hears Dellen Millard, Mark Smich appeals in Babcock murder

Ontario's highest court hears Dellen Millard, Mark Smich appeals in Babcock murder

TORONTO — The jury that found Mark Smich guilty of helping his once-close friend Dellen Millard murder an ex-lover was not properly told how to balance the evidence against him, his lawyer argued before Ontario’s highest court Monday.
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Toronto police ending overtime deployments on city transit system

Toronto police ending overtime deployments on city transit system

Toronto police are ending extra patrols on city transit that had been introduced after several high-profile cases of violence in the system, with the force saying it would "remain flexible" to respond to the public's safety concerns.
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Man fatally stabbed another man, shot and injured 2 officers in standoff: police

Man fatally stabbed another man, shot and injured 2 officers in standoff: police

A man at the centre of an armed standoff in London, Ont., is accused of fatally stabbing a man he knew before shooting and injuring two officers at an apartment building over the weekend, police said Monday.
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Early morning fire in Ontario First Nation kills 10-year-old child

Early morning fire in Ontario First Nation kills 10-year-old child

A 10-year-old child has died after an early morning fire on a First Nation in southwestern Ontario. Haldimand County OPP said emergency crews responded to a fire in the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation just before 2 a.m. on Monday. Const.
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Woman facing second-degree murder charge in death of Ottawa baby

Woman facing second-degree murder charge in death of Ottawa baby

Ottawa police have charged a 35-year-old woman with second-degree murder in the 2021 death of her seven-week-old baby.
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Ontario seeks to give remote workers mass layoff protections

Ontario seeks to give remote workers mass layoff protections

KITCHENER, Ont. — Ontario is proposing to strengthen rules around mass layoffs to include greater protections for employees who work remotely. Labour Minister Monte McNaughton made the announcement Monday in Kitchener, Ont.
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Ontario municipalities feel impacts of housing law, worry over little audit progress

Ontario municipalities feel impacts of housing law, worry over little audit progress

TORONTO — It has been more than three months since Ontario promised to make municipalities "whole" on a loss of development charge revenue due to a new provincial law, and they say they're concerned they've seen little to no movement.
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London man faces murder charge after standoff, accused of injuring two cops

London man faces murder charge after standoff, accused of injuring two cops

LONDON, Ont. — A man from London, Ont., is accused of killing one man and injuring two police officers over the course of a weekend standoff in the southwestern Ontario city.
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