RCMP say a highway traffic stop near Caronport this month resulted in 4,000 pounds of illegal marijuana being found inside a transport truck. On April 7, a Highway Patrol member conducted a commercial vehicle safety inspection traffic stop with the officer determining that the driver was allegedly in possession of illegal marijuana. While performing that […]
A variant of COVID-19 that has ravaged the U.K. is now in Canada, health officials said Saturday as they announced an Ontario couple had been diagnosed with the contagious new strain. The province’s associate chief medical officer of health said in a news release that the strain of COVID-19 was identified in a couple from […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada needs to do a better job protecting seniors, especially in care homes. At his daily briefing, the prime minister was responding to reports of the military finding sub-standard conditions, re-using equipment without sanitizing and a general lack of cleanliness, particularly in Ontario. “We need to make sure that in […]
Saskatchewan will have to wait a little bit longer to have their day in court to fight the carbon tax. The Supreme Court of Canada has moved both Saskatchewan and Ontario’s carbon tax appeals to September. The appeals were originally scheduled to go forward last month, but were postponed along with all other cases scheduled […]
Ontario health officials are confirming the province’s first death in a patient with COVID-19. A spokesman for Health Minister Christine Elliott says the 77-year-old man in the Muskoka region was a close contact of another positive case. Travis Kann says the man himself wasn’t a confirmed case before he died, rather he was under investigation […]
TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford is declaring a state of emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He says this is an unprecedented time in our history and this decision was not made lightly. Ford says the order bans public events of over 50 people, including parades, events and services within places of worship […]
It was another heated question period in the House of Commons on Thursday with the on-going rail blockades that have popped up across the country including the one near Belleville, Ontario. Conservative MP Leonna Alleslev accused the Trudeau government of holding the economy hostage. She went on to say quote “That the blockades are another […]
Two government sources say Ontario is set to announce a new confirmed case of the novel coronavirus. That brings Canada’s total number of cases to four and Ontario’s to three. The sources, who are not authorized to discuss the case publicly, tell The Canadian Press the latest case is in London, Ont. Ontario’s chief medical officer of […]
Public health officials in Ontario are reporting a second presumptive case of the new coronavirus. They say the wife of the man who became the first case of the illness in Canada has also tested positive for the virus. The province says the woman has been in self-isolation since arriving in Toronto with her husband last week. Chief […]
Hoping to reduce their carbon footprint and combat climate change, Saskatchewan, Ontario and New Brunswick are turning to small nuclear reactors for future power. The province’s premiers, who are all against a federal price on carbon emissions, made the announcement together in Mississauga Ontario on Sunday, a day before the premiers took part in The […]
