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TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford pleaded with Ontario's "scared" migrant workers Wednesday to get tested for COVID-19, acknowledging that the current testing strategy has captured only a small slice of the migrant population in a region with several outbr

TORONTO — The Toronto Transit Commission's board voted Wednesday to make face coverings mandatory for all customers starting July 2.

TORONTO — The body that oversees the Toronto Police Service will consider recommendations to immediately bolster mental health services and gather community input on the police budget at a meeting this week in an effort to combat anti-Black racism wi

MONTREAL — Quebec's coroner's office has ordered a vast public inquiry into COVID-19 deaths at some of the province's long-term care homes, private seniors' residences and other accommodations for vulnerable people.

TORONTO — Medical experts from Toronto's SickKids Hospital say children in Ontario should be able to return to school in September, even though the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 likely won't be eradicated by then.

BURLINGTON, Ont. — Police say a shooting that left a 23-year-old man with serious injuries and prompted a shelter-in-place order in Burlington, Ont., appears to have been targeted. They say the incident happened at around 9 a.m.

TORONTO — Insurance companies have provided $685 million in relief to Ontario drivers using their cars less during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the province's finance minister says more should be done.

TORONTO — Ontario has passed legislation it says will protect farmers from animal rights activists who trespass on their property.

MARKHAM, Ont. — Police north of Toronto say they've charged a woman in a hit-and-run on Monday that left a cyclist dead. York Regional Police say they received a call at around 8:15 a.m.

Ottawa police say a two-year-old boy drowned Tuesday. Police say they were called to Petrie Island on the Ottawa River at 5:30 p.m. after receiving a report of a missing child.