For the second straight day, Ontario health officials are reporting more than 400 cases of the novel coronavirus after a week of cases below that number.
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Though Black Out Tuesday was originally organized by the music community, the social media world also went dark in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, joining voices around the world outraged by the killings of black people in the U.S.
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The Ontario government has announced an investment to support the local production of personal protective equipment (PPE), the critically important gear used by front-line workers across the province.
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Ontario's patient ombudsman is launching an investigation into the province's long-term care homes after receiving more than 150 complaints about residents' experiences during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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A group of Seneca College students, graduates and teachers is stepping up to help ease feelings of loneliness among seniors in the GTA during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A University of Toronto student has graduated as the medical school’s first black woman to be named valedictorian—and the first woman to receive the honour in 14 years.
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Mobile pop-up assessment centres have started to appear in Scarborough this week as part of the Progressive Conservative government’s plan to ramp up testing for COVID-19 in Ontario.
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Some downtown retail stores have boarded up their windows amid fears of rioting similar to what has been observed in a number of U.S. cities but Mayor John Tory is expressing confidence that Torontonians will continue to protest peacefully and says that any suggestion otherwise is likely just the musings of a small group of people who “spend a lot of their time in their basement typing out these kind of messages.”
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The Ministry of Long-Term Care announced Tuesday that it had issued a mandatory management order for a Kitchener hospital to take over management of Forest Heights Revera.
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Toronto’s board of health is calling on the province to begin collecting data on race, occupation and socioeconomic information when investigating COVID-19 cases.
Premier Doug Ford promises more COVID-19 testing for migrant farm workers as an outbreak at a farm in Norfolk County sees 164 workers test positive for the virus.
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Public health staff are scrambling to conduct contact tracing for nearly 500 COVID-19 patients that were not flagged to local public health agencies in Ontario due to a reporting error.
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The Ford government will soon begin the procurement process for the Ontario Line subway but it is choosing to split the project into two segments and will not seek out companies to design and build the northern portion terminating at the Ontario Science Centre, at least initially.
Tear gas choked Paris streets as riot police faced off with protesters setting fires Tuesday amid growing global outrage over George Floyd's death in the United States, racial injustice and heavy-handed police tactics around the world.
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An Ontario real estate agent who lost her income and was forced to sell her home when the COVID-19 pandemic hit says she feels like her bank took the last stab at her when they charged a $30,000 mortgage penalty.
A deadly outbreak of COVID-19 at one of Ontario's hardest-hit long-term care homes was caused by severe under-staffing, a lack of personal protective equipment and the failure to separate infected and non-infected residents, a $20-million class-action lawsuit alleges.
