Trevor Dunn

With COVID-19 dominating public health units around the world, Toronto Public Health has quietly suspended a program that protects residents against another dangerous infectious disease: Lyme.

With the return to in-person learning less that a week away, Ontario’s vaccination rate for the five-to-11-year-old age group has stalled at 45 per cent. What’s behind the lag is still unclear.

Three years after the Doug Ford government received a key report on making Ontario more accessible for people with disabilities, its author says little has been done to achieve its goals and there doesn’t appear to be a plan in place to fix that.

While Ontario business leaders are cheering the government’s latest easing of COVID-19 restrictions, some say it’s going to take more to convince a wary public that it’s safe to return to old spending habits.

After having most of their high school education disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s graduating students faces new challenges inside and outside of the classroom as they prepare to enter post-secondary life.

As COVID-19 restrictions are lifted, many Toronto offices large and small will be welcoming back employees this month. But it will not be a return to the workplace as we knew it, employers say.

While face covering requirements will be lifted elsewhere on March 21, public transit is one of several settings in which the government will still require them until April 27.

Authorities at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport have a warning for March Break travellers on what’s expected to be the busiest day there since the pandemic began. “Pack your patience,” they say, because some COVID-19 restrictions are still in place.

A number of students at Northern Secondary School were this week involved in the use of racist and misogynistic language on Snapchat, according to principal Adam Marshall.

According to Homes First, seniors are increasingly in danger of eviction and becoming homelessness. The organizations says the situation is worsening due to Toronto’s aging population, rising inflation and the increasingly expensive housing market.

Migrant workers who get “rescued” in anti-human trafficking raids in Canada may find themselves worse off, an advocate says. Syed Hussan spoke to CBC News after Mexico’s consulate in Toronto said more than 60 Mexicans were picked up in two police raids in Ontario last month.

With the new Nov. 1 deadline a week away, more providers are opting into the $10-a-day child-care program, following a series of tweaks and a deadline extension from the Ontario government.

Air Canada is apologizing after not allowing a passenger who’s blind to board a flight from Toronto to Minneapolis with her guide dog. Dena Wainwright, 49, says she will never fly the airline again after an ordeal that cost her $2,000.

Doctors and pharmacists in Canada are having trouble finding an important antibiotic for treating bacterial infections in children, and some are insisting a surge in respiratory illnesses is contributing to the shortage.

With Ontario’s health-care system already in crisis, a new study has found that nearly 20 per cent of family doctors in Toronto will be closing their practices in the next five years.

David A. Balfour Park recently reopened after more than four years and $4.8 million of construction. Upgrades include new pathways, benches, lighting. But some advocates are asking why its new washroom facility is closed for the winter.

High commercial rents are forcing independent businesses off Toronto’s Roncesvalles Avenue, a process that locals say will convert the street’s quirky character into the more corporate retail environment of other popular city streets.

Now that Ontario education workers have voted in favour of a new contract with the Ontario government, the focus shifts to the province’s other major education unions.

Even after filing a police report and spending hours on the phone with Walmart customer service, Hassan Gerami, 77, and Maliheh Banej Shafiei, 72, still owe more than $4,000 on their Walmart Rewards Mastercard.

Toronto’s Port Lands could handle more housing if city planners call for it, according to one of the project’s managers. The plan to build new neighbourhoods on the 715 acres of land on the waterfront is now a target for more density in Mayor John Tory’s 2023 housing plan.