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One woman is dead following a collision between a passenger vehicle and a school bus in Thunder Bay on Thursday morning. No students on the school bus were injured in the collision, which occurred in the 1500 block of Oliver Road, west of Belrose Road, shortly after 8 a.m. ET. The bus was on its…
Provincial police say a driver involved in a collision in Lambton County, west of London, Ont., on Tuesday had died in hospital. Emergency crews were called to the two-vehicle crash just before 1 p.m. on Egremont Road in Warwick Township. One person was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. The other driver did not sustain any injuries, police…
A daycare employee has been arrested and charged after allegedly choking and assaulting a young child in Niagara Falls, police say. A 26-year-old man who worked at Way To Grow Daycare was charged with aggravated assault on Tuesday, says the Niagara Regional Police Service in a news release. On Friday at around 1:33 p.m., detectives began investigating the…
Ontario’s police watchdog has cleared London police officers of any wrongdoing in two separate investigations into suspects who were injured during their arrests in May. The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) found no reasonable grounds to believe the officers caused a 32-year-old man to have fractures in his right heel and a 38-year-old man to break his nose, director…
An on-board fire, a lost propeller, and a collision with a wharf have a marine engineer at Dalhousie University wondering what the federal government is doing to ensure that Canada’s ferries are safe. Two of these acccidents happened this month. The Queen of New Westminster, which connects Vancouver Island to B.C.’s mainland, was pulled from service in…
A boy is in hospital with serious, life-threatening injuries and a 39-year-old woman from Woolwich Township has been arrested for attempted murder, police say. Officers were called to a home in St. Jacobs Monday at 7:30 p.m. for a wellness check. When they arrived, they found the child with the injuries. He was taken to an…
A motorcyclist has died from his injuries following a collision with a car near Winchester on Friday morning, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said Monday. Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry OPP said the collision happened shortly after 6 a.m. Friday on Bank Street near Cloverdale Road, northwest of Winchester. Both vehicles were northbound at the time of the crash….
The B.C. government has announced it will expand involuntary care for those with mental health and addictions issues, and will open “highly secure” facilities to house people detained under the Mental Health Act throughout the province. Premier David Eby announced Sunday that the government would open mental health units at correctional facilities throughout the province,…
Police maintained a cordon Sunday around the Kingston encampment where two people were killed and a third critically injured three days earlier, as local advocates called for the encampment’s residents to be allowed to access their belongings. Some residents of the encampment were sleeping on the ground outside the police barricade, community volunteer Michelle Schwarz told…
Interest has been milder than expected for the beer and coolers lining a fridge of Mike Ayoub’s convenience store, but the longtime London shop owner says he anticipates sales will only pick up as word of mouth spreads. “People are very excited. I don’t know why,” said Ayoub, himself a non-drinker. “I was very skeptical before,…
