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KINGSTON, Ont. — An eastern Ontario city is limiting gatherings to a maximum of five people in response to the spread of the Omicron variant. The medical officer of health for the Kingston, Ont.

The union representing thousands of Ontario college faculty members says it has given notice of possible labour action that could start as early as this weekend.

TORONTO — More than 80,000 Ontarians remained without power Sunday, a day after violent winds blew through the southern part of the province.

An eastern Ontario university has postponed in-person exams due to rising COVID-19 case counts in the community.

TORONTO — With the Omicron variant poised to become Ontario's dominant COVID-19 strain, experts want the province to explain how it plans to shift its pandemic response if many people are infected much more quickly than in previous waves.

More than 280,000 Ontarians lost power on Saturday evening due to high winds that wreaked havoc in the southern part of the province and triggered a widespread warning from Environment Canada.

Ottawa confirmed community spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant on Saturday as another public health unit investigated likely outbreaks of the strain and the province reported more than 1,600 new virus infections.

A southern Ontario transit agency brought its website back online Saturday afternoon following a 17-hour outage in response to a cyber threat. Metrolinx said the GO Transit website was back online and fully functional as of 1:15 p.m.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford is inviting the prime minister to a summit on housing affordability.

TORONTO — All adults in Ontario will become eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine booster next month, the province's top doctor announced Friday, warning that the highly transmissible Omicron variant may become the dominant strain in mere weeks.