Ontario News

TORONTO — Tensions are mounting in Windsor-Essex, Ont., over the region's continued pandemic lockdown, with a local mayor and some business owners saying public health officials haven't done enough to halt the spread of COVID-19 on local farms.

A school board in Hamilton has ended a program that placed police officers in elementary and high schools, as some school boards across Canada weigh their own programs amid ongoing protests denouncing racism and police violence.

MONTREAL — An employee of the Quebec Liberal party is being tested for COVID-19 after she exhibited symptoms of the novel coronavirus, leading to the suspension of a legislative committee on which she worked.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — The Peel District School Board has parted ways with its director of education following reports on persistent anti-Black racism within the board. The board says effective immediately, Peter Joshua is no longer with the board.

TORONTO — Ontario elementary students will be taught a new math curriculum starting in September that incorporates learning to code, expanded learning on financial literacy, and a return to memorizing multiplication tables.

TORONTO — Ontario has recorded the first death of a child with COVID-19, though officials say it does not appear to be the cause. Toronto Public Health says a child under the age of 10 died with the disease, but not as a result of it.

MONTREAL — Quebec's police watchdog announced Tuesday morning it was investigating the death of a 53-year-old man after an officer shot him during an intervention northeast of Montreal.

TORONTO — Police say a man who left a Toronto psychiatric facility without permission has been found. Investigators had been searching for Simon Shimout Napayok, 32, since Monday morning.

Montrealer Jacob McPhee was finally back at the gym on Monday, eager to start gaining back the 20 pounds of weight he had lost over the previous three months. "I'm a little discouraged and I want to gain it back," McPhee said.

TORONTO — Ontario's two largest regions will enter Stage 2 of the province's reopening plan Wednesday, with restaurant patios, hair salons and swimming pools in Toronto and Peel Region able to resume operations.