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Many of the personal support workers who left Ontario's long-term care system in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic due to poor pay and lack of full-time jobs have not returned, an independent commission has heard.

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays exercised the 2021 club option on reliever Rafael Dolis's contract and declined the club option for right-hander Chase Anderson.

TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors say they will fully support the NBA's investigation into the arrest of guard Terence Davis on assault charges. The team commented publicly on the issue for the first time in a statement released Friday.

A group from Ontario's restaurant industry is calling on the provincial government to explain its decision to impose tighter COVID-19 restrictions on the sector.

TORONTO — Glass Tiger has assembled a cadre of Canadian talent for their first full-length Christmas album. The band from Newmarket, Ont. released “Songs for a Winter’s Night,” a 10-track collection of largely original music for the holidays.

TORONTO — The COVID-19 pandemic cancelled sports programs, curtailed music lessons and limited class mingling at St. Barnabas Catholic School, but it didn't cancel photo day.

TORONTO — The Hockey Hall of Fame announced Friday there will be no new inductees in 2021, and the class of 2020 will be honoured in a ceremony that year instead. The 2020 inductees were scheduled to be inducted Nov.

TORONTO — Donald Trump called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “weak” and “dishonest” and attacked Canada's vital trade. He threatened tariffs on cars and imposed them on steel.

Canada's largest school board is trying to assure parents it can provide a safe, stable and successful learning environment during the pandemic as it deals with the fact that thousands of students have left its system.

Toronto police say a man is under arrest for a pair of alleged sexual assaults in the city's subway system. The first happened early Wednesday morning on a subway car. The second happened that afternoon on an escalator in a subway station.