Ontario News

MONTREAL — The Quebec government says conditions haven't been met to allow elementary schools to reopen in the greater Montreal area, so they will remain closed until late August.

TORONTO — Ontario is set to enter its first stage of reopening next Tuesday including lifting restrictions on retail stores, golf driving ranges and tennis courts, surgeries and dog grooming.

TORONTO — Four men have been charged in the case of a 14-year-old Toronto boy who was allegedly abducted over his stepbrother's criminal activity, police said Thursday as they appealed for help in tracking down a fifth suspect.

OTTAWA — The federal government says it is contributing $2.3 million in funding to support a response plan in northern Saskatchewan dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak in the region.

MONTREAL — The period of relative unity among Quebec's political class came ended Wednesday as opposition lawmakers hammered the government about the province's dubious distinction of recording the majority of Canada's total COVID-19 deaths.

Quebec will permit several recreational sports including tennis and golf to begin next week across the entire province — including in Montreal, which continues to be the province's COVID-19 epicentre.

TORONTO — Ontario issued a new emergency order on Wednesday allowing it to temporarily replace management at some long-term care homes struggling to contain COVID-19 outbreaks, but the province's health minister said there are no immediate plans to u

Toronto's top public health official says a second man who uses the city's homeless shelter system has died of COVID-19. Dr. Eileen de Villa says the man in his 70s was a resident of the city's largest homeless shelter, Seaton House.

Toronto police say a woman has died after being hit by a city pickup truck that lost control and mounted a curb on Wednesday morning. Det. Brett Moore of the Traffic Services Division says the woman was out for a walk at about 10 a.m.

TORONTO — Ontario's Health Minister says the province is going to better monitor children after reports of a rare inflammatory illness in kids diagnosed with COVID-19.