TORONTO—Ontario concert venue owners are being dealt another COVID-19 setback after the provincial government outlawed live streaming shows for the second time this year. The latest measures in Doug Ford’s “emergency brake” plan, introduced last Thursday, prohibit virtual concerts from taking place over the next four weeks in local venues—an effort to slow the spread…

BARRIE, Ont.—A long-term care home in Barrie, Ont., says a COVID-19 outbreak that killed 70 of its residents has been declared over. Jarlette Health Services, which owns the Roberta Place nursing home, says the local health unit declared the outbreak over on Thursday. The outbreak, which involved cases of the COVID-19 variant first detected in…

TORONTO—More of Ontario’s schools are reopening for in-person learning today. Students in 13 public health units, including Hamilton and Windsor, will return to physical classrooms. But in three COVID-19 hot spots—Toronto, Peel, and York Region—schools will remain closed until Feb. 16. All students in Ontario began January with online learning as part of a provincial…

Ontario faced a shortage of personal protective equipment at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in part because it did not replenish its stockpiles over the previous years, an independent commission examining the impact of the health crisis on long-term care has heard. Ontario’s former deputy minister of health and long-term care, Bob Bell, told…