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Long-term care in Ontario is losing staff to other industries that, due to the pandemic, are hiring health-care workers for infection prevention and testing supports, a group representing more than 70 per cent of the province’s homes said Tuesday.

TORONTO — An all-boys private school in Toronto has temporarily moved all classes online after several students tested positive for COVID-19. Upper Canada College says there have been 10 cases of the illness in students in grades 4, 8 and 12.

MONTREAL — About 150 protesters gathered in Montreal's Parc-Extension borough Monday night for the annual anti-police brutality march.

TORONTO — The head of Ontario's COVID-19 vaccine task force will be leaving the job this month, ending a tenure that was marked by delays and confusion over the province's immunization effort.

TORONTO — Nearly 100,000 Ontarians aged 80 and older booked their COVID-19 vaccine appointments Monday despite technical issues with the online portal and long wait times to get through to the call centre. The online booking system - www.ontario.

An Amazon warehouse that was ordered to shut down last week due to a major COVID-19 outbreak is also being investigated for potential labour violations, the Ontario government said Monday.

MONTREAL — Quebec Premier Francois Legault hinted on Monday that he is considering pushing back the overnight curfew in the Montreal area because days are getting longer.

Toronto will have a total of six mass COVID-19 vaccination clinics operating by the first week of April. Mayor John Tory said Monday that the city is moving as fast as it can to administer vaccines to its residents.

Officials in Peel Region are sounding the alarm over what they describe as growing harassment and discrimination towards public employees.

The Canadian Mental Health Association is urging Ontario to prioritize the sector in its upcoming budget as a new poll suggests the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has eroded residents' already fragile emotional well-being.