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MISSISSAUGA — Police in Peel Region say a young boy was fatally struck by a GO train west of Toronto on Wednesday afternoon. It happened shortly before 3 p.m. at a train crossing near Alexandra Avenue and Fourth Street in Mississauga, Ont., and the incident halted train service in the area. Const. Tyler Bell-Morena told […]

Jennifer Pan has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2010 death of her mother, nearly a year after the Supreme Court of Canada ordered a new first-degree murder trial for the Markham, Ont., woman in a case that drew international attention and spawned a Netflix documentary. One of Pan’s lawyers, Breana Vandebeek, confirmed the plea […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say they have arrested and charged one of their own officers who allegedly accessed private police databases without authorization. Police allege Const. Abbas Popal accessed the databases several times between January 2024 and April 2025. They say the 25-year-old officer has been charged with unauthorized use of a computer and was […]

WASHINGTON — Trade talks with Canada ahead of the mandatory review of the continental trade pact are lagging behind those with Mexico, United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Wednesday. Greer told Fox Business that talks are moving ahead with his Mexican counterparts as the Trump administration negotiates changes to the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on […]

TORONTO — Calls for an Ontario judge to apologize for suggesting three Toronto police officers lied and colluded in a high-profile criminal trial are inappropriate and undermine public confidence in the justice system, some legal observers said Wednesday. The president of Toronto’s police union urged Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy to publicly apologize to […]

It only took two rounds of golf for Vancouver’s Leah John to have her “welcome to the LPGA Tour” moment. John had just finished playing in Blue Bay LPGA, the first tournament of her rookie season on the top-flight women’s golf circuit, when she got approached for an autograph. And another. And another. Although John […]

TORONTO — Police say a Hamilton man wanted for the shooting deaths of two people nearly a decade ago has been arrested in Mexico. Hamilton police say Daniel Mario Tomassetti has been taken into custody and efforts are underway to extradite him to Canada. Police had issued Canada-wide arrest warrants for Tomassetti and Michael Cudmore […]

The province’s police watchdog has cleared a Niagara police officer who shot and killed a man accused of murdering a woman and abducting a child last October. The director of the Special Investigations Unit says there are no reasonable grounds to charge the officer who killed 38-year-old Anthony Deschepper after an investigation found the suspect […]

A new report says charges were tossed or evidence was excluded from Ontario court proceedings hundreds of times over the past decade due to police officers in urban areas violating the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Report co-author Sunil Gurmukh, an adjunct law professor at Western University, says people accused of criminal offences are frequently […]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says a York Region resident who shot and injured an alleged home invader “should have shot him a couple more times.” York regional police say the resident used a legally owned and properly stored gun and is not facing charges based on evidence collected at the scene. A 24-year-old man who […]