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Quebec is reporting 1,009 new cases of COVID-19 today as well as 26 more deaths attributed to the virus. Authorities say only five of those deaths occurred within the past 24 hours, with most from between Oct. 17 and Oct. 22.

Two drivers are dead after a collision on a bridge involving three vehicles in Val-d'Or, Que., Que, on Saturday morning.

MONTREAL — Police say a 50-year-old man was shot and wounded in a residential neighbourhood of Laval, Que., on Friday night Authorities received a call around 8 p.m. concerning an incident on Place de Fagnolle in the city's Vimont neighbourhood.

TORONTO — Ontario Provincial Police are trying to determine whether a possible road rage incident was a factor in a fatal accident Friday evening in Toronto.

TORONTO — Ontario is considering imposing stricter COVID-19 restrictions on at least one more Toronto-area region where daily new cases have been on the rise, Premier Doug Ford said Friday.

Ontario's premier is calling for demonstrators in an Indigenous land dispute to engage in peaceful talks with his government, saying on Friday that violence by protesters near Caledonia, Ont., won't be tolerated.

MONTREAL — Rising COVID-19 cases in the Quebec City area risk causing a service breakdown in the local health-care network, Quebec's deputy premier warned Friday.

TORONTO — Sunnybrook Hospital has joined a growing list of hospitals in Toronto that have declared outbreaks of COVID-19. Five cases have been identified in a surgical unit at the hospital, a spokesman for Sunnybrook said Friday.

Critical staffing shortages in Ontario's long-term care homes should be urgently addressed as the second wave of the pandemic intensifies, an independent commission said in interim recommendations released Friday.

Ontario's premier insisted Thursday that a prominent social conservative wasn't getting special treatment while trying to turn a Christian college into a university, but critics said it was clear Doug Ford was using new legislation to reward one of h