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TORONTO — A Toronto ambulance dispatch centre says 12 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. A spokesperson for Toronto Paramedic Services says nine of the infected people were still in quarantine as of Wednesday morning.

The Ontario government is imposing a stay-at-home order in an effort to bring down soaring COVID-19 infections. Here's a closer look at what that means: --- When does the order take effect? It comes into effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday.

MALLORYTOWN, ONT — Police in eastern Ontario are investigating two recent incidents involving pets, one of them falling mysteriously ill. But Leeds County provincial police say there’s no indication the incidents are connected.

Sarnia, Ont., police have arrested a suspect in the death of a 26-year-old man. The Sarnia Police Service says Timothy James Noj, 32, was arrested Tuesday in the death of Luis Enrique Hernandez.

TORONTO — Ontario ordered residents to stay home and declared a state of emergency on Tuesday as grim projections indicated soaring COVID-19 cases could overwhelm the health-care system in weeks.

MONTREAL — Dr. Eugene Bereza calls it the "nightmare scenario": the possibility doctors in Quebec will have to implement a government protocol to decide who is admitted to intensive care and who will die.

TORONTO — Ontario has declared a state of emergency and issued a stay-at-home order that will take effect Thursday in response to surging COVID-19 infections that threaten to overrun the health-care system.

The Ontario government is imposing a stay-at-home order in an effort to bring down soaring COVID-19 infections. Here's a closer look at what that means: --- When does the order take effect? It comes into effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday.

TORONTO — The head of a Toronto cardiac centre says the pandemic is compounding pre-existing emotional and mental health pressures on doctors, nurses and other health-care staff, describing their risk of burnout as "a public health crisis." Dr.

QUEBEC — A man accused of killing his two children last fall made a brief court appearance Tuesday in Quebec City. Michael Chicoine, 30, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder.