Ontario News
Ontario extending Toronto and Peel lockdowns, new restrictions to be announced Monday
TORONTO — Ontario will keep Toronto and Peel Region under lockdown and reveal new measures to fight the pandemic on Monday.
Premier Doug Ford said...
Ontario plans travel tax credit for tourism within the province
Ontario is creating a travel tax credit to help reinvigorate the province's tourism industry when COVID-19 restrictions are eased.
Tourism Minister Lisa MacLeod said Thursday...
Ontario public health to weigh possibility of NHL restart as lockdown looms
TORONTO — The NHL is considering having all seven Canadian teams play the upcoming season in the United States, according to multiple media reports.
The...
Premier Doug Ford says Ontario is considering new measures to curb COVID-19
TORONTO — Ontario is considering new measures to curb rapidly rising COVID-19 cases, Premier Doug Ford said Thursday as hospitals, doctors and nurses called...
Ontario asks hospitals to prepare surge capacity as COVID-19 case rates increase
TORONTO — Ontario is asking hospitals to be ready to use their surge capacity within 48 hours should soaring COVID-19 cases prompt the need...
Ministry tells Ontario school boards to prepare for remote school in January
TORONTO — Ontario is telling its school boards to prepare for the possibility of fully remote learning in the new year, prompting calls for...
Ontario reports 2,432 new COVID-19 cases today, and 23 new deaths from the virus
TORONTO — Ontario is reporting a single-day record of 2,432 new cases of COVID-19 today, and 23 new deaths due to the virus.
Health Minister...
Sixteen more COVID deaths in Ontario; 1,677 new cases reported
TORONTO — Another 16 people in Ontario have succumbed to the ravages of COVID-19, 10 of them residents of nursing homes, provincial authorities reported...
Provinces awash in second wave, sharpen focus of vaccine rollout plans
TORONTO — Canada's initial rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine came into clearer focus Thursday as Ontario announced it would go ahead with its first...
Ontario moving Windsor-Essex and York Region into lockdown on Monday
TORONTO — Two more of Ontario's COVID-19 hot spots will move into lockdown next week, a day before the province administers the first vaccines...
