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Wildfires have forced more than 800 residents to evacuate their northwestern Ontario First Nation. Chief Waylon Scott of the Wabaseemoong Independent Nation, which sits about 100 kilometres northwest of Kenora near the Manitoba border, says rain and cooler temperatures have kept several fires at bay, but the blazes still pose a major threat. In a […]

TORONTO — Scott Laughton has crossed paths with Mark Scheifele through the years. As hockey players of the same Ontario vintage, they run in similar circles from time to time. Laughton, a Maple Leafs forward preparing for the biggest game of his life, was a huge Scheifele fan Saturday. He wasn’t alone. The Jets centre […]

TORONTO — Matthew Knies is good to go for Game 7. Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube confirmed following Sunday’s morning skate the big winger will suit up in his usual spot on Toronto’s top line in the winner-take-all finale against Florida. Knies took a reverse hit from Panthers defenceman Aaron Ekblad in the first […]

TORONTO — An early-morning crash has torn one family apart, Toronto police said Sunday as they announced three children had died in a collision allegedly caused by an impaired teen driver. Police revealed details at a news conference hours after the crash, which took place shortly after midnight at the eastbound offramp at Renforth Drive […]

MONTREAL — Quebec police say a man is facing second-degree murder charges after a woman was killed at a home on Friday in the Laurentian town of Lachute. Police say emergency crews were called around 2:30 p.m. on Friday to Saint-Exupéry Street in Lachute, where they detained a man on private property that was not […]

TORONTO — Police in Toronto say three children are dead after a suspected impaired driving crash near Toronto Pearson International Airport. Police say the crash happened just after midnight on Sunday on the eastbound offramp at Renforth Drive and Highway 401, when a stopped vehicle with six people in it was hit by another vehicle. […]

TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY — Ontario Provincial Police say they are investigating after human remains were found in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, located on the Bay of Quinte. Police say shortly before 3 p.m. on Saturday officers responded to the discovery of human remains near Highway 49 between Old Highway 2 and Lower Slash Road. They say […]

KINGSTON — Kingston police say they are investigating a potential act of intimate partner violence after arresting a man who is alleged to have killed a woman. Police say they responded to a home in the city’s west end on Friday afternoon after a report of a disturbance. They say a male suspect had barricaded […]

NANAIMO — Students at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, B.C., are busy in the kitchen assembling the world’s largest Nanaimo bar. The sweet treat will be unveiled to the public at noon on Saturday, and is expected to be 21.3 meters long, 0.9 meters wide and weigh nearly 500 kilograms. Aron Weber, chair of the […]

Bruce Davidson remembers the E. coli outbreak that ravaged his hometown 25 years ago as a “strange dream.” The hospital in the small Ontario community of Walkerton usually wasn’t busy but it suddenly got inundated with patients experiencing severe diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal pain. The first cases were reported on May 17, 2000. Soon, the […]