TORONTO—Ontario's striking college faculty have voted to reject a contract offer and continue their nearly five-week job action.
The 12,000 college professors, instructors, counsellors, and librarians have been off the job since Oct. 15, leaving some 500,000 students out of class.
Ontario plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars over the next four years on a seniors' health-care plan that will increase the number of long-term care beds in the province and hours of care provided by staff.
Premier Kathleen Wynne made the announcement Tuesday, laying out the government's 20-point plan—called “Aging with Confidence”—to bolster services for seniors.
TORONTO—Ontario's colleges have asked striking faculty members to resume classes ahead of a vote on a final contract offer.
The College Employer Council, which represents the province's 24 colleges, said yesterday it had asked Ontario's Labour Relations Board to schedule the vote after bargaining talks broke down.
TORONTO—Ontario has named the first 14 cities where it will set up government-run marijuana stores by this July.
TORONTO—Negotiations were set to resume today in a colleges strike that has left 500,000 students out of class for more than two weeks.
More than 12,000 Ontario college professors, instructors, counsellors, and librarians went on strike Oct. 15.
TORONTO—Striking college faculty workers are calling on the Ontario government to pressure college administrators to return to the bargaining table in a labour dispute that's caused headaches for half a million students.
But the province said it has no current plans to intervene.
TORONTO—The Ontario government is spending $100 million to add hundreds of new beds to hospitals across the province to address the issue of overcrowded wards ahead of what's expected to be a bad 'flu season.
Health minister Eric Hoskins, who made the announcement yesterday, said adding the 1,200 beds is the equivalent of opening six medium-sized hospitals.
TORONTO—Millennials will have to foot the bill for Ontario's rising debt over the next three decades if the government doesn't hike taxes or cut spending by $6.5 billion annually to address major demographic changes, the province's fiscal watchdog warned last week.
TORONTO—Ontario will create safe zones around abortion clinics to protect women who seek their services and the health-care workers who perform them, Attorney General Yasir Naqvi said yesterday.
Naqvi said the zones, which will extend 50-150 metres around Ontario's eight abortion clinics, are designed to protect women who choose to access the services.
TORONTO—The risk of job losses due to a minimum wage increase could be significantly reduced if the Ontario government extended the policy phase-in period, says a new report from a coalition of businesses.
