Unpublished Newswire
Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating a multivehicle crash that left four people dead, including a baby, after officers pursued a robbery suspect driving in the wrong direction on the country’s busiest highway.The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) took over the probe into the fiery collision that killed a couple and their infant grandchild on Highway 401 in Whitby, east of Toronto, on Monday evening. The suspect was also killed.Audio recordings of police radio calls indicate the chaos on the highway in the moments before the crash. At one point, an Ontario Provincial Police officer...
April 30, 2024 - 20:23 | Jill Mahoney | The Globe and Mail
B.C. Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry is calling on communities to provide the missing supports that widespread public drug use exposed during decriminalization, including more safe consumption sites.Premier David Eby has asked Ottawa to effectively recriminalize possession and use of illicit drugs in public places, just 15 months into a three-year pilot project that was Canada’s first decriminalization trial. After defending the policy as a measure intended to save lives amid a toxic drug crisis that is killing an average of seven British Columbians each day, Mr. Eby retreated...
April 30, 2024 - 20:19 | Justine Hunter | The Globe and Mail
The province announced that BC Hydro will be investing into the program for the next five years, at $900,000 a year.
April 30, 2024 - 20:14 | Doyle Potenteau | Global News - Canada
Atlético Ottawa has signed Spanish defender Dani Morer on loan until the end of the Canadian Premier League season. Read More
April 30, 2024 - 20:11 | Tim Baines | Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa police are investigating a suspicious incident that occurred in Kanata on Monday. Read More
April 30, 2024 - 20:06 | Joanne Laucius | Ottawa Citizen
Health care stakeholders and an expert on privacy are criticizing a recent ruling that allows the government of Ontario to keep details of the province’s shortages of nurses, personal support workers and doctors confidential.
April 30, 2024 - 20:03 | Ha Tu Thanh | The Globe and Mail
