Author: The Canadian Press

MISSISSAUGA — Provincial police say two people are dead and three injured after a crash on Highway 401 in Mississauga. The crash occurred in the eastbound express lanes of the highway near Dixie Road shortly before 9 a.m. Wednesday. Police say a 53-year-old woman and an 80-year-old man, both from Cambridge, Ont., were pronounced dead […]

Hamilton city councillors have rejected a temporary pause on new data centres. The 10-6 vote against the proposed one-year pause comes as local lawmakers across Canada wrestle with the noise, energy and water concerns around a new wave of data centres powering the boom in artificial intelligence. If the data centre moratorium had been approved, […]

Forest fires in northwestern Ontario have devastated several communities, forcing widespread evacuations and destroying homes and buildings in one First Nation as harrowing wildfire videos and images emerge on social media. The fires have prompted evacuation orders for several communities, including Armstrong, Lac La Croix First Nation, Collins First Nation, Whitesand First Nation, Gull Bay […]

Smoke from northern Ontario wildfires turned Toronto’s skyline an eerie shade of orange Wednesday as air quality warnings across southern parts of the province raised health concerns and prompted outdoor event cancellations. Environment Canada’s air quality warnings stretched from Thunder Bay to Kingston and down to London as several First Nations communities in northwestern Ontario […]

Forest fires in northwestern Ontario have devastated several communities, forcing widespread evacuations and destroying homes and buildings in one First Nation as harrowing wildfire videos and images emerge on social media. The fires have prompted evacuation orders for several communities, including Armstrong, Lac La Croix First Nation, Collins First Nation, Whitesand First Nation, Gull Bay […]

TORONTO — A Hamilton man faces more than 100 charges stemming from a global investigation into the livestreamed sexual abuse of children. RCMP Cpl. Philippe Gravel says customers around the world paid to watch abuse in the Philippines unfold online and direct it in real time. Police allege the accused paid for and directed the […]

TORONTO — Many parts of Ontario, including the Greater Toronto Area, are under an Environment Canada air quality warning as smoke from wildfires in northwestern Ontario drift south. “Smoke from wildfires can have serious health consequences for those living nearby, but it can also affect the health of people living hundreds of kilometres away,” the […]

Forest fires in northwestern Ontario have devastated several communities, forcing widespread evacuations and destroying homes and buildings in one First Nation. The fires have prompted evacuation orders for several communities, including Armstrong, Lac La Croix First Nation, Collins First Nation, Whitesand First Nation, Gull Bay First Nation and Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation. Anishinabek […]

An Ontario Superior Court judge has handed down the maximum youth sentence of 10 years for a 15-year-old boy who pleaded guilty to murdering an elderly woman in Pickering, Ont., last year. The boy apologized in court on Tuesday for repeatedly stabbing Eleanor Doney, an 83-year-old grandmother and retired kindergarten teacher, in an unprovoked attack […]

Smoke from wildfires in northwestern Ontario is drifting south and choking the skies over Toronto and other regions. Environment Canada’s air quality warnings are active from Thunder Bay to Kingston and down to London as several First Nations communities in northwestern Ontario are under mandatory evacuation orders due to forest fires. Jean-Philippe Bégin, a meteorologist […]