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TORONTO — Residents of Canada's largest city will be able to eat inside a restaurant, visit a museum and attend some sporting events starting Friday as Toronto joins most of Ontario in Stage 3 of the province's COVID-19 recovery plan.

LAVAL, Que. — A teenager is dead and another person is injured following an overnight shooting in Montreal's northern suburb of Laval. Several neighbours reported hearing gunshots around midnight near a schoolyard in the Vimont district.

TORONTO — Ontario's pediatric hospitals have updated their recommendations for a safe return to school full-time, offering guidelines on the logistical challenges facing educators this fall.

TORONTO — Food insecurity is soaring as a result of COVID-19, leading to a major spike in new food bank clients since the pandemic began, according to a report by a Toronto-based charity.

MONTREAL — The number of temporary Canadian Red Cross-trained workers needed in Quebec's long-term care homes is short of the 900 that were expected to replace departing Canadian military personnel.

TORONTO — Ontario's child welfare system will be redesigned to focus on prevention and early intervention, the provincial government said Wednesday.

Toronto city council has voted to enact a new bylaw making face coverings mandatory in all apartment and condo building common areas.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford declined to say Wednesday whether the province's newly launched commission into the effects of COVID-19 on the long-term care system would be empowered to make binding recommendations, prompting critics to question

TORONTO — Canada's largest university is defending its decision to hold some of its fall course offerings in person this September, despite mounting pushback from faculty members and students.

MONTREAL — The Canadian Association of Journalists is condemning harassment and intimidation of journalists covering anti-mask protests in Montreal and Quebec City last weekend.