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TORONTO — Santa Claus is moving to prime time in Toronto. The city's annual Santa Claus parade will go broadcast-only this year, with a two-hour show set for the evening of Saturday, Dec. 5.

KING TOWNSHIP, Ont. — Police north of Toronto have laid 20 new sex charges against a doctor for alleged incidents spanning nearly a decade. York Regional Police initially charged the 49-year-old man from Richmond Hill, Ont.

TORONTO — Parents of students with the sniffles or a headache will no longer have to line up for hours to get their children tested at COVID-19 assessments centres under Ontario's newly amended screening guidelines for schools and daycares. Dr.

Nearly half of students at public elementary schools in a COVID-19 hot spot west of Toronto are learning online, according to data provided by the school board.

TORONTO — Four major home-care providers are asking the Ontario government to increase support for their sector, saying it would reduce pressure on a health-care system burdened by COVID-19.

TORONTO — A woman is facing criminal charges in the death of her two-year-old son, who fell from a 14th floor window in Toronto over the summer. Police say it happened on the afternoon of July 28 when the boy was sleeping in his apartment.

TORONTO — It feels safer to live in a tent at a city park than to stay in shelters or hotels far from services during the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of homeless men and women told a Toronto court Thursday.

TORONTO — A man in northwest Toronto was shot dead in broad daylight as he was heading to the hospital with his newborn baby, police said Thursday.

The Ontario Poison Centre says it's seeing a rise in calls related to mushroom foraging, including some where people had to be hospitalized after eating wild mushrooms.

TORONTO — Ontario will not appeal a court ruling against its anti-carbon tax stickers, the government said Thursday, putting an end to an 18-month political and legal battle between Ottawa and the province.