Guests at an amusement park in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, got stuck upside down on a ride for nearly 30 minutes on Sept. 23. Maintenance staff brought the ride down at 11:05 p.m. ET. after it inverted at 10:40 p.m. Jiashira Rivera, who uploaded videos showing the incident to social media, told Reuters in a written […]
HAMILTON, Ontario—There was no evidence of working smoke alarms in a Hamilton house that caught fire, claiming the lives of four people, Ontario officials said Friday. Two adults and two children died in a hospital after firefighters pulled them from the second floor of the burning townhouse Thursday night in the city’s southeast, Hamilton fire […]
TORONTO—The death toll from powerful thunderstorms in Canada’s two most populous provinces this weekend rose to at least eight, authorities said on Sunday, as emergency crews continued a massive clean-up to restore power to half a million people. The storms, which lasted more than two hours Saturday afternoon and packed the power of a tornado, […]
An Ontario police oversight agency said it is investigating two cases of police operations during the protest against COVID-19 mandates in the nation’s capital on Feb. 18 and 19, including one incident where a civilian was seriously injured. In a news release issued Feb. 20, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said a 49-year-old woman “has a reported […]
The Canadian government has signaled what might be a win for the trucker convoy that’s protesting vaccine passports—but it has issued a state of emergency. Demonstrators now face losing their licenses and up to $100,000 fines.
The White House urges Americans to leave Ukraine within 48 hours, President Joe Biden announces a plan to divide frozen Afghan funds between victims of 9/11 and the people of Afghanistan, and Canada’s Ontario declares a state of emergency.
TORONTO—Ontario Premier Doug Ford has declared a state of emergency in his province over the ongoing trucker protests in Ottawa and the border blockage in Windsor, Ont. During a press conference on Friday, Ford said he will enact orders to make it “crystal clear” that it is illegal and punishable to block and impede the […]
WINDSOR, Ontario—The busiest border crossing between Canada and the U.S. was closed to traffic for more than two hours on Monday after authorities found possible explosives during a vehicle inspection. The Ambassador Bridge that links Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit was shut to all traffic and the surrounding area was evacuated as well. Windsor police said […]
The main player in a successful rescue search at Ontario’s Algonquin Park was none other than Zoe the Labrador, a two-year-old police dog working diligently with the Ontario Provincial Police’s canine unit.
Heavy rains have caused flooding in Canada. Towns in Ontario and British Columbia are under water. Montreal declared a state of emergency Sunday, May 7. The Canadian government sent in the army to assist, but in many cases there was little the army could do. Many residents have been driven from their homes. “The house […]
