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TORONTO — Ontario health officials are in discussions about the second stage of the province's economic reopening plan, and Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday he hopes to bring it forward over the next week.

Advocates and legal experts are raising concerns about potential privacy violations in the emergency orders the Ontario government has implemented to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

TORONTO — Ontario officials have launched four separate probes into the long-term care system amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen more than 1,600 residents die and the military and hospitals called in to get outbreaks under control.

MONTREAL — A municipality on the island of Montreal is boasting that it has become the first jurisdiction in Canada to make wearing a mask mandatory for anyone entering a business or a city-owned building.

TORONTO — The number of COVID-19 cases at a farm in southwestern Ontario has nearly doubled in a matter of days, local authorities said Tuesday, as the province's chief coroner's office said it would investigate the death of a migrant worker from the

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Canada doesn't have the "systemic, deep roots" of racism that the United States does. Ford was asked today to comment on the protests in cities across the U.S.

A Toronto police officer has been charged with sexual assault in Halton Region. Halton Regional police's child abuse sexual assault unit says the 53-year-old male officer was arrested and charged Monday.

ESPANOLA, Ont. — Ontario provincial police are investigating after two people were found dead in Espanola, west of Sudbury.

MONTREAL — Quebec announced a plan to relaunch its cultural sector Monday, as the province recorded the lowest number of COVID-19 deaths over a 24-hour period in almost two months.

NORFOLK COUNTY, Ont. — Premier Doug Ford pledged Monday to ramp up testing for thousands of migrant workers across Ontario after a number of new farm outbreaks were reported in recent days.