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Southwestern Ontario should brace for snow, ice and freezing rain on New Year’s Day. Environment Canada has issued freezing rain warnings for several cities and their surrounding areas, including Sarnia, London, Waterloo, Brant County and Stratford.

TORONTO — Ontario's finance minister resigned from his cabinet position Thursday, hours after returning from a Caribbean vacation amid a provincewide lockdown. Rod Phillips travelled to St. Barts on Dec.

TORONTO — Ontario's patient ombudsman has died in an accident, the government agency has confirmed. Cathy Fooks assumed her role on July 13, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The office of the patient ombudsman announced her death on Thursday.

TORONTO — Residents of Ontario long-term care homes began receiving COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday as the province reported a record high of new cases.

Police in Chatham-Kent say an officer has been reinstated to the force following his guilty plea to charges under the Police Services Act.

MONTREAL — Quebec exceeded the 200,000 COVID-19 case mark today after officials reported a record 2,819 new infections.

LONDON, Ont. — A London, Ont., hospital has declared itself free of COVID-19 outbreaks after 23 deaths and more than 150 infections. London Health Sciences Center says University Hospital is outbreak-free as of Dec. 30.

MONTREAL — Quebec's vaccine rollout is off to what may appear to be a slow start, but the province should still be able to meet its goal of vaccinating most citizens by the latter months of 2021, a supply-chain expert said Wednesday.

TORONTO — Ontario's premier acknowledged Wednesday that he made a mistake in allowing his finance minister to continue a vacation abroad over the holidays as experts warned the incident undermines the government's messaging regarding COVID-19 measure

Ontario will lay out the order and timeframe in which specific population groups will be immunized against COVID-19, possibly within the next few weeks. Dr.