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MONTREAL — Quebec's health minister threatened owners of bars and other venues across the province on Monday, saying he won't hesitate to shut them down if COVID-19 public health directives are not followed.

TORONTO — Ontarians could face property tax increases and service cuts if upper levels of government don't provide immediate financial support to municipalities coping with massive pandemic-related costs, leaders of the province's largest cities and

TORONTO — Physical distancing was impossible to maintain in often-overbooked courtrooms across Ontario on Monday, lawyers said as some provincial court proceedings resumed after shuttering for months because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

TORONTO — A group of advocates for the homeless is taking the City of Toronto back to court for allegedly not keeping its end of a deal to ensure the health and safety of shelter residents and those living on the street.

TORONTO — Ontario says it will end streaming in Grade 9, a practice critics have called discriminatory towards racialized students.

MONTREAL — Quebec reported eight additional deaths due to COVID-19 on Sunday as health officials south of Montreal probed a cluster of positive cases stemming from a local bar.

RAINY RIVER, Ont. — Two Americans have been charged for violating the Federal Quarantine Act. On June 24, a 66-year-old man and a 65-year-old woman from Minnesota entered Canada at the border connecting International Falls, Minn.

TORONTO — Andrea Moffat can't decide what will be worse for her five-year-old son in September — keeping him at home or allowing him to make a partial return to school.

OTTAWA — Police continue to search for a teenaged boy who jumped off a bridge into the Ottawa River on Friday.

TAY TOWNSHIP, Ont. — Three people, including a seven-year-old child, are in hospital with serious burns after a propane cylinder exploded at a campfire Saturday. Ontario Provincial Police received the call just before 10:30 p.m.