The chief coroner also says most people who have died suddenly from COVID at home in the last month in south-central Ontario were under 60.

Toronto and Peel have temporarily closed all or part of 13 businesses under an emergency order that gives the regions the authority to shutter workplaces with five or more cases of COVID-19.

The most influential Republicans today traffic in rage that is stridently and often very transparently detached from the facts. Case in point: the myth that Joe Biden wants to ban meat, Edward Keenan writes.

As Premier Doug Ford remains in quarantine due to workplace exposure to COVID-19, the Progressive Conservatives are scrambling to develop a provincial paid sick leave program.

Ontario is on the verge of boosting vaccine supplies to COVID-19 hot zones in a bid to slow the surge in hospitalizations.

The vaccine will be available at a “limited” number of pharmacies in targeted hot spots, said Ontario Pharmacy Association CEO Justin Bates.

Even after this past year, it’s hard to find any words at all.

The death of a 13-year-old Brampton girl Emily Victoria Viegas is an “exceedingly uncommon” outcome, experts say.

Emily Victoria Viegas, 13, told her worried father she just needed to rest, maybe she had the flu, a family friend says. A short time later, the Brampton teen was found unconscious in her bed — and then became one of the youngest Canadians to die...

While experts debate the reasons behind growing antidepressant use, there is shared concern over medication alone being the response to young people’s calls for help.

Meanwhile: Toronto is ordering 4 full closures and 8 partial closures of workplaces under Section 22 order for businesses with 5 or more COVID-19 cases.