Ontario News

TORONTO — Ontario will soon allow pharmacists to prescribe an antiviral drug used to reduce severe outcomes from COVID-19. Starting on Dec. 12, pharmacists can prescribe Paxlovid to eligible patients at no cost, both in person or virtually.

TORONTO — Canada's financial regulator is raising the amount of capital major banks need to have on hand over concerns of high household debt levels and other elevated systemic vulnerabilities.

HAILEYBURY, Ont. — An Ontario court is expected to learn next week whether Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard will decide to be tried for sexual assault before a judge or a jury in northern Ontario.

TORONTO — Fred VanVleet says his recent social media activity has nothing to do with his shooting slump.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Police are investigating after one man was shot dead outside a roller-skating rink west of Toronto. Peel Regional Police say officers were called to a shooting in the Scooter's Roller Palace parking lot in Mississauga, Ont.

OAKVILLE, Ont. — Rachel Homan defeated South Korea's Eun Ji Gim 6-2 on Wednesday night at the Grand Slam of Curling's Masters competition. Homan, from Ottawa, secured the round-robin victory with three points in the seventh end.

TORONTO — It was anything but pretty. But Toronto Raptors guard Fred VanVleet was pleased with the professionalism of his team in dispatching a Lakers squad missing LeBron James and Anthony Davis.

TORONTO (AP) — Pascal Siakam had 25 points and 10 rebounds and the Toronto Raptors routed Los Angeles 126-113 on Wednesday night, beating a short-handed Lakers team playing without LeBron James and Anthony Davis.

HAMILTON — James Hardie completed a hat trick by scoring 18 seconds into overtime to give the Mississauga Steelheads a 5-4 victory over the Hamilton Bulldogs on Wednesday. Zakary Lavoie and Owen Beck also scored for the visiting Steelheads.

Indigenous leaders from across Ontario called Wednesday for the repeal of a new housing bill they said was passed without properly consulting First Nations and could put their communities at risk.