The Canadian Press

A COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer has arrived in Ontario and Quebec, with the first inoculations scheduled to happen on Monday morning in Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City.

TORONTO - Ontario will administer the province's first COVID-19 vaccination today, with a health-care worker set to receive the dose in Toronto.

Premier Doug Ford's office has said the first shots will be administered at the University Health Network.

THUNDER BAY, Ont. - A verdict is expected today in the manslaughter trial of a man who threw a trailer hitch at an Indigenous woman in Thunder Bay, Ont.

The trial surrounding the death of Barbara Kentner in Thunder Bay, Ont., took place last month.

Kentner died in July 2017, months after she suffered internal injuries from a trailer hitch thrown from a moving vehicle.

OTTAWA - Canada's foreign aid budget is swelling noticeably today with International Development Minister Karina Gould's announcement of $485 million in new funding towards the global effort to provide COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries.

TORONTO - Another 16 people in Ontario have succumbed to the ravages of COVID-19, 10 of them residents of nursing homes, provincial authorities reported on Sunday.

The province has now had almost 4,000 people die from the novel coronavirus, data show.

China's Foreign Ministry said Thursday that two Canadians held for two years in a case linked to a Huawei executive have been indicted and put on trial, but gave no details.

Ontario is reporting a record 1,983 new cases of COVID-19 today, and 35 new deaths due to the virus.

Health Minister Christine Elliott says 515 cases are in Peel Region, 496 in Toronto, and 208 in York Region.

In the province's long-term care homes, 623 residents currently have COVID-19 and 24 new deaths have been reported today.

OTTAWA - Lynn Beyak, the senator who posted derogatory letters about Indigenous people on her website, once again faces the prospect of expulsion from the Senate.

The Senate's ethics committee recommended in June that Beyak's one-year suspension from the upper house be lifted because she had taken anti-racism training and apologized for posting the letters.

TORONTO–A psychiatrist retained by the defence is set to testify for the seventh straight day at the trial for the man who killed 10 people on a Toronto sidewalk with a rental van.

TORONTO - Pandemic restrictions and financial strain mean Christmas will look different than past years for Tia Cyr and her family, so she enlisted Santa in breaking the news to her son.