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Ontario’s finance minister says he will table his government’s fall economic statement next week, on Oct. 29.

Now that the Ontario government has confirmed that a provincewide pause on student financial assistance payments to career colleges will last for months, some students say they’re worried it will prevent them from graduating.

A pause on student financial assistance payments across all private post-secondary institutions in Ontario will stay in effect until at least the new year, the province’s colleges and universities minister announced Tuesday.

Ontario is planning to make over-the-counter hearing aids available in the province for people with mild hearing loss.

Ontario’s Minister of Education is asking all schools and board offices in the province to lower their flags to half-mast indefinitely in a show of support for the victims of the Canadian Forces Base Wainwright tragedy.

An Ontario career college has suspended its academic operations as a result of a province-wide pause on student financial assistance to all private post-secondary institutions.

A Guelph, Ont. psychotherapist is calling on the Ontario government to expand public health insurance coverage for mental health services.

A recent pause on financial assistance payments to private post-secondary institutions in Ontario is affecting divinity schools, Canada’s National Ballet School and many others, with students feeling unfairly swept up in what they describe as a trawling net-like policy.

SeatGeek Canada is facing two more fines from the Ontario government for allegedly contravening a recent law capping the sale of event tickets at face value.

The Supreme Court of Canada heard arguments Thursday from a coalition challenging the constitutionality of legislation that clears the way for major changes at Ontario Place.

Ontario’s Colleges and Universities Ministry is alleging it could not “reliably determine bona fide studies” at two of the career colleges it barred from student financial aid — a decision those schools are now challenging in court.

Demonstrators trying for a second day to block roadwork to remove Toronto bike lanes were met by police on Wednesday, deepening a faceoff between Premier Doug Ford’s government and cycling advocates.

Cyclists challenging Ontario’s plan to tear up Toronto bike lanes will ask the Supreme Court of Canada to weigh in, the groups backing the case said Tuesday, as more removal work was slated to begin.

The province’s police watchdog is looking for a new director as the current head of the Special Investigations Unit is set to step down at the end of the year.

Work to remove the bike lanes on Bloor Street West is set to begin next week.