Next month’s solar eclipse appears to have piqued interest in hotels and home rentals across Ontario cities as stories around dwindling availability and rising prices are circulating weeks before the celestial event. Jack Kratoville, a would-be traveller from New York City seeking to join the frenzy in Niagara Falls, says …
Read More »Broadcast veteran looks back at career ahead of new radio show for Ontario listeners
His listeners know him as ‘Mr. D’, but to his close friends and family, he is simply Damian. Damian Rickards, who is launching a new show on Corus Radio for Ontario listeners Monday, has been in the broadcasting business for more than 20 years, working at stations in Toronto, Kitchener, …
Read More »Ontario couple celebrating 65 years of marriage. Learn their secret to happiness
Not many couples get to the stage where they can celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary, but one couple from Wasaga Beach, Ont., is among the lucky few. Lois, 84, and Alexander (Alec) Boyter, 88, will mark their 65th anniversary on March 28, but their family has a celebration planned for …
Read More »Ontario man hits second $100K scratch ticket win in 6 months: ‘I couldn’t believe it’
Descrease article font size Increase article font size An Ontario man should be feeling pretty lucky after picking up his second $100,000 scratch ticket win in the last six months. Paul Fitchett of Frankford, Ont. says he isn’t a regular instant ticket buyer, but after winning a few smaller prizes …
Read More »Ontario gives Pickering $5.2M boost for surpassing 2023 housing target
Descrease article font size Increase article font size It was a record-breaking 2023 for the City of Pickering, after the city surpassed its housing target by 58 per cent. Officials and Premier Doug Ford gathered on Tuesday, March 13, to hand over a cheque for $5.2 million to the city, …
Read More »Search in Ontario for Indian Residential School burial sites continues
The Ontario government has committed over $65 million to search the grounds of 18 former Indian Residential Schools in the province looking for potential burial sites The number is an increase from the roughly $10 million Queen’s Park announced in the middle of 2021 to help with the identification, investigation, …
Read More »Meet an Ontario family who say they’re out of options for child care
Megan Saunders, 34, thought she was doing everything right to secure child care early on, but now she is finding herself in an impossible situation because of her daughter’s school zone. “I can put her in school, but I’d…lose my job because there is no before-and-after-school care available at the …
Read More »Ontario has to pay public sector workers $6B and counting in Bill 124 compensation
Ontario is so far on the hook for more than $6 billion in payments to broader public sector workers as a result of the provincial government’s wage restraint legislation being found unconstitutional. Bill 124 capped salary increases for broader public sector workers at one per cent a year for three years, …
Read More »Program helping northern Ontario ERs stay open set to expire
A program that helps rural and northern Ontario hospitals avoid temporary ER closures is set to expire at the end of the month, with no signal from the government as to whether it will be extended, made permanent or simply end. Many of the province’s more isolated hospitals rely on doctors from …
Read More »More cases of measles reported in Ontario in 2024 than all of previous year
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Public Health Ontario says there have been more confirmed cases of measles reported so far this year than in the previous year. As of March 13, only three months into the year, the public health unit said there have been eight lab-confirmed …
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