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TORONTO — The higher-than-expected interest in online learning for the coming school year means Canada's largest school board will be able to keep class sizes relatively low, the organization said Thursday.

TORONTO — Ontario reported 132 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, with the bulk of the new diagnoses concentrated in the Greater Toronto Area.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Police west of Toronto have issued a new arrest warrant for a suspect wanted in connection with the death of 17-year-old Jonathan Davis, who was one of six people shot outside a Mississauga, Ont., apartment building last year.

TORONTO — The federal and Ontario governments have agreed to a one-year, $147-million extension of child-care funding to help offset costs related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Police in Thunder Bay, Ont., say a post-mortem has been completed in the death of a 31-year-old man that's considered a homicide.

TORONTO — One person has died and several others are injured after a boat crashed into some rocks near a Toronto beach. Police say a call came in at around 12:40 p.m.

TORONTO — The ongoing pandemic has put masks and sanitizers on back-to-school shopping lists, but several parents, teachers and school staff are hunting for even more unusual materials: cut logs for the schoolyard, tarps to shield soccer pitches from

MONTREAL — The Quebec government will reconsider keeping bars open if the province continues to see an upward trend of new daily COVID-19 cases, Premier Francois Legault said Thursday.

TORONTO — The leaders of the two provinces hit hardest by COVID-19 are due to meet during a two-day summit next week to discuss how they can work together to rebuild their economies while preparing for a possible second wave of the coronavirus.

The amount of clean electricity wasted in Ontario is expected to increase significantly this year as a result of the changes in energy consumption brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the association representing the province's engineers