A 32-year-old Toronto man has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of Mohamed Asser. Police were called to a nightclub on Nugget Avenue, near McCowan Road and Sheppard Avenue East, just before 4 a.m. on December 13. Police located Asser suffering from a life-threatening gunshot wound. He was transported...
B.C. is on track to lift more COVID-19 health restrictions on June 15, says deputy provincial health officer Dr. Réka Gustafson. That's the government's target date for entering Step 2 of its restart plan, which is expected to include opening up travel throughout the province and expanding the number of...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is scheduled to make his first announcement of the year this afternoon. At his Toronto news conference, the premier will be joined by Minister of Health Christine Elliott and Solicitor General Sylvia Jones. Wednesday’s news conference marks the first time the premier has spoken publicly in 2021....
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling on the committee of parliamentarians that reviews matters of national security and the national intelligence watchdog to independently investigate concerns about foreign interference in Canada. The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians will launch a new study on foreign interference focused on elections. The...
Another four Manitobans have died of COVID-19 as Manitoba health officials continue to report double-digit case numbers. Announced in the province's daily COVID-19 bulletin on Sunday, all of the deaths are from the Winnipeg region. Three men, one in his 70s, one in his 90s and one in his 100s, died...
A 59-year-old man is missing and presumed drowned and a woman is stable in hospital after she was found in the water near a vessel off the coast of Nanaimo Monday night, according to RCMP. Authorities received a 911 call reporting a woman in the water near a boat between...
There are no new COVID-19 cases in Nova Scotia, the Health Department reported Thursday. The number of active cases remains at six, including a Universite Sainte-Anne student in Church Point, Digby County. That student did not self-isolate but the university has said the risk of exposure on the campus is...
Electric-vehicle batteries, mattresses, single-use fuel canisters, fire extinguishers and more electronic products such as solar panels and e-cigarettes are going to be added to the province-wide recycling list. The expanded list of recyclable items is part of a five-year plan to advance recycling in BC through the Recycling Regulation and...
Updated Jan. 17 at 3:39 p.m.: The Ontario Provincial Police have confirmed the body recovered from Elbow Lake near Estaire this afternoon is that of missing snowmobiler Ronald Nantais. The 53-year-old was last seen at 6 p.m. on Jan. 14 before departing on his snowmachine, a black and white 2017...
A two-alarm fire in the northwest Calgary community of Beddington Heights displaced six residents Sunday. Fire crews were dispatched to the blaze on the 8300 block of Centre Street N.W. just before noon Sunday. There, they found one home fully engulfed in flames with a neighbour’s home threatened by the...