Ottawa Street Santa Claus a welcome sight for shoppers.

Canadian Thomas O’Shaughnessy is on the golf course, under a sunny sky with the beautiful blue sea only steps away.

City reports eight new deaths in two days.

No new outbreaks were declared on Sunday.

COVID-19 fears spark increased interest in home births, midwives say

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

They decide which stores will have to shut down, who can stay open and under what conditions, who gets wage support, who gets loans, who gets bailed out, who is left to survive on their own.

With unusual candour, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo shared his two worst nightmares as a leader at the beginning of a health crisis. He was deeply worried that when he told New Yorkers that they had to submit to a very tough lockdown, that they would refuse. “What was I going to do then, arrest nineteen million people?!”

The emergence of safe and effective vaccines brings much-needed hope for the end of this pandemic. Or, as Winston Churchill once quipped in the midst of the great global catastrophe of his age, “perhaps the end of the beginning.”

The pandemic continues to create significant challenges such as job losses and food insecurity, and it is impacting the mental health of Canadians. The not-for-profit sector has been doing their best to protect those most vulnerable during this crisis, and to meet their individual needs.

Last week, Ontario’s Financial Accountability Officer came out with another report, this one finding $12 billion in COVID funds apparently unspent by the province. This latest report, which looked at the second quarter, follows on a previous first-quarter FAO report that found the province had $6.7 billion in unspent pandemic funds.

Quebec ticket holder wins Saturday night's $30 million Lotto 649 jackpot

Pandemic forced Trudeau back to centre stage, improved his political fortunes

Emotional Dr. Theresa Tam very thankful for speed of COVID-19 vaccine delivery

OTTAWA—Rookie cabinet minister Anita Anand fumed as the Conservative leader of the Opposition accused the Liberal government throughout the fall of signing bad deals that “put Canada at the back of the line” for COVID-19 vaccines.

Hospitals are reaching their limits as COVID-19 surges. Nurses are being asked to cancel time off during the holidays. Hamilton has gone into lockdown. And in long-term care homes, residents are dying, once again.

The Spectator has answers to questions about the latest COVID measures.

Police say boy was under water for at least 10 minutes before he was found.

Loblaws announced cases at two different Fortinos locations on Saturday

"It will have the footprint of two monster homes," says Jim MacLeod, vice-president Ancaster Village Heritage Community.

Quebec reporting 2,038 new COVID-19 infections, 44 deaths linked to virus

Ontario reports 2,357 new cases of COVID-19 and 27 new deaths

As of Saturday, there 974 active cases of the virus in Hamilton.

Maywood resident Bob Maton submits complaint to Integrity Commissioner to "restore" his reputation.

"We have a huge deficit of amenities on the mountain," said Ward 14 Coun. Terry Whitehead.

Cases are connected to real estate transactions involving former mortgage broker Dennis Khanna

A year of COVID-19 has reversed a decade of progress helping world's poor: Gould

‘We did everything we could to stay away from it and he got it in the hospital,’ said wife of cancer patient

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

HWDSB looking to re-engage with children that registered for school, but never showed up in the fall

The seven-year-old is fascinated by elevators, writes Jeff Mahoney; What present to get him without giving him the shaft?

Regina Haggo writes on Carnegie Gallery’s Christmas Market

Singh strives to carve out space for NDP as Tories, Liberals target his turf

A planned program at FirstOntario Centre would soon allow you to live your Canadian dream

Olivia didn’t improve at all, but it ended up costing the company, writes Ed Canning

More than 7,600 workers have contracted COVID-19 on the job, prompting thousands of workplace safety inspections across the province. But since the start of the pandemic, the Ministry of Labour has issued just two fines — one of them to a worker.

For some half a million people on any given day in the GTA, a big part of the daily grind boils down to one infamously infuriating three-digit number: 401.

A liquor licence suspension has been placed on Toronto’s Bar Karma, after it failed to comply with the Reopening Ontario Act.

‘Candidly, we’re not catching up,’ Coun. Brad Clark says

LOS ANGELES–They’re offering tens of thousands of dollars in cash, making their personal assistants pester doctors every day, and asking whether a five-figure donation to a hospital would help them jump the line.

Grace Villa long-term-care saw another death Friday, on the eve of Hamilton’s lockdown

As Ontario hunkers down, braced for more lockdowns, let us unleash the blame game.

Citing a “fierce urgency to act now,” Toronto’s public health chair is questioning the provincial government’s delay in announcing new COVID-19 lockdown measures.

An interim injunction filed by a Toronto evangelical church to exempt it from the province’s lockdown orders for religious services has been denied by the Ontario Superior Court.

Rules for fuels: Federal government publishes Clean Fuel Standard regulations

Hamilton East Kiwanis and Victoria Park aim to build at least 200 units

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Prosecution to give closing arguments in Toronto's van attack trial

Amber Alert issued for nine-month-old girl allegedly abducted in Ottawa

Ford calls emergency Friday meeting with health officials over hospitalizations