Ontario News

MONTREAL — Quebec Premier Francois Legault is calling on physicians to move from hospitals and clinics to shortstaffed long-term care homes to address the COVID-19 crisis.

The dean of Concordia University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences has been appointed president of Ontario's proposed French-language university. The school's board of directors says Andre Roy will take on his new role on Aug. 1.

Montreal is rolling out its annual public bicycle-sharing service and offering 30 days free for health-care workers.

Ontario's wildlife will likely experience a population boom thanks to an ongoing state of emergency that is keeping most people in the province at home, a pair of experts say.

TORONTO — Ontario extended its state of emergency for another four weeks on Tuesday, as Premier Doug Ford pledged to move more resources to the province's hard-hit long-term care homes.

TORONTO — At least 30 people using homeless and refugee shelters in Toronto have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said Tuesday.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government is looking for reinforcements in its fight against COVID-19 in the province's understaffed long-term care homes.

TORONTO — Ontario will extend its state of emergency by another month, Premier Doug Ford said Monday as he cautioned that even with some promising signs in the province's COVID-19 fight, it is too early to start lifting restrictions.

TORONTO — Nadine Parker couldn't have guessed that she'd be writing her will at the age of 32. But four months pregnant with identical twins and married to a nurse, Parker said the growing COVID-19 pandemic has them both confronting their mortality.

TORONTO — Ridership on two of Ontario's largest transit agencies is down between 80 and 90 per cent since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, in a situation a national industry group said mirrors the experience of many local services.