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TORONTO — Ontario's health system is preparing for widespread measures including patient and staff transfers to deal with a growing wave of COVID-19 that's infecting people at an unprecedented rate.

The Toronto Public Library says it will temporarily close 44 branches due to COVID-19 related staffing shortages.

TORONTO — One person has died and two are being treated in a Toronto hospital after a shooting in Etobicoke Monday night. Police say they were called for a shooting in the Long Branch area near Lakeshore Boulevard West and Thirtieth Street.

TORONTO — Students, parents and teachers in Ontario are bracing for another stint of virtual education after the province announced Monday that schools would not reopen to in-person classes for at least two weeks due to the recent surge in COVID-19 c

TORONTO — A 37-year-old man has died in a Toronto hospital after he was shot in North York Sunday evening. Police say there were called before 6 p.m. on Sunday for a shooting in the Weston Road and Highway 401 area.

An Ontario First Nation is requesting military assistance amid a COVID-19 outbreak that has infected half of its on-reserve population and “crippled” daily operations.

TORONTO — Ontario is moving school classes online, pausing non-urgent surgeries and imposing widespread business closures as part of its bid to slow the spread of COVID-19 as the highly transmissible Omicron variant threatens health system capacity.

MELANCTHON, Ont. — Investigators with the Dufferin detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police say they have charged 17 people with firearms and weapons-related charges.

TORONTO — Ontario hospitals are feeling the brunt of soaring COVID-19 case counts as the virus rips through the province at record speed and infects high numbers of patients and health care workers.

Toronto police say a teen has died nearly a week after a Boxing Day collision in downtown Toronto that left eight people injured.