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Ontario's wildlife will likely experience a population boom thanks to an ongoing state of emergency that is keeping most people in the province at home, a pair of experts say.

TORONTO — Ontario extended its state of emergency for another four weeks on Tuesday, as Premier Doug Ford pledged to move more resources to the province's hard-hit long-term care homes.

TORONTO — At least 30 people using homeless and refugee shelters in Toronto have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said Tuesday.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government is looking for reinforcements in its fight against COVID-19 in the province's understaffed long-term care homes.

TORONTO — Ontario will extend its state of emergency by another month, Premier Doug Ford said Monday as he cautioned that even with some promising signs in the province's COVID-19 fight, it is too early to start lifting restrictions.

TORONTO — Nadine Parker couldn't have guessed that she'd be writing her will at the age of 32. But four months pregnant with identical twins and married to a nurse, Parker said the growing COVID-19 pandemic has them both confronting their mortality.

TORONTO — Ridership on two of Ontario's largest transit agencies is down between 80 and 90 per cent since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, in a situation a national industry group said mirrors the experience of many local services.

The executive director of a group home for people with disabilities says the number of positive COVID-19 cases at the facility continues to climb. Shelley Brillinger says 12 of the 40 residents currently living at Participation House in Markham, Ont.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government will allow some residential construction to resume as an essential service during the COVID-19 shutdown that has brought much of the provincial economy to a halt.

MONTREAL — Quebec Premier Francois Legault says he won't put children at risk after blowback from parents and teachers over talk of sending kids back to school and daycare in the coming weeks after an extended COVID-19 shutdown.