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TORONTO — The news that a tiger tested positive for COVID-19 at the Bronx Zoo in New York dropped like a bomb at the Toronto Zoo. Staff traded messages after news broke Sunday night.

TORONTO — Ontario put out a wartime-like plea Tuesday to press anyone in the province with health-care experience into service, as the first Ontario-made personal protective equipment rolled off the lines following a similar call to action to busines

MONTREAL — Premier Francois Legault announced Tuesday that he was diverting health-care workers from Quebec's hospitals to serve in the province's hard-hit seniors' residences, as one long-term care home north of Montreal reported more than 100 cases

TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford said late Monday he was pleased a U.S. manufacturer of medical equipment had reached a deal with the White House to continue sending desperately needed masks and respirators to Canada.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Ontario's Special Investigations Unit is investigating a fatal shooting Monday in Brampton. A 26-year-old man was killed after Peel Regional Police officers responded to a domestic situation.

A military hospital is needed in a remote Ontario Indigenous community now that the COVID-19 pandemic has reached the area, the chief of the First Nation said Monday.

MONTREAL — A 25-year-old Quebec man appeared in court Monday in connection with a brutal assault against a Walmart security guard who was enforcing the store's COVID-19 public health directives.

TORONTO — Students across Ontario began online learning Monday as Premier Doug Ford's government pledged that financial support for parents would arrive as soon as this week.

Quebec's premier and its chief medical officer sounded cautiously optimistic on Monday about the province's battle against COVID-19.

TORONTO — With donation bins overflowing and in some cases surrounded by illegally dumped garbage, Diabetes Canada has issued an open letter to community leaders and elected officials to help raise awareness about the issue.