TORONTO – Ontario Provincial Police say they’ve charged three of their own veteran officers and suspended four others over allegations of corruption related to the province’s tow truck industry. The force alleges the accused officers provided preferential treatment to towing companies within the Greater Toronto Area. The charges and suspensions…

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Three coronavirus cases have been detected among charter flights carrying tennis players, coaches and officials to Melbourne ahead of the Australian Open, health authorities and tournament organizers said Saturday. A total of 47 players from the two affected flights – arriving from Los Angeles and Abu Dhabi – are now…

OTTAWA – Canada faces an unfortunate delay in vaccine deliveries due to Pfizer production issues in Europe, federal officials revealed Friday, chalking it up to the challenges of an unprecedented mass immunization effort while insisting most Canadians will still be vaccinated by fall. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Ottawa was…

OTTAWA – Canada faces an unfortunate delay in vaccine deliveries due to Pfizer production issues in Europe, federal officials revealed Friday, chalking it up to the challenges of an unprecedented mass immunization effort while insisting most Canadians will still be vaccinated by fall. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Ottawa was…

Ontarios top public health official is expressing his frustration with residents who he says continue to ignore public health advice, despite a surging number of COVID-19 infections. Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams told reporters at a briefing on Thursday that officials have recently seen a rash of…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA declared the Mars digger dead Thursday after failing to burrow deep into the red planet to take its temperature. Scientists in Germany spent two years trying to get their heat probe, dubbed the mole, to drill into the Martian crust. But the 16-inch-long (40-centimetre) device…

In a relatively slow-starting 2021 — where the pop world still seems to be regaining its footing following the holiday music rush of late 2020 — the impact of “Drivers License” feels particularly seismic. “I truly do think this is just a lightning-in-a-bottle moment that sort of brought together a…

A 25-year-old man is dead after he was stabbed in a Scarborough building late Wednesday afternoon. Emergency crews were called to a building in the area of Eglinton Avenue East and Midland Avenue just after 5 p.m. When officers arrived, they located a male victim suffering from multiple stab wounds…

OAKLAND, Calif. Encrypted messaging apps Signal and Telegram are seeing huge upticks in downloads from Apple and Googles app stores. Facebook-owned WhatsApp, by contrast, is seeing its growth decline following a fiasco that forced the company to clarify a privacy update it had sent to users. Mobile app analytics firm…