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Some students will emerge from this year's extended period of online learning lagging far behind their peers, experts and teachers warn as they try to mitigate the situation.

TORONTO — A Toronto man who pushed another man in front of a moving subway train told police he did so because he believed it was his landlord, court heard Thursday.

TORONTO — The impact of COVID-19 on intensive care units remains "alarming" despite a recent steadying of the number of patients treated there, says a group representing Ontario's hospitals.

The first person who tested positive for a variant of COVID-19 in the Kingston, Ont.

A Canada Post worker who contracted COVID-19 amid a major outbreak at a Mississauga, Ont., facility has died, the company announced Wednesday, as the union representing postal workers demanded its members be kept safe.

MONTREAL — Quebec's national public health institute issued new recommendations Wednesday for the use of N95 masks by health-care professionals.

TORONTO — Ontario is ramping up pandemic safety inspections on farms where thousands of migrant workers are set to arrive for the new growing season, although the labour minister wouldn't say if those employees would have access to COVID-19 vaccines.

Ontario is moving to bar colleges and universities from asking students who report sexual violence or harassment about their sexual history.

CALEDON, Ont. — Police in Caledon, Ont., say a vehicle using emergency red and blue lighting roared by a patrolling cruiser on Highway 410. The officer pulled the vehicle over and, after investigating, seized two emergency light bars.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government says it will not challenge a temporary court order granted Tuesday that exempts the homeless from a provincewide curfew imposed to limit the spread of COVID-19.