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TORONTO — Ontario has reported its first case of a COVID-19 variant that emerged in South Africa last year, with the province's top doctor saying more such infections are expected to be found in the future. Dr.

Two men are facing charges after police say a church in Aylmer, Ont., held an in-person service this weekend, in violation of provincial pandemic rules.

Provincial police say human remains have been found at the scene of a fire in Brighton, Ont. Investigators say the blaze was reported in the early hours of Friday morning.

Toronto police are investigating after they say a man was shot dead in his car in the city's North York area.

Two Toronto-area retirement homes imposed restrictions on visitors coming from an Ontario region at the centre of a more potent COVID-19 outbreak over the weekend as officials in another district said the more contagious U.K.

Toronto Public Health is alerting the public to a sobering new single-day high for overdose calls, which comes on the heels of a tragic month for fatal overdoses in the city.

MONTREAL — Quebec's health minister says the province will gradually resume some of the surgeries that have been delayed due to COVID-19 as the number of people hospitalized with the virus continues to drop.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Police say a Brampton, Ont., man is facing a murder charge in the alleged killing of his mother.

JOLIETTE — Quebec provincial police are investigating after a couple in their 60s died in a house fire northeast of Montreal on Saturday.

MONTREAL — Quebec residents will have to wait until Tuesday to learn of pending changes to the government's latest COVID-19 public health protocols, the province's premier announced as he cautioned the current rules would remain in place for at least