York Region

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 […]

VICTORIA — British Columbia Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says the province is sending almost 100 wildland firefighters to Ontario, where fires have been threatening several communities near the Manitoba border. Parmar says the deployment comes after B.C. sent 42 firefighters to Manitoba, where a blaze in the Rural Municipality of Lac du Bonnet this week […]

TORONTO — An Ontario judge has ruled that repeated strip searches of teen girls accused in the fatal swarming of a homeless Toronto man were unconstitutional. Four of the eight girls accused in the attack on 59-year-old Kenneth Lee in downtown Toronto two years ago sought to have the charges against them stayed before their […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s budget says it is increasing funding for the autism program to $779 million this year, but advocates say it’s not yet clear exactly where that money will go. Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy’s budget, tabled Thursday, contains two lines on the Ontario Autism Program, including touting the new funding. Children, Community and Social […]