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TORONTO — Health Minister Christine Elliott says the first shipment of an antiviral COVID-19 treatment has arrived in Ontario. The oral antiviral drug Paxlovid is meant to protect against hospitalization and death.

TORONTO — The Ontario government says a new elementary school slated to be built in a downtown Toronto condo building will be the first of its kind in the province.

Police say a Toronto-area constable who was the focus of an undercover corruption probe has been sentenced to 7.5 years behind bars. Const.

TORONTO — A 13-year-old boy has been charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of another teenager, Toronto police said Friday.

TORONTO — Ontario municipalities with public transit systems are receiving an additional $120 million in funding this year. The Ontario government provides those communities with two cents per litre of the provincial gas tax revenue it collects.

OSHAWA, Ont. — A judge is set to give his decision today in the case of a man accused of murdering a woman and two of her children east of Toronto.

The mother of three boys who died after a Brampton, Ont., fire returned home from taking a younger child to school to find the house up in flames, police say.

The head of a public health unit in southern Ontario will go ahead with stronger COVID-19 measures in local schools, despite censure from the province's top doctor over breaking from the provincial approach.

TORONTO — Ontario will soon begin easing COVID-19 restrictions, starting by reopening businesses such as restaurants, gyms and cinemas with capacity limits and boosting the size of social gatherings – all with an eye to lifting nearly all constraints

High schoolers across Ontario are lobbying their school boards and the province for a "freeze" on grades for the remainder of this Omicron-interrupted semester after some boards said final marks wouldn't fall further than where they were at the end o