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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 […]

BARRIE — Kashawn Aitcheson scored 9:57 into overtime to lift the Barrie Colts to a pivotal 2-1 Ontario Hockey League playoff victory over the visiting Kingston Frontenacs on Saturday night at Sadlon Arena. Dalyn Wakely also scored for the Colts, who grabbed a 3-2 lead in the second-round, best-of-seven series. Game 6 is Sunday in […]

TORONTO — After Randy Arozarena’s bases-loaded single, Rowdy Tellez smashed a two-out grand slam to push the Seattle Mariners to an 8-4 win in 12 innings against the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday. Arozarena’s hit to right field and 430-foot blast from Tellez off reliever Jacob Barnes (0-1) tied the three-game series with the rubber […]

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals and NDP both released their costed campaign platforms Saturday as Elections Canada reported record turnout in the first day of advanced polls. Nearly two million people showed up to cast a ballot on Friday, the first of four days for advanced voting in the federal election. Elections Canada said in […]