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A University of Waterloo professor and two students who were attacked in a gender-studies class last year said Monday they live in perpetual vigilance as they grapple with the lingering fear of more violence.

TORONTO — Ontario is wrestling with delays and shortages of supplies needed for home and palliative care, with dying people unable to get sedatives and patients going to hospital because their supplies have run out, the province's doctors say.

TORONTO — Ontario tabled its first bill of the fall legislative sitting on Monday, in a bid to give the province veto power over some bike lanes, accelerate highway construction projects and ease environmental assessments for new highways.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government is appointing former federal Liberal health minister Jane Philpott to a new role overseeing attempts to connect every Ontarian to primary care within the next five years.

MARKHAM, Ont. — Police say they're seeking at least one suspect after a man was shot and killed in his driveway in Markham, Ont. Investigators say they were called just after 6:30 p.m.

TORONTO — Toronto police say they've arrested a woman wanted in a fatal shooting last month. The shooting took place the morning of Sept. 1 in the midtown area. Police say they found a 37-year-old from Brampton, Ont., with gunshot wounds.

TORONTO — Ontario's legislature will resume sitting Monday after an unusually long summer break, and returns in the midst of intense speculation that Premier Doug Ford will call an early election.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Police say a woman has died and three other people are hurt after a shooting at a plaza in Brampton, Ont.

The union representing faculty at Ontario's 24 public colleges says its members have delivered a strong strike mandate.

Ontario Big City Mayors are asking the province to review mental-health laws and whether to expand the scope of involuntary treatment for people who are addicted to drugs and live on the streets.