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TORONTO — A small fleet of mobile COVID-19 testing centres is helping Toronto communities track the spread of the virus.

TORONTO — A man found guilty of sexually assaulting a child will get a new hearing because the trial judge failed to provide reasons for convicting him, Ontario's Court of Appeal ruled on Friday.

TORONTO — Two more of Ontario's COVID-19 hot spots will move into lockdown next week, a day before the province administers the first vaccines against the virus to several thousand health-care workers.

RENFREW, Ont. — Public health officials say a COVID-19 outbreak in a small community in eastern Ontario has reached 55 COVID-19 cases. The Renfrew public health unit says about half those tested in the Mennonite community tested positive.

LONDON, Ont. — Officials say five people have been taken to hospital and two others may be trapped after a building under construction partially collapsed in London, Ont., on Friday.

A group of religious leaders in Windsor, Ont., say they are pausing in-person services as COVID-19 infections rise in the city.

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. — An Edmonton man has been arrested in Ontario for the alleged theft of a vehicle missing from Canada’s easternmost province. Police in Sault Ste., Ont., say the Jeep was reported stolen in Newfoundland last month.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Police say they have recovered 82 iPad tablets stolen from Brampton, Ont. public schools over the last several months.

TORONTO — Ontario could see 2,500 daily cases of COVID-19 by the end of the month if the virus keeps spreading at the current rate, the province's top doctor said Thursday, telling residents they needed to heed calls to stay home in order to curb ris

MONTREAL — Quebec's health minister defended his government's decision to go further than public health recommendations by shuttering restaurant dining rooms in regions hard-hit by the second wave of the pandemic earlier this fall.