Via Rail plans to resume trains on its Toronto-Ottawa and Toronto-Montreal routes Tuesday, the rail service said days after a CN train derailment forced the cancellation of those trains scheduled for Christmas and Boxing Day. CN confirmed in a statement that the tracks where its train derailed on Christmas Eve will be reopened Tuesday and
Motorcycle accident toronto today Hour at 6 Two men who survived a deadly Christmas Eve bus rollover on the Okanagan Connector are sharing their harrowing ordeal. Like many others, the pair booked a road trip after their flights were cancelled during last week’s winter weather chaos but as Kristen Robinson reports, they’re now wondering why the highway
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday announced the country’s biggest military build-up since World War Two with a $320 billion plan that will buy missiles capable of striking China and ready it for sustained conflict, as regional tensions and Russia’s Ukraine invasion stoke war fears. His government worries that Russia has set a precedent
Fifteen people are facing close to 200 charges in a police probe targeting biker gang members who trafficked in drugs and persons in several Ontario cities. OPP Supt. Bryan MacKillop said that his service and police in Ottawa, Niagara Region and Sudbury started investigating a group in June 2018, based on the suspicion that they
A motorcyclist has died in hospital after a two-vehicle collision in North York on Monday afternoon. Emergency crews were called in the area of Steeles Avenue and Bluffwood Driver, just west of Leslie Street for reports of a crash involving a motorcycle and a car. Police said the motorcyclist was thrown from his bike when
York Regional police have identified the victim who was fatally shot in a Markham strip mall on Thursday evening. Police were called just after 11 p.m. to a restaurant at 5460 Highway 7 East for multiple reports of sound of gunshots. When officers arrived, they located a man and a woman suffering from gunshot wounds.
A 29-year-old man is dead after his motorcycle collided with a van in Rexdale late Friday night. Police say that the man was headed southbound on Islington Avenue near Beaumonde Heights Drive at around 10:35 p.m. when the collision took place. The man was rushed to hospital with critical injuries but succumbed to his injuries
A man is dead and a woman is in critical condition in hospital following a double shooting at a Markham strip mall late Thursday night. Police were called to the plaza located near Laidlaw Boulevard and Highway 7 just after 11 p.m. for multiple reports of the sound of gunshots. Once on scene, officers located
Seventy-one Chinese air force aircraft including fighter jets and drones entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone in the past 24 hours, the island’s government said on Monday, the largest reported incursion to date. Of the aircraft, 43 also crossed the Taiwan Strait’s median line, an unofficial buffer between the two sides that lies within the
