"The message is simple, stay close to home," says Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit Associate Medical Officer Dr. Colin Lee urging residents to only go out for essential activities to protect everyone.
The number of COVID-19 cases for Simcoe Muskoka is now at more than 2,000 after the health unit confirmed 39 new positive tests from the virus, with Barrie accounting for almost half of the infections.
After a year of digging and disruptions, on Friday, Midland town officials joined leaders to celebrate the completion of Phase two of the King Street Rejuvenation Project.
Fentanyl and a sawed-off shotgun were just some of the items seized after police executed a search warrant in the town of Beaverton, which now has two people facing multiple charges.
Starting November 27 until January 2, additional officers, wearing masks and gloves, will be out at R.I.D.E. stop checks, ensuring drivers have not been consuming drugs or alcohol.
The province's police watchdog is investigating an interaction between a 33-year-old man and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) near Lindsay, Ont. on Thursday that left the man and a police officer seriously wounded and the man's one-year-old son, who he allegedly abducted, dead.
"It is about workers; it is not about transmission to customers," says Dr. Charles Gardner, who is sending a message to businesses across Simcoe Muskoka to step up and ensure employees are doing everything possible to protect themselves and others while in the workplace.
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His name is Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin. He comes with nearly 30 years of military experience, but now he's in for a mission like no other: overseeing the herculean logistical effort to see vaccines make their way across the country and into the arms of millions of Canadians in 2021.
An undercover investigation inside an Ontario pig farm reveals shocking conditions, and alleged abuse and neglect. W5 investigates how new laws may soon make it illegal to reveal what goes on behind the barn door.
Iran's supreme leader on Saturday demanded the 'definitive punishment' of those behind the killing of a scientist who led Tehran's disbanded military nuclear program, as the Islamic Republic blamed Israel for a slaying that has raised fears of reignited tensions across the Middle East.
While riding the bus and using less plastic are commendable, climate activists say there are other, more impactful ways Canadians can do their part to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said she has "piles of cash" at home as she has no bank account after the United States slapped sanctions on her in response to a draconian security law China imposed on the city.
Scientists and Inuit groups are calling for stronger protections for Canada's northernmost waters as the so-called Last Ice Area rapidly lives up to its name.
Thousands of critics of a proposed security law that would restrict sharing images of police officers in France gathered across the country in protest Saturday, and officers in Paris who were advised to behave responsibly during the demonstrations fired tear gas to disperse rowdy protesters in the largely peaceful crowd.
Ontario health officials are reporting more than 1,800 new COVID-19 cases after the province processed a record-breaking number of tests over the past 24 hours.
