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TORONTO — The decision to end funding for a program that provides care for patients without health insurance will not be reversed, Ontario's health minister said Monday as she defended the move that's come under fire from the province's doctors.

TORONTO — On blue cardstock taped to the outside of a Toronto subway station, the messages of mourning grew.

TORONTO — Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones is defending a move to reduce the frequency of eye exams for healthy seniors, saying Monday that changes to funding for optometry services involve "fine tuning" the coverage.

TORONTO — Multidisciplinary artists from Vancouver and Toronto are in the running for the $50,000 Scotiabank Photography Award.

Several public health units in southwestern Ontario say they've seen a spike in cases of whooping cough and are urging residents to get vaccinated against the respiratory illness that can be particularly severe in young children.

TORONTO — Jockey Steve Bahen, who rode 82-1 long-shot T J's Lucky Moon to a stunning victory in the 2002 Queen’s Plate, retired Monday. Bahen, a 56-year-old Montreal native, had been pondering retirement since the end of the 2022 season.

TORONTO — When Kylie Masse looks around the pool deck at Toronto's Pan Am Centre, she sees a lot of friendly, familiar faces from Canada's swimming community.

A union representing about 3,000 teaching assistants and contract instructors at Carleton University says its members have gone on strike.

TORONTO — Dye & Durham Ltd. says it is considering spinning out its TM Group business in addition to a possible sale after agreeing with the United Kingdom's competition regulator last year that it would dispose of the business.

TWEED, Ont. — Nearly two dozen small municipalities in Ontario will share $5.5 million to help with recovering from extreme weather.