NEW TECUMSETH, Ont. – Police continue to investigate a motorcycle crash which killed one man and injured another in Simcoe County. Two motorcycles were struck by a vehicle on Highway 89 on Saturday afternoon. Ontario Provincial Police have now identified the 38-year-old motorcycle rider who died as Melvin Mejia from Bramton. The other bike rider
TORONTO – A motorcycle rider has been airlifted to hospital after the bike crashed just north of Toronto. Provincial police say the single-vehicle collision happened on a Highway 400 ramp near King Road in King Township. The southbound lanes were closed for an air ambulance to land. They have since re-opened.
KINGSVILLE, Ont. – Provincial police say a 56-year-old motorcycle driver is in hospital after being hit by a car in Kingsville in southwestern Ontario. Police say the Kingsville man was eastbound on County Road 50 around noon when he was struck by a car pulling out of a driveway. He was transported to hospital in
Canadian cities should be nimble and prioritize service if they want to sustain and strengthen public transit systems in a time of declining ridership and labour challenges, a transit researcher says. While cities like Montreal and Halifax are reducing bus routes to save money or deal with staff shortages, a transit and rail research consultant
A group of gifted Canadian elementary school students has made a discovery that’s out of this world — EpiPens don’t work in space. “It was pretty cool,” said student Hannah Thomson. “NASA didn’t know.”Hannah is one of several students in grades four to six at St. Brother Andre Elementary School in Ottawa who are part
Global National Calls are growing for greater transparency about the nature of the threat from foreign interference in Canada’s democratic process. Mercedes Stephenson has the newest report from senior public servants about foreign meddling, the pressure the federal government is facing, and Dawna Friesen looks at how Australia’s security chief is defining the threat, and
Global National As part of a NASA experiment, a group of elementary school students in Ottawa wanted to see what happens if an EpiPen was sent up to space. Would the device that treats potentially fatal allergies still work? Touria Izri explains how their findings not only surprised and impressed career scientists, but also have
Peel police have charged a man in connection to a collision that killed a 19-year-old motorcyclist in Mississauga Wednesday. Police says Kyle Sayani, 19, of Mississauga was travelling at a high speed down Mississauga Road at approximately 6:30 p.m. on his 2000 Honda CBR 600 motorcycle when he ended up in the oncoming lane and
NEWMARKET, Ont. – A Mississauga man faces charges in the death of an off-duty Toronto police officer in a collision last summer. Const. Riccardo Torchia, 30, was riding a motorcycle on Highway 7 near Highway 50 in Vaughan, just north of Toronto, when he was struck by a garbage truck turning left out of a
Toronto police say the number of people who died in traffic collisions is on the decline thanks to improved awareness, increased enforcement and better emergency medical treatment. Police said 35 people died in traffic accidents and collisions in the City of Toronto in 2011 – a 19 per cent decrease from the previous year. “While