News/Canada
CP Rail leaves mountain train parked without crew or handbrakes near site of deadly 2019 runaway crash
WARNING: This story contains language that some readers may find offensive. Canadian Pacific Railway is under fire after leaving a 2.5-kilometre-long grain train...
Genetic genealogy pushes Toronto detectives close to identifying killer in 2 cold cases from 1983
Detectives with the Toronto Police Service say they are close to identifying the killer responsible for two cold cases from 1983. They have...
Why moving to daylight time is ‘a challenge on top of a challenge’ in 2021
Clocks jumped forward in most parts of Canada this weekend and sleep experts say the ritual will cause more stress for those already tossing and...
In fight against illegal fishing, Canada’s sea spies struggle with sloppy intel, bias: Internal files
They’re billed as Canada’s spies on the sea: an award-winning team gathering intelligence on illegal fishing. But the National Fisheries Intelligence Service, a...
Provinces, territories are owed more than $1.3B in unpaid fines, investigation shows
More than 12 years after a propane explosion in Toronto killed two people, levelled large parts of a neighbourhood and sent thousands running from...
5 graphs that help tell the story of the pandemic
It’s been one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, and Canada is just beginning to understand how the coronavirus has...
Commanding officers interfered in sexual assault investigations, retired military police officer says
A former military police officer says he faced commanding officers who interfered in his sexual assault cases and prosecutors who were reluctant to...
Botched no-knock raids prompt calls to limit police tactic
Police forces across Canada are conducting hundreds of no-knock raids each year to execute search warrants despite growing concern about the trampling of...
Driver of 2nd boat in O’Leary crash convicted of failing to exhibit navigation light
The operator of one of the boats in a 2019 fatal crash involving a vessel driven by Linda O’Leary, wife of businessman and reality...
Multiple WE Charity donors raised money for same borehole well in Kenyan village
A fundraising drive in a tight-knit community about 150 kilometres northwest of Toronto. California philanthropists promoted by the Clinton Foundation. Hundreds of school-age...
Why winter exercise can be especially hard on the lungs
Canadian Olympic hopeful Katherine Stewart-Jones can’t remember when she first started experiencing a cough she and other cross-country skiers call “race hack,” but...
It pays to get a 2nd home appraisal, especially if you’re a Black homeowner, hidden camera investigation shows
Almost a million home appraisals happen in Canada every year, and the outcomes can determine the terms of a mortgage or whether a...
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and seniors: Where Canada and other countries stand
Canadians now have a third option to protect against COVID-19 after Health Canada approved the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine last Friday. But questions remain about...
Ontario is expanding asymptomatic COVID-19 testing in schools. Here’s what you need to know
Asymptomatic testing for COVID-19 in schools is ramping up across Ontario, following a directive from Education Minister Stephen Lecce earlier this month. In this...
Foster teen killed in Ontario home run by for-profit company
Battered, bloody and nearly naked, 15-year-old David Roman made a simple plea moments before he was stabbed to death in an Ontario foster...
