OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will buy another 40 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine over the next two years. Trudeau tweeted about the agreement with the Massachusetts-based drugmaker, saying the deal could be extended into 2024. He says there are also options baked into the deal…

Ontario reported more than 500 new COVID-19 cases for a third day in a row and two additional deaths on Saturday, as cases continue to rise amid the fourth wave of the pandemic. Provincial health officials logged 578 new coronavirus infections today, up from 510 cases on Friday and 378…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – One student was killed and another was taken into custody Friday after a shooting at a middle school near downtown Albuquerque during the lunch hour, police said. The gunfire at Washington Middle School marked the second shooting in New Mexico’s largest city in less than 24…

Patrons and staff were evacuated from CF Sherway Gardens in Etobicoke on Friday afternoon after a shooting inside. Police and paramedics were called to the mall at 2:40 p.m. for a reported shooting. Interim Police Chief James Ramer told reporters at the scene that there was some sort of physical…

Patrons and staff were evacuated from Sherway Gardens Mall in Etobicoke on Friday afternoon after a shooting at one of its entrances. Toronto police and paramedics say they were called to the mall at 2:40 p.m. for a reported shooting. A police source told CP24 that two groups of armed…

Toronto police are searching for two men wanted for allegedly defrauding residential landlords and Airbnb hosts throughout the city. From Jan. 20 to Apr. 7, 2021, two men allegedly rented several apartments under false identities, police said in a news release on Friday. The men contacted property owners through a…

PLYMOUTH, England, Aug 13 (Reuters) — A man who shot dead five people including a very young girl during a six-minute killing spree with a pump-action shotgun was named by British police on Friday as 22-year-old Jake Davison, though they said the motive for the murders was unclear. Davison, a…

A driver is dead following an early morning crash on Highway 401 in Toronto. Shortly after 3:30 a.m., Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a collision on the eastbound lanes of Highway 401, near Keele Street. A vehicle collided with the back of a stopped or disabled transport truck that…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu’s whereabouts for the next 200 years. The bad news is that the space rock has a slightly greater chance of clobbering Earth than previously thought. But don’t be alarmed: Scientists reported Wednesday…

Isolation rules for Ontarians considered close contacts of someone who has COVID-19 now vary depending on vaccination status, including in school settings where cases are expected to pop up this fall.  New guidance from the province issued Wednesday said fully vaccinated people in contact with positive cases don’t have to isolate…