Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — The Ontario Science Centre is abruptly closing at the end of the day today, after engineers found structural issues with the roof. The news from provincial infrastructure officials comes amid plans from the government to move the science centre from its current home in east Toronto to a new location at Ontario Place […]

HARROW TOWNSHIP — The mayor of a southwestern Ontario town says a mother, father and two young children were the four people found dead at a home in the rural community of Harrow. Essex Mayor Sherry Bondy says the deaths have had a “huge impact” on the town because it is a small, tight-knit community […]

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators have signed forward Jamieson Rees to a one-year, two-way contract extension, the NHL team announced Friday. The contract carries a value of US$775,000 in the NHL and US$85,000 in the American Hockey League. The Senators acquired Rees from Carolina in March in exchange for a sixth-round pick at this year’s […]

VAUGHAN, Ont. — York Regional Police say they are investigating after one person died and three people were injured in a shooting in Vaughan, Ont. Police say officers responded to reports of gunshots in a home in the Woodbridge area just before 9 a.m. Friday. They say officers found four people with gunshot injuries in […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index fell in late-morning trading, weighed down by losses in the base metal stocks, while U.S. stock markets also pulled back. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 29.41 points at 21,551.94. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 18.26 points at 39,116.50. The S&P 500 index was […]

York Regional Police say they are looking for suspects after four people were injured in a shooting in Vaughan, Ont. Police say officers responded to reports of gunshots in a home in the Woodbridge area just before 9 a.m. Friday. They say officers found four people with gunshot injuries in the home. Police say two […]

HARROW TOWNSHIP — Police say they are investigating after four people were found dead at a rural home in southwestern Ontario. Ontario Provincial Police say the death investigation is in its early stages and they have released few details but say there’s no “imminent threat to public safety.” Police say officers were called to a […]

TORONTO — Police say they have charged a man with first-degree murder and are searching for an additional suspect after a shooting killed a teenage boy in east Toronto last weekend. Police say they responded to a report of a shooting following an altercation in the Scarborough area last Saturday shortly before 2 p.m. They […]

TORONTO — A Toronto detective is facing charges for the alleged workplace sexual assault and harassment of a number of his subordinates in cases spanning a three-year period. Toronto police say the 57-year-old detective’s alleged acts of harassment, sexual assault and sexual harassment against his subordinates took place between September 2020 and November 2023. Police […]

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says retail sales rose 0.7 per cent to $66.8 billion in April, helped by higher sales at gasoline stations as well as food and beverage retailers. The agency says sales were up in seven of the nine subsectors it tracks as sales at gasoline stations and fuel vendors gained 4.5 per […]