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A former Conservative federal cabinet minister and Toronto mayor has stepped down as head of Ontario's Greenbelt Council in protest over proposed rules he says would gut environmental protections in the province.

MONTREAL — Quebec is reporting 1,691 new cases of COVID-19 today and 24 additional deaths linked to the virus. Public health officials say 10 of those deaths took place in the past 24 hours.

Mental health researchers are sounding the alarm over a growing body of data suggesting that dementia patients in Ontario are increasingly being assigned to scarce health-care beds ostensibly reserved for psychiatric patients.

TORONTO — Doors open at the new Union Station GO bus hub in Toronto today. The 23,000 square-foot terminal, at the north-east corner of Bay Street and Lake Shore Boulevard, links people travelling in and out of the downtown core.

Ontario is reporting a record high of 1,859 new COVID-19 cases today, along with 20 new deaths linked to the virus. The total breaks the previous record of 1,855 reached last month.

Quebec is reporting more than 2,000 new cases of COVID-19 for the first time since the pandemic began, as well as dozens of new deaths.

QUEBEC — The Quebec government says it will spend $18.6 million over the next five years to improve policing in Indigenous communities.

BRAMPTON, Ont. — A 33-year-old man has been charged with one count of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder after an early-morning house fire in Brampton, Ont.

Twelve people have died in a COVID-19 outbreak at a hospital in London, Ont., that has seen dozens of staff and patients sickened. As of Friday, the outbreak at University Hospital, which began on Nov.

MONTREAL — Amid a worsening COVID-19 situation and with another region moving to the maximum alert level on Friday, Quebec's opposition parties called on the government to allow the province's public health director to be questioned over the pandemic