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TORONTO — The province must offer financial relief to child-care providers across Ontario to ensure none close as a result of COVID-19, a coalition of advocates said Thursday, warning many centres won't be able to pay their bills as the pandemic drag

TORONTO — Mirvish Productions is delaying the opening of a Canadian production of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" due to the COVID-19 crisis.

TORONTO — Ontario has made a regulatory change that will more easily allow auto insurance companies to provide breaks to their customers because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

TORONTO — Ontario expanded its priority COVID-19 testing Thursday to include essential workers, residents and staff of homeless shelters and group homes, and people living with health-care workers.

TORONTO — Doug Flutie can feel CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie's pain. Ambrosie continues to discuss potential contingency plans for the 2020 CFL season in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

TORONTO — Former Blue Jays executive Pat Gillick remembers former Toronto second baseman Damaso Garcia as a "very good player and a very good person.

TORONTO — Alessia Cara is a big believer in the "Fake it 'til you make it" mantra — and for good reason. Ever since she was young, the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter from Brampton, Ont.

TORONTO — This weekend was to have been Sonny Bill Williams' coming-out party in Toronto, with the former All Blacks star slated to make his Canadian debut for the Wolfpack before an expected sellout at Lamport Stadium.

It will air Saturday evening

TORONTO — The union representing Toronto's public transit workers wants them to be given protective gear, the lack of which prompted dozens of drivers to refuse to work recently.