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TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford said Monday he would not "touch" a protected stretch of land surrounding the Greater Toronto Area, pushing back against criticism over mass resignations at a conservation authority.

TORONTO — Police have arrested and charged a man after an investigation into reports of nooses found at a hospital construction site in Toronto. Toronto police say workers found two nooses when they arrived at the site in June.

KITCHENER, Ont. — The president of a hospital in Waterloo region says all three hospitals in the area are currently experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak, leading to a concern about the facilities' ability to maintain services.

TORONTO — Tighter public health restrictions come into effect in three Ontario regions today in a bid to stem the spread of COVID-19.

Half of the remaining members of Ontario's Greenbelt Council have followed their former chairman's lead by stepping down in protest of pending environmental reforms.

MONTREAL — Scaled-back ceremonies and pandemic-muted tributes did little to mask the raw emotion of those who gathered on Sunday to commemorate the 31st anniversary of a misogyny-motivated shooting at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique Survivors and acti

Ontario endured another tough weekend as the number of new COVID-19 cases climbed to record-setting new heights twice in as many days.

A former Conservative federal cabinet minister and Toronto mayor has stepped down as head of Ontario's Greenbelt Council in protest over proposed rules he says would gut environmental protections in the province.

MONTREAL — Quebec is reporting 1,691 new cases of COVID-19 today and 24 additional deaths linked to the virus. Public health officials say 10 of those deaths took place in the past 24 hours.

Mental health researchers are sounding the alarm over a growing body of data suggesting that dementia patients in Ontario are increasingly being assigned to scarce health-care beds ostensibly reserved for psychiatric patients.