Premier Doug Ford's cabinet met Friday to discuss next steps in fighting the pandemic as new cases fell short of the previous day's record of 1,575 but the seven-day moving average hit another high and hospitalizations increased more than usual.
The Ontario Provincial Police anti-rackets squad is investigating a Ministry of Education employee after tens of thousands of dollars was pilfered from COVID-19 relief funds for families.
The online reservation system to limit visitors to the Spencer Gorge - and try to prevent traffic and parking madness in Greensville - may have simply shifted the problem to a different community.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Friday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Ontario is being steered into an iceberg, while being told this is the best course. The province keeps defending its mangling of expert advice to actually control COVID-19. The province keeps pretending its framework that eases restrictions might actually slow the virus down.
The federal government is giving Ontario $614 million in new funding to help workers in underrepresented communities and economic sectors hard hit by COVID-19 to get new skills training and employment counselling, the Star has learned.
On the day Ontario’s COVID-19 numbers hit yet another all-time high and new modelling shows we’re well on our way to 6,500 cases a day by mid-December, Premier Doug Ford was happily talking about ship building.
When the federal, provincial and territorial agricultural ministers meet later this month, one controversial item of the agenda will be the fee hikes that some large grocery retailers have put on suppliers recently.
Forget colour-coded frameworks and stay home as much as possible with no outside visitors and no park socializing — not even with masks and distancing.
With thousands of high school students opting to move to virtual school next term, the Toronto Distict School Board says most schools will be turning to hybrid learning — with teachers teaching online and in person at the same time — to ensure students can get all the courses they need.
Ontario is hurtling toward as many as 6,500 new daily cases of COVID-19 by mid-December, four times the current record level, computer modelling predicts as Premier Doug Ford resists calls for stronger provincial action to slow the spread.