An Ontario court has thrown out a Charter challenge of a controversial long-term care law that allows hospitals to move people into homes they didn't choose, or charge them $400 a day if they refuse and want to stay in hospital.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has just confirmed what people in the province have been anticipating for months now: an early election, to be called in

Ontario residents looking for extra help paying the bills may get some benefit cheques in March. Most people should get their $200 “rebate” cheque from the provincial government soon. The Ford government announced last week that it had begun mailing out the cheques.

The organization, which helps provide legal services for low-income Ontarians, had a $229.5 million surplus last year – an amount industry experts urge spending to further expand who is eligible for services.

Police say the driver of the school bus is facing charges after a 22-year-old woman was struck and killed while walking within a crosswalk in Toronto.

Grand Erie Public Health and Southwestern Public Health are conducting contact tracing following the cases. Here are some of the possible exposure locations.

Plan on changeable wintry conditions for the Rochester region this Friday. Local lake effect snow will develop over Lake Ontario and occasionally bring some accumulations to parts of Rt. 104 and much of Wayne County into the afternoon.

Ontario St. in 1986, as that area of River North was transformed from little more than a row of gas stations to an entertainment district. Jim Avila reports for Channel 2 News in this clip from June 27,

The leader of Canada's most populous province of Ontario said Friday he will be calling an election next week because he needs a mandate to fight U.S. President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs. Conservative Premier Doug Ford said he will call an early election next Wednesday.

Trump pledged in his inaugural address that tariffs would be coming in a speech in which he promised a golden era for America. He later said Canada and Mexico could be hit with the tariffs as soon as Feb. 1, though he signed an executive order requesting a report coordinated by the Secretary of Commerce by April. 1.

But opposition politicians, including local MPP Lisa Gretzky (NDP — Windsor West) criticized the snap election call as a needless distraction. They argue Ford, who already holds a majority at Queen’s Park, does not need another mandate from Ontarians to address Trump’s threatened steep tariffs on all Canadian exports.