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TORONTO — Jimmy Pudjunas sits in a sprawling homeless encampment at a downtown Toronto park strumming a guitar. It's the best he's felt in years, he says, but he's sombre this week as he thinks about where he might end up living in the near future.

TORONTO — Help for the struggling James Bay community of Kashechewan has been slow in coming, as COVID-19 infections surge through overcrowded homes and isolation facilities remain non-existent, Chief Leo Friday said on Wednesday.

TORONTO — Two people are facing charges after allegedly trying to break into an east-end Toronto mosque and threatening to blow it up when confronted by a staff member.

Hair salon owners are calling on Ontario to allow their industry to reopen, saying their establishments are safe and employ ample measures to guard against COVID-19. The province entered the first phase of a three-step reopening plan last Friday.

TORONTO — The secret ingredient to some long-lasting makeup looks could be toxins that pose long-term hazards to human and environmental health, suggests a new study by University of Toronto researchers.

Children, adults under 30 and people who are not vaccinated are driving a surge of COVID-19 cases in a northern Ontario region, the area's top doctor said Tuesday.

L'ORIGNAL, Ont. — An eastern Ontario doctor charged with first-degree murder after the death of a patient at a hospital has had his case adjourned for two weeks. Dr.

KINGSTON, Ont. — Dozens of academics want Queen's University to retract a statement defending employees anonymously accused of falsely claiming Indigenous identity.

The Ontario government has used the notwithstanding clause to restore parts of the Election Finances Act that had been declared unconstitutional.

TORONTO — Ontario's Progressive Conservatives employed a rarely used legislative power on Monday to pass a bill limiting third-party election advertising amid shouts of "shame" from the opposition.