The city is adding some more road closures to the tally, including along King Street for the ongoing project involving watermain and TTC streetcar track replacement. Kayla McLean reports on how this will affect traffic in Toronto.
TORONTO — The two grandparents killed along with their infant grandson in a wrong-way highway crash with a van being chased by police were visiting from India, Ontario's police watchdog said Thursday, while the baby's parents were also in the car but survived. The Special Investigations Unit said the three-month-old boy's father and mother were treated in hospital after Monday's crash. The watchdog said the 27-year-old mother was treated for serious injuries but offered no further details about
A police radio recording is providing a glimpse into the moments leading up to a fiery wrong-way crash that killed four people east of Toronto on Monday.
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Investigators from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada were in St. John's, N.L., Wednesday after a plane overshot the main runway at the city's airport. PAL Airlines confirmed the turboprop plane involved was chartered from the company, and that it went slightly beyond the runway during a landing, before it came to a stop. "The PAL team met the flight, passengers disembarked the aircraft and went to our charter facility to meet their awaiting ground transportation," spok
Tesla has reportedly pulled back on plans to develop a new "gigacasting" method that's intended to simplify manufacturing and cut costs.
Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has released more information about Monday's crash that killed four people, including a three-month-old boy, after police chased a suspect through oncoming traffic on Highway 401 east of Toronto.
Police were "shocked" to find a driver and passenger without seatbelts, despite the latter also having a one-year-old child in her lap. Lancashire Road Police described how a traffic officer in a fully marked car was stopped at a red traffic light in Blackburn on Monday when they noticed the car next to them had an empty car seat. The rear seat passenger had a toddler lying on her lap.
This is the second Boeing whistleblower to die in the last two months.
As of Wednesday, Saskatchewan drivers caught stunting or street racing will lose their licence for a week and their vehicle for a month.The penalties also apply to drivers who travel at twice the speed limit or exceed it by more than 50 km/h.The measures are on top of increased fines that date back to October 2022, when tickets for stunting and street racing — previously at $150 and $205, respectively — increased to $580.Subsequent tickets for street racing within a one-year period increase to $
Careful car buyers spend plenty of time budgeting for the purchase -- how much they can afford to spend, put down and finance, and what kind of monthly payment they can tolerate. But even the most...
RICHMOND, B.C. — A Transportation Safety Board report says experience, recent training and safety equipment were key factors in a pilot surviving the crash of a firefighting plane south of Cranbrook in August 2022. The report says the pilot was alone in the Air Tractor AT-802A aircraft and had just finished his eighth water drop when the engine suddenly lost power, with no time to recover because of the low altitude. The report says the pilot couldn't quickly diagnose the problem, so focused ins
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Employees at Canada's two biggest railways have authorized a strike that could see thousands of workers walk off the job in three weeks if they are unable to reach new deals on contract demands. About 6,000 employees at Canadian National Railway Co. and 3,300 at Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. voted more than 97 per cent in favour of a strike mandate this week, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference said Wednesday. “After six months of negotiations with both companies, we are no closer to reachi
When pondering what’s really happening with the auto industry’s shift to electric vehicles, it’s important to remember that two things – two very different things – can be true at the same time.
Italdesign Quintessenza is part GT, part pickup, tons of tech, all EV, and quick, too. A 150-kWh battery and 778 hp get the concept from 0-62 in 3 seconds.
Taxi driver Shakoor Ahmed has been jailed for killing pedestrian Dan Beames.
Two grandparents and their infant grandchild were killed on a busy stretch of Highway 401 on Monday night after a van being chased by police east of Toronto crashed while going the wrong way, causing a multi-vehicle collision. The crash – which also left the person in the suspect van dead – raised questions about the police pursuit that had been triggered by an alleged liquor store robbery, as Ontario's police watchdog began its investigation into what happened. "It was a really big collision sc
A former dive boat captain could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison Thursday on a negligence conviction known as “seaman’s manslaughter,” after 34 people were killed in a fire that broke out on his dive boat in 2019.
Tesla has backed away from an ambitious plan for innovations in gigacasting, its pioneering manufacturing process, according to two sources familiar with the matter, in another sign that the electric-vehicle maker is retrenching amid falling sales and rising competition. Tesla has been a leader in gigacasting, a cutting-edge technique that uses huge presses with thousands of tons of clamping pressure to die-cast large sections of the car’s underbody. Last year, as Tesla developed a new small-vehicle platform, it aimed to punch out the underbody in a single piece, Reuters exclusively reported last September, citing five sources familiar with the automaker’s gigacasting operations.
We drive the 2024 Chevy Traverse three-row SUV off-road in the new Z71 trim, and on road in the line-topping RS — a big step up from the last generation.
“All I thought about was them at peace,” the California girl’s mother told news outlets of the driver’s conviction.
