Ontario musician and former Canadian Idol contestant Vincent Benenati, 32, hopes that a trial drug might help save his life after he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Benenati entertained millions on the 2005 season of the show, but his music dreams have been put on hold after he was diagnosed with a
Three weeks before Canada’s 2019 federal election, national security officials allegedly gave an urgent, classified briefing to senior aides from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office, warning them that one of their candidates was part of a Chinese foreign interference network.According to sources, the candidate in question was Han Dong, then a former Ontario MPP whom
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre denounced a German politician after several Tory MPs were criticized for meeting with her while she was in Canada this week. Read more: How close is too close to the far-right? Why some experts are worried about Canada’s MPs Read next: ‘We kind
Russians in Moscow and other cities brought flowers to Ukrainian poets and held one-person pickets with antiwar slogans Friday to mark the first anniversary of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian media and civil rights groups reported at least a dozen detentions, part of the Kremlin’s sweeping crackdown on dissent that has spiked to unprecedented levels
OSHAWA, Ont. — Durham Region police say a man riding a noisy homemade motorcycle on an Oshawa sidewalk led an officer on a chase after he tried to pull the machine over. Police say the officer spotted a man driving a small and extremely loud, homemade chopper-style motorcycle on a city sidewalk Tuesday afternoon. It’s
A motorcyclist is dead after crashing into a pole near Jane Street and Corbett Avenue on Friday afternoon, police say. Police were called to the scene shortly before 3 p.m. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of the accident is still unknown. Jane Street is closed between Corbett Avenue and Foxwell
Ontario’s police watchdog has concluded there are no reasonable grounds to lay charges against a Barrie police officer after a collision involving a motorcyclist last month. The Special Investigations Unit says the officer had believed the way was clear when he made a left turn on a yellow light in Barrie on Aug. 21. The
A fatal motorcycle crash closed the Gardiner Expressway along Toronto’s lakeshore early Friday morning. Toronto police said a man riding a motorcycle in the Gardiner’s eastbound lanes near the Humber River lost control of his vehicle and struck the centre barrier at about 1 a.m. Const. Clint Stibbe said the rider was ejected off his
A man riding a motorcycle died after colliding with a pickup truck, Tuesday morning. Toronto police said the motorcycle struck a westbound Ford F-150 in the intersection of Glengrove and Marlee Avenues, south of Lawrence Avenue West, shortly before 9 a.m. The motorcycle driver was pronounced dead at the scene. There is no traffic light
