The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Thursday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.

Ontario could soon be headed into a third lockdown to rein in a third wave of COVID-19 driven largely by variants of concern, new projections show.

It has been nearly 10 years since Chad Everets, 20, of Port Hope, was killed in an unsolved hit-and-run collision in Port Dover.

Twitter to launch engineering hub in Canada with dozens of hires this year

Note to readers: Post Mortem was a true crime series written by reporter Jon Wells that ran in The Hamilton Spectator in February and March 2006, detailing the investigation into the murder of a woman whose bludgeoned body was left in a field near A

Note to readers: Post Mortem was a true crime series written by reporter Jon Wells that ran in The Hamilton Spectator in February and March 2006, detailing the investigation into the murder of a woman whose bludgeoned body was left in a field near A

Note to readers: Post Mortem was a true crime series written by reporter Jon Wells that ran in The Hamilton Spectator in February and March 2006, detailing the investigation into the murder of a woman whose bludgeoned body was left in a field near A

Note to readers: Post Mortem was a true crime series written by reporter Jon Wells that ran in The Hamilton Spectator in February and March 2006, detailing the investigation into the murder of a woman whose bludgeoned body was left in a field near A

Note to readers: Post Mortem was a true crime series written by reporter Jon Wells that ran in The Hamilton Spectator in February and March 2006, detailing the investigation into the murder of a woman whose bludgeoned body was left in a field near A

Note to readers: Post Mortem was a true crime series written by reporter Jon Wells that ran in The Hamilton Spectator in February and March 2006, detailing the investigation into the murder of a woman whose bludgeoned body was left in a field near A

Note to readers: Post Mortem was a true crime series written by reporter Jon Wells that ran in The Hamilton Spectator in February and March 2006, detailing the investigation into the murder of a woman whose bludgeoned body was left in a field near A

Note to readers: Post Mortem was a true crime series written by reporter Jon Wells that ran in The Hamilton Spectator in February and March 2006, detailing the investigation into the murder of a woman whose bludgeoned body was left in a field near A

Eventually, this time will be a memory, like everything else. Canada will start swimming in vaccines starting in April; the arguments will fade into summer. As someone once said, throw enough vaccine at a problem, it doesn’t matter how badly you actually do it.

Updated Quebec COVID-19 health orders to be shaped by variant fears: health minister

City reports 43 cases as virus spread at the Barton Street jail and the Salvation Army Booth Centre shelter

Hold the Slurpees. Bring on the suds.

Canada Post failed to accurately report a massive COVID-19 outbreak at its Mississauga plant that saw more than 300 workers test positive for the virus, according to a federal directive obtained by the Star.

Most actively traded companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange

‘It would be prudent set aside some funds,” finance boss Mike Zegarac tells council

Investor frenzy accelerates Canada stock market activity in February, says TMX

Ontario reports 958 new COVID-19 cases, 17 more deaths

Toronto officials recommend moving city to 'grey-lockdown zone' next week

S&P/TSX composite down in early trading, U.S. stock markets mixed

Ontario is promising to accelerate its COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan after a national advisory panel decision Wednesday to support the delay of second doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine.

Northern Ontario health units on alert amid rising COVID-19 infections

School board trustees discussed the possibility of bringing in an integrity commissioner to handle code of conduct complaints against board trustees.

February auto sales down from year ago due to lockdowns and supply chain disruptions

Toronto officials recommend moving city to 'grey-lockdown zone' next week

Five high schools unite to perform Peter Meechan’s 2012 ‘I.S.S. (International Space Station) Flyover,’ writes Leonard Turnevicius

Really Living Seventh-day Adventist Church is helping Hamiltonians struggling to put food on the table by offering to deliver a free bag of groceries.

Minassian decision opens door for verdict of not criminally responsible due to autism

Data aligns with some nationwide consumer trends.

Top doc defends move in light of new COVID-19 variants

Fed survey finds modest gains in the US economy in February

Ontario reports 958 new COVID-19 cases, 17 more deaths

Verdict expected today in Toronto van attack trial

CRA says 'rare' error in some tax slips lists repaid CERB as taxable

Applications for the total $126,500 prize close on April 2.

Fed survey finds modest gains in the US economy in February

Updated Quebec COVID-19 health orders to be shaped by variant fears: health minister

Greater Toronto housing on fire in February as average price surpassed $1 million

FirstOntario Credit Union is launching its ninth annual 1Awards competition after a one-year hiatus.

CBS All Access rebrands as Paramount Plus in Canada, but it's a name change only

Ontarians aged 60-64 will get the AstraZeneca vaccine not cleared for adults over 65, but questions remain about how it will get into arms on time with a provincial appointment-booking portal not opening until March 15 and more than half the first shipment expiring April 2.

OTTAWA—The federal government expects to spend $15 billion to extend its emergency rent and wage subsidies from mid-March till June, as Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland defends the Liberal administration’s massive spending push over the past year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.

Workplace inspections focus of Ontario's COVID-19 update by Labour Minister Monte McNaughton

Toronto police charge member of cadet program in alleged sex assault

Staff sick days at Hamilton’s public school board jumped by more than a quarter in the first five months of the current school year, an increase attributed to COVID-19 precautions and delays in seeing a doctor.

S&P/TSX composite down in early trading, U.S. stock markets mixed

Sweet joins with York Centre Independent MPP Roman Barber to urge the premier to eliminate the COVID-19 lockdown measures.