Around Ontario

TORONTO — One day after rejecting Toronto's bid for reinstatement, the Super League board voted unanimously Tuesday in favour of admitting a 12th team to replace the Wolfpack next season.

TORONTO — Canadian strawweight Randa (Quiet Storm) Markos will make her 16th UFC appearance when she takes on Japan's Kanako Murata on a Nov. 14 Fight Night card in Las Vegas.

TORONTO — Canadian director-actor Karena Evans is set to helm the first two episodes of a "Gossip Girl" reboot.

Ontario is reporting 1,050 new cases of COVID-19 today and 14 additional deaths related to the novel coronavirus.

AYLMER, Ont. — The town of Aylmer, Ont., has declared a state of emergency ahead of a planned protest against COVID-19 restrictions on Saturday. Mayor Mary French moved the town of nearly 7,500 people to high alert on Monday afternoon.

TORONTO — A shortage of flu shots in Ontario is a sign that more people than ever are getting them, Premier Doug Ford said Monday, hours after a major pharmacy chain temporarily paused its vaccination program because of supply issues.

TORONTO — A group of 16 Canadian artists is getting behind a social media campaign to raise awareness of hand gestures that may be used by people experiencing abuse in the home.

TORONTO — Several teachers and support staff at an elementary school in Toronto's east end refused to go to work on Monday after 11 COVID-19 cases were reported at the facility, the Toronto District School Board said.

The Ontario government promised Monday to establish a new standard that would see nursing home residents receive an average of four hours of direct care every day, but critics said the province wasn't moving fast enough to implement the measure.

MONTREAL — Pandemic-related restrictions in place across much of the province must remain despite the risk they bring to people's mental health, Quebec Premier Francois Legault said Monday.