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MONTREAL — Quebec food-processing company Olymel says it doesn't plan to close either of its two plants in the province dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks. A hog-slaughter facility in Princeville, Que.

More than 30 cases of COVID-19 have been linked to a southwestern Ontario church, forcing hundreds of people into self-isolation, public health officials said Friday.

TORONTO — A plan to ease COVID-19 restrictions in the province's hot spots is coming next week, Premier Doug Ford said Friday, indicating he's asked health advisors for a strategy to allow shuttered businesses to safely reopen.

TORONTO — Ontario's hospitals say they are facing "unprecedented" financial pressures and many of them have been forced to use lines of credit to cover COVID-19-related costs.

Many of the personal support workers who left Ontario's long-term care system in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic due to poor pay and lack of full-time jobs have not returned, an independent commission has heard.

A group from Ontario's restaurant industry is calling on the provincial government to explain its decision to impose tighter COVID-19 restrictions on the sector.

TORONTO — The COVID-19 pandemic cancelled sports programs, curtailed music lessons and limited class mingling at St. Barnabas Catholic School, but it didn't cancel photo day.

Canada's largest school board is trying to assure parents it can provide a safe, stable and successful learning environment during the pandemic as it deals with the fact that thousands of students have left its system.

Toronto police say a man is under arrest for a pair of alleged sexual assaults in the city's subway system. The first happened early Wednesday morning on a subway car. The second happened that afternoon on an escalator in a subway station.

TORONTO — Electricity rates are set to rise this weekend in Ontario, with the average customer seeing a nearly two per cent increase to their hydro bill compared to before the pandemic.