A man in his 30s is dead after an industrial accident at a construction site in Mississauga Thursday afternoon. Emergency crews were called to the area of Cawthra Road and Hyacinthe Boulevard just after 5:30 p.m. A district fire chief told CP24 that construction crews were working in a tunnel…

MONTREAL — Quebec could change its vaccine strategy based on new data out of Israel about the efficacy of the first dose, on its own, of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, says a top advisor in the province. Israel just provided the world with its first large-scale, real-world hint of how…

A full-throated, supremely confident Lady Gaga belted out the national anthem at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in a very Gaga way – with flamboyance, fashion and passion. The Grammy winner wore a huge dove brooch and an impressively billowing red sculpted skirt as she sang into a golden microphone, delivering…

The themes of Bidens 21-minute speech mirrored those he had put at the center of his presidential campaign, when he portrayed himself as an empathetic alternative to the divisive Trump, a Republican. He had promised immediate action, and shortly after entering the White House on Wednesday afternoon he began signing…

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For anyone hoping a decentralized web is in our immediate future anyone who has, say, recently observed the measurable ways in which big tech oligarchs play an active role in shaping our democracy, perhaps theres good news: On Tuesday, privacy-focused browser Brave released an update that makes it the first to…

Scottish Ambulance Service call handlers have started to receive the coronavirus vaccine after a government U-turn allowed them to be prioritised, a union has said. The Scottish Government initially refused to include control-room workers in the priority category, arguing they were not patient-facing, according to the Unite trade union. However,…

These days, we’re alerted to the rise of Bitcoin and the fall of nations via little buzzes from the smartphones in our pocket. Go back fifty years or so and it was all a bit more romantic, with noisy teletype machines delivering hot tips straight to the newsroom for broadcast…

Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley has ruled out any change in the best-of-five set format for men’s singles matches at the season-opening tennis major as three more COVID-19 cases were reported among the international arrivals for the tournament. There are 72 players now in hard quarantine and unable to…

TORONTO — As President-elect Joe Biden officially takes his oath to become the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, CTV News will be bringing the historic event live to the homes of Canadians through TV and online. CTV’s Chief News Anchor and Senior Editor Lisa LaFlamme will be…