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Ontarians will head to the polls on June 2 to cast their vote on election day. As Matthew Bingley reports, Ontario’s political leaders are keen to make one last impression on voters as they enter their final week of campaigning.
A man shot dead by police after reports of a person with a rifle forced several schools into lockdown in Toronto Thursday in fact had a pellet gun, Ontario's police watchdog says. The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) also says the man was 27. The watchdog agency said Friday that police were called to the scene just before 1 p.m. and located the man about 20 minutes later. He was pronounced dead at about 1:40 p.m. Toronto Police Chief James Ramer said officers were called to the Port Union area
Police in St. John's say a string of violent offences involving guns and knives are connected to a "criminal network," and that one arrest has been made. The saga goes back to at least May 13, when two men in ski masks jumped out of a gold Toyota sedan and opened fire on a parked vehicle on Galway Boulevard in St. John's. Nobody was reported injured. Eight days later, on May 21, a 22-year-old man from Paradise was stabbed on George Street in downtown St. John's. About three hours after that, som
When Violet Soosay's aunt went missing in 1979, she made a promise to her grandmother that she would find her daughter and bring her home. Decades later, she is finally fulfilling that promise. Shirley Soosay's remains are being flown from California to Alberta on Thursday, arriving at the Edmonton International Airport in the afternoon. "Once that is complete, I know that the weight of the world will be off of my shoulders," Violet Soosay told CBC News. The homecoming marks the end of her famil
New off-Broadway musical "Suffs" - based on the American suffragists of the early 20th century - introduces sold out crowds to real-life American women who fought for a woman's right to vote, including Alice Paul, Ida B. Wells and Carrie Chapman Catt. (May 26)
The Government of Nunavut is once again offering the Respiratory Syncytial Virus vaccines to infants with certain pre-existing health conditions. This comes as the territory announced in a news release there has been an increase in respiratory infections caused by Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and influenza. RSV is a contagious infection that attacks the respiratory tract. The Nunavut government announced in the release it was immediately restarting its Palivizumab program — the RSV vaccine
24-year-old Ajax Seminary student Maryanne Oketch became the second Canadian woman in a row to win the coveted title of Survivor. As Kayla McLean reports, she has won a cash prize of $1M.
Ray Coombs watched the Hay River arrive at his homestead "like a big tidal wave" of water and ice. "It was really surreal what happened," he told CBC's Loren McGinnis. "And then it seemed like the perfect storm. "I could hear crackling like a major forest fire — that was the trees snapping off and I could see in behind the house, like a big tidal wave coming of water and ice. And it just rose up about two more feet and a wave was coming through our yard." Flooding from the Hay River overwhelmed
A Texas law enforcement official says the 18-year-old gunman who slaughtered 21 people at an elementary school entered the building "unobstructed' (May 26)
The mother of a teenage gunman who shot and killed 21 people at a Texas elementary school is apologizing on behalf of her son and begging victims to forgive her. Adriana Martínez Reyes was emotional during her first public comments. (May 27)
Calgary could soon join the ranks of Alberta municipalities that restrict smoking and vaping in public parks. A city council committee supported a plan Friday to ban smoking and vaping in city parks and along its pathways, starting Aug. 1. City council will discuss the plan next month. If approved, smoking and vaping will no longer be permitted in the city's parks and pathway system, except in designated areas during festivals and events. Coun. Gian-Carlo Carra says he supports the change and ho
A Calgary man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for terrorism offences, including kidnapping, committed during a year-long stint fighting as a trained sniper with ISIS in Syria. Last month, Hussein Sobhe Borhot, 36, pleaded guilty to participating in terrorist activities outside Canada and committing a crime at the direction of a terrorist organization. On Thursday, Court of Queen's Bench Justice David Labrenz accepted a joint submission proposed by prosecutor Kent Brown and defence lawye
Its bright green roof has always made Bishop James Mahoney Catholic High School in Saskatoon easy to spot. Now the school is turning heads for a different reason: a giant flower on its lawn. The five-metre tall flower made of cement, metal, and silicon is called a Smartflower. Its petals are solar panels that draw energy from the sun and feed it into the school through a microgrid. A microgrid is a type of electrical grid that only holds a small amount of power compared to the grids that power t
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Many voters in heavily Democratic Los Angeles are seething over rising crime and homelessness and that could prompt the city to take a turn to the political right for the first time in decades. One of the leading candidates for mayor is Rick Caruso, a pro-business billionaire Republican-turned-Democrat who sits on the board of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and is promising to expand spending on police, not defund them. At another time, the high-end mall and resort
MONTREAL — National Bank of Canada beat expectations in its latest quarter as it prepares to navigate through a more uncertain economic environment. Already muddied by the war in Ukraine and supply chain disruptions, the economic backdrop looks even more uncertain as economists expect the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates faster than expected. Some experts fear that the tightening of monetary policy will lead to a recession. "This is not the scenario that we foresee, but this risk exists an
The commissioner investigating what led to the breakdowns and derailments on Ottawa's light rail system told residents Wednesday night that the upcoming public inquiry is their inquiry. "We serve you," Justice William Hourigan told a well-spaced group of a few dozen people Wednesday evening at the first of two public meetings being held at Ottawa's Shaw Centre. He encouraged others to share their experiences at the second meeting Thursday or by email. "We need to understand what went wrong, who
Residents of Gatineau, Que., can relax a little as the city's emergency response coordinator says rising river water is no longer expected to flood homes in the city. Denis Doucet said the Gatineau River is still expected to rise beyond current levels, but should not exceed the flood threshold. While he said this is good news, he asked residents to stay alert. "I would like to tell everybody, if you have put any protections in place — leave them there," Doucet said in French during an update Fri
PARIS (AP) — For a player who doesn’t consider himself to be a striker, Mohamed Salah is the envy of many forwards with his scoring record for Liverpool. “I don’t play No. 9, I play on the wing,” Salah said. “It’s completely different when you play as a winger.” And yet the Egyptian enters the Champions League final on Saturday with 31 goals in 50 games for this season and as the leading forward in English football. An impressive goal return but one eclipsed by the true No. 9 that Real Madrid wi
