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Ontario Premier Doug Ford plans to call a snap election Wednesday, seeking an even larger majority than his current government holds and using the threat of 25 per cent tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump as a justification.

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TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford plans to call a snap election next Wednesday and send Ontarians to the polls on Feb. 27, The Canadian Press has learned.

TORONTO — Health Canada has received more units of the rabies vaccine and expects they will be distributed by the end of the month as Toronto continues to ration its doses amid a shortage.

TORONTO — Ontario has reached a tentative deal with more than 600 professional engineers and land surveyors who have been withdrawing their services from key infrastructure projects as part of a labour dispute.

Toronto police say they've made 14 more arrests and have laid more than a hundred charges in an investigation into a gunfight last November, while officers continue to search for more suspects.

TORONTO — Temporary relief has washed over users of Toronto's original supervised consumption site after learning the place will not close when the building's lease expires in the spring, though its long-term prospects are bleak.

York Regional Police are searching for at least three suspects after an alleged armed home invasion northwest of Toronto left a woman injured and one of her dogs dead. Police say they responded to a report of a woman shot at a home in Nobleton, Ont.

One of Ontario's largest colleges is suspending dozens of its full-time programs as the federal government reduces the number of international students in Canada.

TORONTO — Police allege a person who reported that their dog had been stabbed by a man in a Toronto park on Tuesday was in fact responsible for hurting the animal.