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TORONTO — Maxim Massé was announced as the Canadian Hockey League’s David Branch Player of the Year at Monday’s awards. The 20-year-old winger for the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League’s Chicoutimi Saguenéens topped the circuit with 102 points (51 goals, 51 assists) in 63 games, helping his team win its first title in more than […]

LONDON — Police in London, Ont., say a woman has been charged with criminal negligence after she allegedly drove a car into the wall of a shopping mall gym last Friday and injured six people inside. Police say one person was pinned under the car after it slammed through a brick wall at Sherwood Forest […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s police watchdog says a 26-year-old man was seriously injured when he was shot by police with a bean bag round fired from a “less-lethal” shotgun at a Toronto hospital. The Special Investigations Unit says the man was allegedly brandishing a “sharp-edged weapon.” The SIU says officers were called at 10:30 a.m. Sunday […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say an officer was hit by a vehicle and injured during an early-morning car theft investigation. Ontario’s police watchdog has also been called in to investigate after police say officers fired at the vehicle before the driver fled the scene and was later tracked down. Both the officer and the driver […]

MISSISSAUGA — The funeral for Ontario Provincial Police Const. Tarun Bali, who was killed last week, has been scheduled. Bali, who was 29, was struck by a vehicle in the northern Ontario town of Hearst, about 520 kilometres east of Thunder Bay, as officers carried out an investigation. Police say in a news release that […]

TORONTO — Brayden Fisher was in a familiar spot for the Blue Jays. Top of the ninth. A runner on base. Tie game. One of the Yankees’ power hitters at the plate. Less than 24 hours after Toronto closer Louis Varland gave up a two-run home run for the winning margin in New York’s 3-1 […]

TORONTO — Ben Rice hit a two-run home run in the top of the ninth inning before Jose Caballero added a three-run bomb as the New York Yankees topped the Toronto Blue Jays 8-3 on Sunday afternoon. Anthony Volpe drove in two runs and scored another for New York (43-27), which picked up its second […]

Six people remained in hospital Sunday following a rural Ontario crash that killed five children on Friday, police say. Investigators say an infant, the children’s parents and two older adults believed to be the children’s grandparents were among those hurt after a van carrying 10 people and an SUV collided. Ontario Provincial Police say the […]

TORONTO — A procession will bring the body of Toronto Const. Marc Pinizzotto, who was killed in the line of duty last week, to a funeral home in Thornhill. Pinizzotto was fatally shot at an apartment building on Martha Eaton Way on Thursday while investigating multiple shootings, including one at the U.S. Consulate in March. […]

A rural Ontario community is dealing with the grief of a deadly crash, and the province’s police force is preparing a new safety blitz. The Perth County detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police says it is set to kick off a new public awareness campaign next week, highlighting the dangers present at intersections. It says […]