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Toronto residents aged 80 and older will be able to book appointments for COVID-19 vaccinations at the city's mass immunization sites starting Friday.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford defended his government's use of a controversial land planning tool on Wednesday amid mounting concerns it was being used to green-light developments without proper environmental consultations.

The federal government will spend more than $40 million of carbon tax revenue to make Ontario schools more energy efficient, the environment minister announced Wednesday.

MONTREAL — Quebec's auditor general says it's too early to say whether the government has taken advantage of the pandemic to spend lavishly, but she says her office has identified nine areas of concern.

TORONTO — Ontario will give municipalities and Indigenous communities $255 million to fight COVID-19 outbreaks in homeless shelters.

Indigenous leaders are condemning what they describe as the sudden closure of several youth justice centres in northern Ontario, saying children and staff were traumatized after they were transferred to more distant facilities without proper notice.

TORONTO — Health Canada has approved two more rapid tests that can indicate the prevalence of COVID-19 immunity, devices experts say should be used judiciously but can help ensure the success of vaccines.

BAYFIELD, Ont. — An Amber Alert has been cancelled after a missing girl was found safe. Provincial police originally issued the alert on Wednesday morning, less than five hours after the seven-year-old was last seen in Bayfield, Ont.

TORONTO — Ontario's primary care doctors are still awaiting specifics on how they will help administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, a group representing the physicians said Tuesday as the first batches of the recently approved shot arrived in the

MONTREAL — Quebec is ready to increase the pace of its vaccination campaign and could soon begin vaccinating people 65 and older in the Montreal area, Health Minister Christian Dube said Tuesday.