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The COVID-19 pandemic is placing Ontario's already precarious school bus industry under additional strain, parents and advocates argued Wednesday amid mounting reports of masse route cancellations and overcrowded vehicles.

Toronto police are investigating four alleged attacks against people of South Asian descent reported in the city's west end over the past three weeks. Police allege the incidents began around Aug. 25, but say the most recent were reported on Sept.

MONTREAL — Quebec Premier Francois Legault says there are no plans to follow British Columbia's lead in tightening restrictions on bars and nightclubs, even as the number of COVID-19 cases has steadily risen in the province in recent weeks.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Wednesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (16,099.52, down 118.49 points.) Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU). Energy. Down two cents, or 0.11 per cent, to $18.50 on 14.

TORONTO — North American stock markets enjoyed a broadly based bounce-back midweek after a three-day correction driven by the technology sector. All 11 sectors of the TSX were higher led by materials, consumer staples and technology.

TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford promised Wednesday to publicly disclose COVID-19 infection rates in the province's schools and allow municipalities to reimpose public health restrictions if needed.

TORONTO — The CEOs of Canada's big banks say the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed their companies to balance quickly adapting to new consumer habits with a careful approach to combating economic pressures.

TORONTO — Amazon.com plans to open two new distribution centres in Ontario that will create more than 2,500 new full-time jobs.

TORONTO — A new report finds immigrants, refugees and other newcomers accounted for nearly 44 per cent of Ontario's COVID-19 cases in the first half of the year.

Toronto police say they've arrested a group of 11 people and charged them with a combined 95 offences in an effort to slow the city's gun violence problems.