Dozens of activists constructed green "foam domes" for unhoused people at a demonstration outside Mayor John Tory's condo on Sunday to make the point that there is a housing crisis in Toronto.

One of the top infectious diseases experts in the world says despite early successes in the pandemic, Canada faces a worsening situation until a COVID-19 vaccine is rolled out widely, and that the country needs to "double down" on public health measures.

Thousands of Canadians are thumbing their noses at government advice to stay home and hopping international flights to sunny destinations even as the COVID-19 crisis worsens. Canadian air carriers operated more than 1,500 flights between Canada and 18 popular vacation spots since Oct. 1.

Not long ago, the political narrative in Canada was all about vaccine deliveries and whether this country was keeping up with its peers. But the dire new projections out of Ontario demonstrate once again that getting vaccines lined up isn't even half the battle — and the battle is going badly.

Leaders of two federal political parties are expected to attend a rally outside a Toronto long-term care home on Sunday.

Ontario faced a shortage of personal protective equipment at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in part because it did not replenish its stockpiles over the previous years, an independent commission examining the impact of the health crisis on long-term care has heard.

The COVID-19 pandemic has made long-standing calls to provide Toronto with more decision-making power and better protection from political interference increasingly urgent, say groups advocating for an overhaul of Ontario's political power structure.

On balance, Canadian politicians have been following the guidance on travel during the pandemic. But the examples of the few who haven't threaten to undermine the entire public health effort — an effort that depends on shared sacrifices.

Each stitch on Sarah McLean's pandemic knitting project represents 100 deaths. For her, knitting in her family's own cases of COVID-19 into the project drove home the scope of the crisis.

Rod Phillips quietly departed Canada earlier this month as Ontario's finance minister. He returned today amid a firestorm of controversy and tendered his resignation. Here's what we know about the whirlwind sequence of events that upeneded his political career.

Three police officers in Hamilton, Ont., are injured after an incident with a "person in crisis" in the city's downtown core.

Following an auditor general's report that found Ontario’s pandemic response is being driven by political staff atop a command structure developed by a US consulting agency, Premier Doug Ford is insisting that medical experts and Ontario’s top doctor are calling the shots.

Dozens of activists constructed green "foam domes" for unhoused people at a demonstration outside Mayor John Tory's condo on Sunday to make the point that there is a housing crisis in Toronto.

One of the top infectious diseases experts in the world says despite early successes in the pandemic, Canada faces a worsening situation until a COVID-19 vaccine is rolled out widely, and that the country needs to "double down" on public health measures.

Following an auditor general's report that found Ontario’s pandemic response is being driven by political staff atop a command structure developed by a US consulting agency, Premier Doug Ford is insisting that medical experts and Ontario’s top doctor are calling the shots.

Dozens of activists constructed green "foam domes" for unhoused people at a demonstration outside Mayor John Tory's condo on Sunday to make the point that there is a housing crisis in Toronto.

One of the top infectious diseases experts in the world says despite early successes in the pandemic, Canada faces a worsening situation until a COVID-19 vaccine is rolled out widely, and that the country needs to "double down" on public health measures.

We’re learning more about a 19-year-old Syrian refugee who worked at a long-term care home near London, Ont. and died after contracting COVID-19. Yassin Dabeh, is the youngest person in the region to die from the virus. Meanwhile, doctor’s say the situation inside long-term care homes is a "humanitarian crisis." Farrah Merali has the story ...

Family members of an Ontario man diagnosed with schizophrenia say his doctors didn't do "their due diligence" when they failed to admit him to a hospital after he called a crisis line the day before stabbing his mother and setting her house on fire with her inside.

After months of mounting calls to remove police from the frontlines for people in mental health distress, the city of Toronto is proposing a pilot program that would see mobile crisis support teams dispatched to non-emergency calls in four communities with some of the highest rates of calls for people in crisis.

Ontario plans to implement a digital evidence management system for police that it says will allow officers to focus on crimes and prevention rather than pushing paper.

Thousands of Canadians are thumbing their noses at government advice to stay home and hopping international flights to sunny destinations even as the COVID-19 crisis worsens. Canadian air carriers operated more than 1,500 flights between Canada and 18 popular vacation spots since Oct. 1.

Not long ago, the political narrative in Canada was all about vaccine deliveries and whether this country was keeping up with its peers. But the dire new projections out of Ontario demonstrate once again that getting vaccines lined up isn't even half the battle — and the battle is going badly.

Leaders of two federal political parties are expected to attend a rally outside a Toronto long-term care home on Sunday.

Ontario faced a shortage of personal protective equipment at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in part because it did not replenish its stockpiles over the previous years, an independent commission examining the impact of the health crisis on long-term care has heard.

The COVID-19 pandemic has made long-standing calls to provide Toronto with more decision-making power and better protection from political interference increasingly urgent, say groups advocating for an overhaul of Ontario's political power structure.

On balance, Canadian politicians have been following the guidance on travel during the pandemic. But the examples of the few who haven't threaten to undermine the entire public health effort — an effort that depends on shared sacrifices.

Each stitch on Sarah McLean's pandemic knitting project represents 100 deaths. For her, knitting in her family's own cases of COVID-19 into the project drove home the scope of the crisis.

Rod Phillips quietly departed Canada earlier this month as Ontario's finance minister. He returned today amid a firestorm of controversy and tendered his resignation. Here's what we know about the whirlwind sequence of events that upeneded his political career.