UHN president Dr. Kevin Smith addressed controversies over the COVID vaccine rollout at Ontario’s largest hospital network after surplus vaccines were offered to a wide range of staff at its hospital and four other centres.

Just a few minutes of close contact with someone who has the more contagious U.K. variant of COVID-19 is enough to spread the infection and is one of the driving factors behind the new stay-at-home order, says Ontario’s chief medical officer.

Coun. Joe Cressy said stay-at-home order a good step but not enough to tame COVID-19.

The Ontario government opposes lifting an injunction that froze the assets of the bureaucrat fired after an alleged $11 million COVID-19 fraud because “there is a significant risk that the cash consists of proceeds of crime,” according to interna...

As the end of Donald Trump’s term comes a close, Toronto Star Washington Bureau Chief Edward Keenan sat down with his predecessor Daniel Dale, now a reporter at CNN, to discuss the current state of U.S. politics and just what it’s been like to co...

The outgoing president was never the kind of politician who would accept defeat graciously and do the right thing for his country, Edward Keenan writes.

Tracking progress of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout across Canada.

The Star asked for reader questions about Ontario’s new stay-at-home order, which took effect Thursday. We’ve updated this file with what we now know, and made note of what we still don’t know.

A calculator created by a Canadian researcher and a U.K. scientist estimates timelines for Canadian vaccinations, based on various factors

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The Star asked experts about what both everyday people and leaders in government need to consider in the fight against COVID-19 ahead of Ontario’s new stay-at-home order.

Meanwhile, a global team of researchers arrived Thursday in Wuhan where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to conduct a politically sensitive investigation into its origins.