A jury has found a 19-year-old man guilty of first-degree murder in connection with the death of a York Regional Police officer during a traffic stop four years ago. The teen, who was 15 at the time, was pulled over by Const. Garrett Styles along Highway 48 in Newmarket onRead More

MASSENA, N.Y. — Authorities say 30 people were injured when a cruise ship crashed into a wall in a lock on the St. Lawrence Seaway last night. The U.S. Coast Guard says the Saint Laurent was headed from Montreal to Toronto when it hit a wall in the Eisenhower LockRead More

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is reportedly set to make a major transit-related announcement in Toronto Thursday afternoon. Harper will be joined by Finance Minister Joe Oliver and Mayor John Tory for the announcement, which will be made at the TTC’s Hillcrest Complex, located at 1138 Bathurst Street. Citing a seniorRead More

Alok Mukherjee says he will resign as chair of the Toronto Police Services Board as of Aug. 1. Mukherjee made the announcement at the beginning of the Toronto Police Services Board meeting on Thursday morning. “The time has come to move on. There are other projects that I have shelvedRead More

OTTAWA – A controversial Conservative senator has been expelled from his party’s caucus in the wake of a media report that he was having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl. An official in the Prime Minister’s Office says Sen. Don Meredith is no longer a member of the ToryRead More

Ottawa police say six people suffered “serious medical complications” after taking a drug being sold as crack cocaine on Wednesday night in the downtown area. Police say unidentified chemicals were reportedly added to the drug and an analysis would be conducted to determine what they are. Acting Duty Insp. MarkRead More

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau wants this fall’s national vote to be the last federal election conducted under the first-past-the-post electoral system. And, if the Liberal leader becomes prime minister, it may also be the last election in which Canadians can choose not to vote, as well as the last inRead More

Toronto: York Regional Police say at least seven people have been bilked out of a total of $1.5 million in connection with a “romance fraud” investigation that began last summer. In July 2014, the police service’s major fraud unit was approached by a woman who said that she had beenRead More

OTTAWA — The last time U2 frontman Bono was in Ottawa for a political visit, his duet with Alicia Keys of the Peter Gabriel song “Don’t Give Up (Africa)” was on the charts. This afternoon, he’ll be in the nation’s capital once again, this time for a meeting with PrimeRead More

OTTAWA – Amanda Lindhout crumpled to the floor, crying, as RCMP investigators broke the news to her on Thursday about the arrest of her alleged Somalian kidnapper. One officer who had stuck with the case over the past five years asked her “Are you sitting down?,” Lindhout recalled Sunday onRead More