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TORONTO — Ontario will infuse $500 million into corrections over the next five years as it hires hundreds of frontline staff and updates aging jails, the province announced Tuesday.

MONTREAL — Quebec plans to have all elementary and high school students back in the classroom this fall with a backup plan should the number of COVID-19 cases spike, the province's education minister said Tuesday.

Toronto police say a four-year-old child is uninjured after driving an SUV into several stop signs in the city's north end. Police say they received reports of several collisions in a big-box store parking lot in north Toronto shortly after 2 p.m.

Police north of Toronto are warning residents to keep an eye on their pets after the grisly discovery of four "disfigured" dead cats in a park. York regional police investigators have been out canvassing Belair Way Park in Vaughan, Ont.

TORONTO — The City of Windsor says it is expanding an isolation centre to help migrant workers who have tested positive for COVID-19.

TORONTO — Whistle while you work to help Ontario bounce back from the COVID-19 pandemic — but please, don't sing.

TORONTO — Every health unit in Ontario could soon be collecting race-based data on the COVID-19 pandemic after the provincial government announced Monday it would act on the advice of community leaders and public health experts who want the figures t

TORONTO — All regions of Ontario except for Toronto, Peel and Windsor-Essex will be in Stage 2 of the province's phased reopening plan as of Friday.

MONTREAL — Quebec will allow indoor public gatherings of up to 50 people beginning June 22, and is reducing the physical distancing requirement for children 16 years and under to one metre, the province's director of public health announced Monday.

TORONTO — Hundreds of thousands of front-line workers in Ontario are still waiting to receive a pandemic pay premium they were promised about two months ago.