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BURLINGTON, Ont. — Police say a shooting that left a 23-year-old man with serious injuries and prompted a shelter-in-place order in Burlington, Ont., appears to have been targeted. They say the incident happened at around 9 a.m.

TORONTO — Insurance companies have provided $685 million in relief to Ontario drivers using their cars less during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the province's finance minister says more should be done.

TORONTO — Ontario has passed legislation it says will protect farmers from animal rights activists who trespass on their property.

MARKHAM, Ont. — Police north of Toronto say they've charged a woman in a hit-and-run on Monday that left a cyclist dead. York Regional Police say they received a call at around 8:15 a.m.

Ottawa police say a two-year-old boy drowned Tuesday. Police say they were called to Petrie Island on the Ottawa River at 5:30 p.m. after receiving a report of a missing child.

TORONTO — A testing centre dedicated to assessing the impact of COVID-19 on migrant workers in and around Windsor, Ont.

TORONTO — Ontario will infuse $500 million into corrections over the next five years as it hires hundreds of frontline staff and updates aging jails, the province announced Tuesday.

MONTREAL — Quebec plans to have all elementary and high school students back in the classroom this fall with a backup plan should the number of COVID-19 cases spike, the province's education minister said Tuesday.

Toronto police say a four-year-old child is uninjured after driving an SUV into several stop signs in the city's north end. Police say they received reports of several collisions in a big-box store parking lot in north Toronto shortly after 2 p.m.

Police north of Toronto are warning residents to keep an eye on their pets after the grisly discovery of four "disfigured" dead cats in a park. York regional police investigators have been out canvassing Belair Way Park in Vaughan, Ont.