Canada

Three people were taken to hospital after a plane crashed at an airport about one hour north of Edmonton on Sunday. The plane with four passengers flipped and was seriously damaged at the airport in Westlock, Alta., around 11:10 a.m. The status of the fourth passenger is unknown. In a statement, Westlock...

After recording fewer than 500 cases for three days to start the last week, Quebec announced 612 new infections on Sunday — the fourth straight day with more than 600 new cases. These new cases announced saw the province’s seven-day rolling average climb to 546. Despite accounting for just 23.9 per...

Police are investigating after two people — a man and a woman — were shot in Chinatown on Sunday night. Toronto Police responded to the area of Vanauley Walk and Napanee Crt., near Spadina Ave. and Dundas St. W. for reports of gunfire and found two gunshot victims who sustained...

A pedestrian died after being hit by an SUV Wednesday night in the Fabreville district in Laval. The victim, a woman in her 50s, was walking southbound on Montée Montrougeau at around 6:25 p.m. when she was struck. The driver of the vehicle, a woman in her late 40s, was...

Police said the two children had been located and were safe. An Amber Alert has been cancelled after police said two children missing in Sutton, Que., were found safe. The alert was issued Thursday around noon. The Sûreté du Québec police say the two boys, aged three and one, had...

Ontario is reporting 587 new COVID-19 cases and six more deaths on Thursday as the seven-day rolling average continues to decline. Today’s case count is up from the 476 infections logged yesterday but down from the 647 cases reported last Thursday. Among the latest cases, 349 individuals are unvaccinated, 27 are...

Nearly 200 Edmonton Zone schools have COVID-19 cases on the first day Alberta Health began to report infections in the classroom online. There are 179 schools on alert with two to nine cases in the Edmonton Zone, and 10 schools with outbreaks — 10+ cases. Four of the schools in the...

A 38-year-old Calgarian faces charges related to dangerous driving causing death and driving while over the prescribed limit causing death in connection with a fatal crash that left a pedestrian dead in Bridgeland. According to police, a 2020 Ford Ranger was travelling northbound on Edmonton Trail near Second Avenue N.E....

A male student is in hospital with serious injuries and another student is in custody following a stabbing inside a North York high school on Tuesday afternoon, Toronto police say. At around 1:40 p.m., police were called to George S. Henry Academy, near Highway 401 and Don Mills Road, for...

Mauril-Bélanger elementary in Vanier has become the third school in Ottawa to be closed after an outbreak of COVID-19. The school on Montgomery Street was closed Monday, said a spokesperson for the Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario. Ottawa Public Health reported an outbreak at the school that involved...