Don’t like the weather? Wait five minutes. It’s a common enough phrase during Alberta’s summer storm season, but this winter people across the province are also living through near-daily temperature swings ranging from bitterly cold to balmy and mild.An extreme cold warning was issued by Environment Canada for Monday and Tuesday, but it will be
KHERSON, Ukraine —The uniformed men burst into Olha Honchevskaya’s apartment on Aug. 4. There were 15 of them, from Russia’s interior ministry.Putting Honchevskaya and her husband Stanislav in separate rooms, the Russians questioned them and then took them to a detention centre.The prison had drab beige walls and corrugated carpets. In the cells, the windows
York Regional Police (YRP) have arrested and charged four people in connection with an investigation into the organized theft, re-vinning and trafficking of stolen vehicles at an auto shop in Vaughan. , A man has died after a collision in Scarborough on Tuesday. , Police say a teenager has died in a motorcycle crash in
The funeral for a 48-year-old Toronto police constable killed in the line of duty earlier this week in Mississauga will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 21. The service for Const. Andrew Hong, who was fatally shot in a GTA-wide shooting rampage on Monday afternoon that saw one other person killed and three others injured, will
The gunman in Monday afternoon’s shooting rampage spent more than two hours at a Mississauga Tim Hortons before murdering Const. Andrew Hong and investigators now say that they believe he was “looking for a police officer.” The detail was released during a news conference on Thursday morning as police formally identified 40-year-old Sean Petrie as
The body of slain Toronto police officer Const. Andrew Hong is now at a Richmond Hill funeral home. On Tuesday morning, Toronto police escorted a black hearse from the Forensic Services and Coroner’s Complex at Keele and Wilson streets in North York up to Richmond Hill’s Kane-Jarrett Funeral Home on Yonge Street, just south of
Dozens of mourners gathered in Mississauga today to pay their respects to the Milton father who was killed, along with a Toronto police officer, in a shooting rampage on Monday. The body of 38-year-old Shakeel Ashraf was brought to Jame Masjid Islamic Propagation Centre of Ontario in Mississauga at around noon on Wednesday. Family, friends
Kirstie Alley, the Emmy-winning actor best known for her breakout role in the hit sitcom Cheers, has died after a battle with cancer, her family announced Monday. She was 71. “She was surrounded by her closest family and fought with great strength, leaving us with a certainty of her never-ending joy of living and whatever
A passenger who fell from a cruise ship into the Gulf of Mexico late last month says he has no recollection of how he ended up in the water. James Michael Grimes, 28, said he spent a harrowing 15 to 20 hours treading water before he was rescued the day before American Thanksgiving.Grimes spoke with
