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TORONTO — Ontario hospitals have been warned to ready themselves for patient transfers from outside their regions as rising COVID-19 admissions place increasing pressure on the health-care system.

SUDBURY, Ont. — Police in Sudbury, Ont., say they’ve charged a suspect in a December homicide. The Greater Sudbury Police service says the 40-year-old woman is accused of second-degree murder.

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — A physician who travelled internationally over the holidays against public health advice is out of his job as CEO of two Ontario hospitals. The St. Joseph's Health System says it has "parted ways" with Dr.

TORONTO — Three Toronto hospitals say they've had early success with their virtual emergency departments and hope that the service introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic is here to stay. Two hospitals — Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and St.

Ontario faced a shortage of personal protective equipment at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in part because it did not replenish its stockpiles over the previous years, an independent commission examining the impact of the health crisis on long-t

A police force west of Toronto must pay tens of thousands of dollars in damages years after officers handcuffed a six-year-old Black girl at her school and held her on her stomach for nearly a half hour, a human rights tribunal has ruled.

MONTREAL — Quebec's public security minister said she doesn't expect the province's upcoming curfew to have a major impact on people who are following the rules.

TORONTO — A long-term care home in Toronto hit 73 COVID-19 deaths on Thursday after two more residents succumbed to the virus. Tendercare Living Centre in the city's east end now has one of the worst records in the province.

TORONTO — All schools in southern Ontario will remain closed for in-person learning until Jan. 25, a move the government said was needed to protect students and staff from surging rates of COVID-19.

SIOUX LOOKOUT, Ont. — As medical interpreter Tom Chapman received his COVID-19 vaccination on Thursday, 85-year-old patient Eunice Fiddler told him in Ojicree: "Don't cry." Fiddler was the first person at the William A.