TIMMINS, Ont. - Fingers are crossed that a shift in the weather will turn the tide in Timmins, where crews are battling a raging forest fire that's spewing smoke and ash toward the northern Ontario city.

Toronto's mayor had a close-up look at the underside of one of his city's major highways on Friday morning and said "everything is being done" to keep concrete chunks from falling on cars and pedestrians.

The family of a Toronto woman who died in pursuit of her lifelong dream to climb Mount Everest is asking the Canadian government for help in bringing her body back to Canada.

Halton Regional police say three people are in critical condition in hospital after a single-vehicle rolled over on a country road, early Friday morning.