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MONTREAL — Provincial police have identified two bodies discovered Friday in a home on Montreal's South Shore, saying the deaths resulted from domestic violence as Quebec's femicide crisis continues.

Public health experts are raising their eyebrows at Ontario's decision to close recreational facilities, saying science shows COVID-19 transmission outside is extremely rare.

MONTREAL — Quebec is reporting its highest number of hospitalizations and intensive care cases due to COVID-19 since the second wave.

TORONTO — Ontario extended a stay-at-home order and announced new restrictions to fight COVID-19 on Friday, while giving police new powers to enforce the measures.

MONTREAL — Quebec will deploy sound trucks in hard-hit Montreal neighbourhoods to announce the presence of mobile clinics offering Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, Health Minister Christian Dube said Friday.

All hands are on deck at one Toronto vaccination clinic where surgeons and students alike are working together to inoculate as many people as possible in an effort to contain a tidal wave of new COVID-19 infections.

Toronto police are seeking a suspect in a string of suspected hate crimes at various subway stations. Investigators say the incidents took place last Friday and Sunday. They say a man allegedly spat on someone at Christie station last Friday morning.

TORONTO — Ontario is reporting another record in new daily COVID-19 infections as the government considers additional measures to curb surging cases. The province logged 4,812 new cases today, up from Thursday's record of 4,736.

A 38-year-old man has been charged after police in Niagara Region allege he sexually assaulted a woman in her 80s. Police say the investigation began last month after a woman reported an incident involving a man she met through the dating app Zoosk.

TORONTO — Ontario's COVID-19 situation is "dire," one of the province's top doctors said Thursday as the government considered new restrictions to deal with an alarming rise in cases.