Around Ontario

TORONTO — Ontario will soon end its temporary paid sick day program, The Canadian Press has learned.

TORONTO — It was a crazy start to the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Among the early upsets was 16th-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson shocking top-seeded Purdue 63-58 on Friday. What's even more stunning is the Boilermakers came in as 22.

UNITED NATION (AP) — The United Nations chief urged the first world conference on water in over 45 years on Wednesday to address the “21st century emergency” that is wasting the world’s most important resource and has left billions of people without

TORONTO — Ontario's budget is set to be tabled Thursday amid both surging revenues and a potential economic slowdown, and while the finance minister has been signalling "restraint," he says that doesn't mean program cuts.

OAKVILLE, Ont. — Ontario manufacturers would be able to get up to $2 million a year through a new tax credit the government is proposing in its upcoming budget.

TORONTO — An Ontario Liberal member of provincial parliament says she is planning to resign her seat in order to run in the Toronto mayoral race.

TORONTO — The Writers' Trust of Canada has announced a new $75,000 prize for international authors who have penned non-fiction works. The Weston International Award will honour a non-Canadian author's body of work.

Police in Ontario are warning that climate change is shortening the snowmobiling season and making a growing number of trails dangerous for riders across the province.

Toronto police say two men are facing charges in a daytime shooting at a mall parking lot that left one person dead.

OWEN SOUND, Ont. — The Sarnia Sting are getting hot at the right time of the Ontario Hockey League season.