Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Ontario’s police watchdog says it’s investigating the death of a man who was tasered and handcuffed by Toronto police officers on Sunday. The Special Investigations Unit says officers responded to a house in the area of Keele Street and Finch Avenue West in North York at around 5:40 p.m. The SIU says the […]

VAUGHAN — York Regional Police are looking into three separate shootings in Vaughan, where houses were targeted over the weekend. Police say they were called in for a report of a shooting Saturday morning at a residence on Farrell Road and Via Romano Boulevard, where a man was seen firing multiple shots at a house. […]

Toronto Police say they are investigating a vandalized speed camera on Parkside Drive, which was cut down for the seventh time in recent months. Officers say they received a report of vandalism on Sunday morning and suspect that it occurred overnight. They say it’s a mischief investigation. Faraz Gholizadeh, co-chair of the community group Safe […]

MONTREAL — The first time Ken Dryden walked into the Montreal Canadiens’ locker room in 1971, his teammates immediately knew he was different. “We looked at him and we thought he was coming from another planet,” recalled his defenceman Serge Savard in an interview on Saturday. “We didn’t see hockey players coming into the dressing […]

LONDON — Canadian Olivia Smith lived up to her one-million-pound ($1.9 million) transfer fee with a spectacular goal Saturday in her debut for Arsenal. The 21-year-old from Whitby, Ont., opened the scoring for Arsenal in a 4-1 win over the London City Lionesses, dribbling past a defender before hammering a right-footed shot from outside the […]

TORONTO — When news broke last year that a security guard had been shot outside Drake’s Toronto mansion, local TV crews rushed to the scene. So did Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol — but not to report on it. The Canadian duo arrived with their own cameras rolling, ready to turn the real-life chaos into […]

TORONTO — Toronto Police say they’re investigating a homicide after officers located a woman with injuries on Friday. Police say officers responded to a medical call at about 5:50 p.m. in the Glenlake Ave and High Park Ave area. Officers say they found a woman with injuries in a vehicle and she was transported to […]

The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) has concluded there was no wrongdoing in an Aug. 4 race at Fort Erie Racetrack where a favourite led at the top of the stretch before losing at the wire. The ACGO informed Fort Erie it was reviewing the race after Princess O Denmark, the 6-5 favourite, […]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government will introduce legislation this fall to strengthen dangerous driving laws in honour of a father of three who was killed last month by an alleged dangerous driver. Andrew Cristillo, 35, was killed Aug. 3 in a head-on crash in Whitchurch-Stouffville that also left his wife and […]

An Ontario family is calling for changes to the criminal justice system to keep repeat offenders behind bars after one of its members was allegedly shot and injured by a 12-year-old boy who was out on bail. York Region police say the youth was arrested Tuesday and charged with attempted murder, among other offences, in […]