Author: maitken

The father of a 15-year-old Ontario boy who was killed by a 200-pound soccer net says he is honoured that a new provincial law is named for his son, though he would trade everything to be oblivious to the dangers of such nets and have his son back.

“If you believe in yourself, you don’t know where it could take you,” Joel Haywood King Handles, the School of Handles Basketball Academy CEO and ex-player told Global News.

The City of Montreal has launched an investigation and suspended an employee after fire prevention officers ordered a number of restaurants to shut their packed outdoor seating areas at dinner time during the busy Grand Prix weekend.

A man fined $15,000 was one of three area people convicted in Brantford court in April of offences under the Tobacco Tax Act, Colin Knill was fined and placed on a two-year probation for the crime of “selling, offering or keeping for sale, delivering or causing to be delivered raw leaf tobacco to a person […]

Ten people have been displaced after a fire was intentionally set at a single-room occupancy building in Vancouver Monday morning, according to officials.

A well-known white grizzly bear often seen near the Trans-Canada Highway has died after being hit by a vehicle.

Toronto police say a devastating fire at the historic St. Anne’s Anglican Church is not being treated as suspicious at this time, although investigators are still trying to determine what caused the blaze.

The Calgary Tower will be lit up blue and orange on Monday night, but it won’t be in support of the Edmonton Oilers.

Firefighters managed to contain a fire at a north-end home on Saturday night, and no one was injured, Brockville Police reported. Police were notified at about 8:15 p.m. that the Brockville Fire Department was responding to an active fire at a residence on Millwood Avenue, police reported Monday. “The Brockville Fire Department responded quickly and […]