TORONTO - An enforcement blitz that uncovered numerous violations of COVID-19 prevention protocols across big-box retailers in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas will broaden its scope to include the rest of the province in the weeks ahead, the province's labour minister said Sunday.

Boxes of doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine arrived by plane in nine Cree communities in Quebec's James Bay region over the weekend and were immediately put to work to protect the community, the head of the regional health board said Sunday.

TORONTO - Ontario is reporting 2,998 new cases of COVID-19 today and 100 more deaths linked to the virus.

BRACEBRIDGE, Ont. - A boil water advisory has been lifted for an Ontario cottage country town affected by a water main break.

TORONTO - A stay-at-home order went into effect in Ontario on Thursday but the government said police would not have the authority to randomly stop residents on the street to ensure compliance.

TORONTO - Confusion swirled in Ontario about the province's anti-COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, as many residents feared they'd be stopped by police or see officers force their way into homes as part of a crackdown.

MONTREAL - Quebec will wait up to 90 days before giving a COVID-19 vaccine booster to people who have received a first shot, Health Minister Christian Dube said Thursday.

TORONTO - Ontario has temporarily paused residential evictions during its current state of emergency.

TORONTO - A top official at a major hospital in London, Ont., announced her resignation on Thursday, a day after the facility's CEO sued for wrongful termination related to his travels to the United States.

Montreal is once again the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec, Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante said Wednesday as the city's hospital network scrambled to open more beds for a rising number of patients.

TORONTO - Ontario's premier defended his government's new stay-at-home order on Wednesday as critics called it unclear and officials in the province's largest city said they were still seeking details on the rules.

Two teachers unions are calling for a provincewide extension of online learning during Ontario's state of emergency, saying the current regional approach doesn't do enough to protect students or teachers from the ravages of COVID-19.

TORONTO - A proposed class action against a prominent nursing-home company now covers all its facilities, including those hit hardest by COVID-19, and seeks more than $200 million in damages, according to a fresh statement of claim.

TORONTO - As intensive care units in Ontario hospitals continue to fill up with COVID-19 patients, the province has yet to finalize a plan on who should get life-saving care when health resources are limited.

TORONTO - A Toronto ambulance dispatch centre says 12 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19.

TORONTO - Ontario ordered residents to stay home and declared a state of emergency on Tuesday as grim projections indicated soaring COVID-19 cases could overwhelm the health-care system in weeks.

TORONTO - Ontario has declared a state of emergency and issued a stay-at-home order that will take effect Thursday in response to surging COVID-19 infections that threaten to overrun the health-care system.

The Ontario government is imposing a stay-at-home order in an effort to bring down soaring COVID-19 infections. Here's a closer look at what that means:

MONTREAL - Dr. Eugene Bereza calls it the "nightmare scenario": the possibility doctors in Quebec will have to implement a government protocol to decide who is admitted to intensive care and who will die.

A COVID-19 outbreak at a First Nation reserve near London, Ont., has grown to 33 cases.

The CEO of a hospital network in London, Ont., was ousted from his post Monday after concerns were raised about his international travel during the pandemic.

HAMILTON - A laboratory in Hamilton has apologized after 31 people received incorrect COVID-19 test results because of what it called a processing error.

MONTREAL - Quebec's elementary school students are back in class today, despite a sustained infection rate of more than 2,500 daily COVID-19 cases reported in the province.

TORONTO - Ontario's cabinet is set to meet later today to consider new measures to combat skyrocketing rates of COVID-19.

BRACEBRIDGE, Ont. - An Ontario cottage country town is under a boil water advisory after a water main break.

MONTREAL - Dozens of Quebec residents are facing fines for violating the province's newly enacted curfew on Sunday as the COVID-19 infection rates the measure is meant to curb continued their sharp upward trajectory.

TORONTO - Premier Doug Ford warned that "turbulent waters" are ahead in the fight against COVID-19 on Sunday as Ontario set yet another single-day high for new diagnoses.

Meredith Coulas has several lessons planned for students returning to her classroom, but none so pressing as how to protect themselves against COVID-19.

OTTAWA - Monaghan Mushrooms Ltd. is recalling its Belle Grove brand Whole White Mushrooms.

FORT ALBANY, Ont. - Members of the military are helping a remote First Nation in northeastern Ontario deal with a COVID-19 outbreak.

TORONTO - Ontario's four major teachers' unions say they want the government to establish specific benchmarks that would trigger moves to in-person or virtual learning.

TORONTO - Ontario's current lockdown may be extended and "extreme" new measures could be put in place if skyrocketing COVID-19 rates do not come down, the government said Friday as daily infections hit a new high.

MONTREAL - Quebec is defending its decision to reopen schools as COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths soar, with one public health official saying classrooms aren't the primary drivers of transmission.

TORONTO - Ontario hospitals have been warned to ready themselves for patient transfers from outside their regions as rising COVID-19 admissions place increasing pressure on the health-care system.

TORONTO - A long-term care home in Toronto hit 73 COVID-19 deaths on Thursday after two more residents succumbed to the virus.

TORONTO - All schools in southern Ontario will remain closed for in-person learning until Jan. 25, a move the government said was needed to protect students and staff from surging rates of COVID-19.

SIOUX LOOKOUT, Ont. - As medical interpreter Tom Chapman received his COVID-19 vaccination on Thursday, 85-year-old patient Eunice Fiddler told him in Ojicree: "Don't cry."

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.