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MONTREAL — Quebec provincial police say a 59-year-old man has been arrested in relation to an alleged double homicide that took place Saturday in Montreal.

PLYMPTON-WYOMING, Ont. — One person is dead after an early-morning crash in southwestern Ontario. Provincial Police say the collision happened at approximately 7:45 a.m. in Lambton Countty.

TORONTO — Soaring COVID-19 case numbers in Ontario's most populous city prompted local authorities to scale back their contact tracing efforts on Saturday as tightened public health restrictions took effect in some of the province's other hardest-hit

TORONTO — A major Ontario youth hockey organization has suspended its activities for the rest of the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Greater Toronto Hockey League says it's pausing all official activities until at least Jan.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A man who travelled from Central Africa to western Newfoundland has died while in self isolation after being diagnosed as the province's latest case of COVID-19.

QUEBEC — For the second day in a row, Quebec is reporting more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19. The province says 1,107 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases in the province to 77,380.

Toronto police are investigating a deadly shooting on the city's northwest side. It happened just after 5 a.m. at a building in the North York area. Police say three people were shot and two men were spotted fleeing the scene.

TORONTO — Ontario announced tighter COVID-19 restrictions Friday amid mounting criticism that the government was ill-prepared for a second wave of the pandemic, which has seen crippling lines at assessment centres, a ballooning testing backlog, and a

TORONTO — Ontario's largest school board is gearing up for thousands of elementary students to switch between online and in-class learning in a matter of weeks.

TORONTO — The Ontario government announced Friday a slate of new measures meant to stem a surge in COVID-19 cases in the province.