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Ontario's regional public health officials are asking the government to prioritize opening schools before lifting other public health restrictions aimed at reducing high levels COVID-19 infection and hospitalizations across the province.

The pandemic is forcing the country’s famous furry forecasters to take their festivities online.

Police in Guelph, Ont., say a 26-year-old local man is dead after his car collided head-on with a dump truck. The accident happened late Friday afternoon on Stone Road East.

Toronto police are investigating a shooting Friday night that left a man dead and woman with life-threatening wounds. Duty Inspector Kathy Stevenson said police responded to multiple calls about shots fired around 8 p.m.

TORONTO — Ontario plans to bring rapid COVID-19 testing to its schools but online learning in some regions may need to continue until that measure can be implemented, the province's top doctor said Friday. Dr.

MONTREAL — Quebec is ramping up its ability to identify COVID-19 variants as health officials reported Friday that eight cases of the more transmissible U.K. variant have been identified in the province.

TORONTO — A raging fire that ripped through an east-Toronto home killed four people, injured several others and left area residents struggling to come to terms with the deaths of their neighbours on Friday. The blaze began around 4:30 a.m.

A children's hospital in Ottawa says it's seen more than double the usual number of babies needing treatment for head injuries and fractures since September.

A fire that claimed the lives of four people and injured several others in east-end Toronto early Friday is shining a spotlight on issues of fire safety. As of Jan.

TORONTO — Cases of COVID-19 are decreasing across Ontario but the spread of a more contagious variant presents a "significant threat" to controlling the pandemic, the province's health advisors said Thursday. The variant – first identified in the U.