Ontario News

MONTREAL — Quebec's Independent Investigations Bureau says it's launching a probe after a man was seriously injured while in custody of Quebec City police. The Bureau says the man was found unconscious in a police cell shortly after 1 p.m. today.

TORONTO — Ontario recorded more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 for the second time in a week on Saturday, days after politicians and health officials indicated provincial case loads were beginning to ease.

MONTREAL — Quebec is reporting 1,064 new cases of COVID-19 today and 15 additional deaths linked to the virus.

BRADFORD, Ont. — Police say the body of what appears to be a missing teen from Bradford, Ont., has been found in a pond. South Simcoe Police say 15-year-old Siem Zerezghi has been missing since Oct. 24.

MONTREAL — The recent killing of a Black Montrealer who authorities said was "in crisis" raises questions about how police approach racialized people and those with mental health problems, according to the head of an anti-racism group.

MONTREAL — Quebec food-processing company Olymel says it doesn't plan to close either of its two plants in the province dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks. A hog-slaughter facility in Princeville, Que.

More than 30 cases of COVID-19 have been linked to a southwestern Ontario church, forcing hundreds of people into self-isolation, public health officials said Friday.

TORONTO — A plan to ease COVID-19 restrictions in the province's hot spots is coming next week, Premier Doug Ford said Friday, indicating he's asked health advisors for a strategy to allow shuttered businesses to safely reopen.

TORONTO — Ontario's hospitals say they are facing "unprecedented" financial pressures and many of them have been forced to use lines of credit to cover COVID-19-related costs.

Many of the personal support workers who left Ontario's long-term care system in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic due to poor pay and lack of full-time jobs have not returned, an independent commission has heard.