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MONTREAL — The situation in some Quebec hospitals has become so critical that authorities have begun installing beds in so-called, "non-traditional locations," such as a Quebec City hotel, the health minister said Friday.

Residents forced to leave their Indigenous community in northern Ontario over a water crisis began flying home after nearly two months, their chief said on Friday.

KINGSTON, Ont. — Four COVID-19 cases are now reported in staff at a prison in Kingston, Ont., where 80 inmates tested positive.

TORONTO — The dining room table in the Matheson house runs long – so long that Cheryl Kinney Matheson wondered if it provided the social distance needed for COVID-19 precautions.

VAUGHAN, Ont. — An Ontario homeowner has been ordered to pay $880 for hosting a birthday party that violated COVID-19 rules and has since been linked to 11 cases.

Eighty inmates have tested positive for COVID-19 at a prison in Kingston, Ont., the federal government said Thursday, hours after announcing it had suspended visits to Ontario's correctional facilities.

MONTREAL — A new report by Quebec's national public health institute suggests the province has done a better job protecting long-term care centres from COVID-19 outbreaks during the second wave of the pandemic than it did in the spring. Between Feb.

TORONTO — Ontario is considering new measures to curb rapidly rising COVID-19 cases, Premier Doug Ford said Thursday as hospitals, doctors and nurses called for stricter lockdowns in hard-hit regions.

VAUGHAN, Ont. — Police say they've recovered more than $600,000 in stolen chocolate and nuts as well as two tractor trailers. York Region police also say they have arrested three men in relation to the sweet thefts.

TORONTO — Ontario is telling its school boards to prepare for the possibility of fully remote learning in the new year, prompting calls for clarity on whether the government plans to shut down in-class learning in January.