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SAULT STE. MARIE — Sault Ste. Marie police say a man has been arrested after a crash between a pickup truck and an e-bike left one teenager dead and another seriously injured early Sunday morning. Police say officers responded to a crash in the city’s west end around 1 a.m. They allege an 18-year-old was […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s police watchdog says a man was seriously injured when two Toronto police officers fired their guns at him after a traffic stop in the city’s north end Sunday night. The Special Investigations Unit says the incident happened around 11 p.m. after an officer made a traffic stop near Bathurst Street and Sheppard […]

Canadians are reacting to Pope Francis’s death on Easter Monday, which came more than two months after he was hospitalized for a respiratory infection. Here’s what some notable Canadians have to say. “Pope Francis was a voice of moral clarity, spiritual courage, and boundless compassion. He was in many respects the world’s conscience — never […]

TORONTO — London Health Sciences Centre is the latest Canadian hospital to install a weapons detection system in its emergency department as health-care workers across the country continue to grapple with increasing violence. The southwestern Ontario health-care network started using one of the artificial intelligence-driven systems at its University Hospital site on April 15 and […]

ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE — How Canada prepares to win another Olympic gold medal in women’s hockey is going to be dramatically different. The six-team Professional Women’s Hockey League is now able to provide a lot of what Hockey Canada did, meaning women will not move to Calgary to spend half a year trying out for the […]

NESKANTAGA FIRST NATION, ONT. — A First Nation in northern Ontario that has been under a boil-water advisory for over 30 years is calling on all levels of government to respond to a state of emergency in the area, days after announcing it would evacuate community members hundreds of kilometres south to Thunder Bay. Chief […]

Police say a 39-year-old woman has died from injuries she suffered during a house fire in London, Ont., last week. The London Police Service says the blaze broke out in the home on Avalon Street around 3 p.m. Thursday. Officers arriving on the scene found the woman with life-threatening injuries and took her to hospital. […]

HAMILTON — Hamilton’s fire chief says an early-morning blaze currently considered suspicious has damaged multiple stores at a strip mall in the city. David Cunliffe issued a statement saying crews were called to the fire at the mall on Upper Ottawa Street shortly before 3 a.m. on Easter Sunday. He says the fire began in […]

MONTREAL — If it’s daytime, odds are a lone box truck is cruising the streets between Toronto and Brampton, Ont., with no one behind the wheel. Bristling with more than two dozen cameras, radars and “lidar” — a laser-based measurement of distance — the vehicle ferries groceries daily from an automated Loblaw Cos. Ltd. warehouse […]

SANDY — Theo Corbeanu scored his first Major League Soccer goal as Toronto FC defeated 10-man Real Salt Lake 1-0 Saturday for its first win of the season. The victory was also TFC’s first in Utah since July 2007. Real Salt Lake controlled play and did most of the attacking in the first half but […]