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  BREAKING | Ontario releases plan to stabilize health-care system amid bed and staffing shortages

  The next phase of Ontario's 'Plan to Stay Open' involves transferring of seniors from hospital to alternative long-term care homes, the hiring of thousands of health-care workers and a pledge to reduce surgical backlog.

  

• Sunflower blooms abound in Hawkestone

  Fairty has a three-generation green thumb inherited from her grandfather, who ran a sod farm in Markham.

  

• Wild food on the menu at this year's CNE

  The CNE returns this Friday in full force and with it, a slate of carnival-worthy foods sure to shock and amaze your taste buds. Here’s a rundown of some of the offerings this year:

• Driver charged with towing unsafe load walks home: OPP

  A driver near Orangeville had to leave his truck and walk home after police said he was stopped for towing an unsafe load.

• Police investigate suspicious package found at Simcoe County hospital

  Police were called to the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care Wednesday afternoon to inspect a questionable package found by a staff member at the Church Street facility.

• Wanted man known to frequent Midland area

  Provincial police ask the public to keep an eye out for a Rama First Nation man known to frequent the Midland area.

• Mark Wahlberg visits Collingwood, Ont. gym

  The Town of Collingwood was buzzing after celebrity Mark Wahlberg visited the area over the weekend.

• Barrie, Ont. nurse takes unpaid leave to help those in Ukraine

  MacLeod, a 25-year-old registered nurse from Barrie, with the full support of her husband, decided to take unpaid leave to travel to Poland with Canadian Medical Assistance Teams.

• OPP in Muskoka investigating multiple reports of thefts from unlocked vehicles

  Lock it or lose it, police in Gravenhurst warn as they investigate "multiple reports of thefts from unlocked vehicles" in the past two weeks.

• SIU clears OPP officer in Oro-Medonte fatal rollover

  An OPP officer has been cleared of wrongdoing in connection with the death of a man who crashed a stolen police cruiser into a ditch in Oro-Medonte.

• Seven fire crews battle house fire in Clearview

  Fire crews from Clearview Township were called to a house fire Wednesday morning.

• New report aims to tackle Simcoe Muskoka's alarming opioid crisis

  In the last two years, health experts report a spike in hospital visits from opioid abuse and a 25 per cent increase in opioid-related deaths across Simcoe Muskoka.

• Ontario to reveal next steps of 'Plan to Stay Open' Thursday, hints at changing 'status quo'

  The Ontario government will reveal the next steps of its “Plan to Stay Open” on Thursday.

• Diesel spill in Barrie's Kempenfelt Bay under investigation

  The City of Barrie is monitoring the pond between the Tiffin Boat Launch and Southshore Centre after a diesel spill over the weekend.