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Advocates are raising concerns about temporary migrant workers not having timely access to information about Ontario's plan to offer them COVID-19 vaccines.

TORONTO — Education workers in some Ontario virus hot spots will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations next week, the government announced Wednesday, amid union calls for all education workers to get shots as a third wave of infections surges across

TORONTO — Ontario imposed a four-week stay-at-home order Wednesday and promised to start vaccinating young people in COVID-19 hot spots amid mounting criticism that the province is not doing enough to stop the spread of the virus.

A stay-at-home order will take effect across Ontario starting this Thursday at 12:01 a.m.

It took about eight seconds for police to smash in a door and kill a 62-year-old man in crisis in his own home. The family of Ejaz Choudry, a frail man with schizophrenia, say they never wanted, or asked, for police to be there on June 20, 2020.

MONTREAL — A 16-year-old patient has died from complications arising from COVID-19, a Montreal pediatric hospital confirmed Wednesday.

QUEBEC — A gym in Quebec City has now been linked to 419 cases of COVID-19 after staff and clients got infected and unknowingly carried the virus to grocery stores, homes, and workplaces, the regional health authority said Wednesday.

TORONTO — Dr. Daniel Drucker didn't expect his decades-worth of groundbreaking research on gut hormones to garner so much attention in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Students at schools in Toronto are taking classes fully online today following an order from the city's top doctor. The public health unit says the measure is necessary as new COVID-19 variants pose a greater risk of hospitalization and death.

MONTREAL — Less than two weeks after easing restrictions, Quebec is reversing its decision to reopen gyms and high schools in the greater Montreal area.