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'People need to talk about it': Ontario schools are implementing anti-sex trafficking policies

The Ministry of Education has made it mandatory for each school board in the province to develop an anti-sex trafficking protocol, effective Jan. 31.

A sign for the Upper Grand District School Board administration building is pictured on Monday, June 15, 2015.

'Magic cards can’t prevent charges’: Guelph police

A 23-year-old Guelph man has been charged with several counts of theft for stealing a total of $609 in Magic: The Gathering playing cards.

Cards for the game Magic: The Gathering are shown in this file photo. (shutterstock.com)

Licence plate left at crash scene helps lead to charges: Guelph police

Guelph police say a suspect who fled a hit-and-run crash was eventually charged after his licence plate was left at the scene.

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Ontario reports 68 more COVID-19 deaths as hospitalizations drop to 3,535

Ontario health officials reported 68 additional deaths related to COVID-19 while hospitalizations dropped again on Friday.

A paramedic adjusts his protective mask as he transfers a patient out of an ambulance to the emergency department at Michael Garron Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Monday, January 10, 2022. Ambulances have been in short supply in some regions through out the province of Ontario. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Ontario workers can use COVID-19 rapid test or medical note to make WSIB claims

Ontarians who suspect they caught COVID-19 at work can make claims with the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board even without a positive result from a PCR test now that the gold-standard assessment tool is no longer available to most residents.

FILE - An Abbott Laboratories Panbio COVID- 19 Rapid Test device is displayed at a pop-up COVID-19 testing site on the Dalhousie University campus in Halifax on Wednesday, Nov. 23 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan

Brant County OPP looking for missing woman

Brant Count OPP are asking the public’s help in locating 23-year-old Kyla Laswick.

Brant OPP searching for missing woman (Supplied/OPP)

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LIVE AT 11 A.M. | Here's what you need to know about the truck convoy moving into Ottawa today

Police are scheduled to hold a briefing at 11 a.m. ahead of a trucker convoy's arrival in downtown Ottawa. The convoy left Kingston just after 8:30 a.m. Friday.

Record-high gas prices expected for Ontario, Quebec

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'Couldn't believe what I was seeing': WRPS officer first to respond to A Better Tent City fire

Two housing units at A Better Tent City in Kitchener were damaged Thursday in a fire.

New policies being developed to protect historic Galt area

The City of Cambridge is working on new policies to both develop and protect the historic Galt area.

Ontarians will be allowed to eat at sporting events on Monday, will not need to provide contact information

Ontario has released more details about what individuals should expect when the province moves to the first step of the latest reopening plan.

One COVID-19 death reported in Waterloo Region; 144 in hospital

Health officials in the Region of Waterloo reported another death related to COVID-19 on Thursday as hospitalizations remained steady at 144.

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