Police continue to investigate the crash in North York.
It happened near Jane Street and Sheppard Avenue around 3:30 a.m Sunday.
Paramedics say three people were pronounced dead on scene and two others have life-threatening injuries.
Police say they are investigating both speed and alcohol as possible factors in the crash.
The are reports one of the cars was going 140 kilometres per hour before the collision.
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Three people killed in Toronto crash
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Police investigate stabbing outside Thorold bar
A Niagara police officer, on patrol in downtown Thorold, discovered a stabbing victim early this morning.
This was just after 2:00 a.m.
It happened outside the Pyro Pub on Front St. North.
Police are looking for two suspects.
The first is a white male, about 30 to 35 years old, 6 feet tall, 250 lbs, heavy build, brown hair and goatee, wearing a white t-shirt.
The second suspect is also a white male, 5 feet 9 inches tall, 180 lbs, short brown hair, glasses, wearing a black t-shirt.
The victim suffered non-life threatening injuires and was taken to hospital.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Constable Erica Warkentin at (905) 688-4111 Extension 4308.
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Deadly weekend on roads around the GTA
Two crashes in the GTA yesterday have left five people dead and two more seriously injured.
And police believe speed was factor in both incidents.
Toronto police say a speeding car hit another vehicle early yesterday morning in the Jane and Steeles area then left the road and was smashed to pieces.
Three people in the car were killed and two others suffered serious injuries.
Yesterday afternoon police say a sports car they believe was travelling at high speed, left a road in Milton, hit a lightpole and caught fire.
According to reports two Teenage boys died in that accident.
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Mulcair goes down in defeat
Rank-and-file New Democrats want Tom Mulcair gone.
They've voted to replace him less than six months after the devastating election loss dashed the party's dream of forming Canada's first federal N-D-P government.
A stunned silence fell over the convention floor in Edmonton as it dawned on delegates that, not only had Mulcair not attained a respectable level of support, he hadn't even reached the 50-per-cent threshold.
The man who less than a year ago was being touted as poised to become Canada's first-ever N-D-P prime minister instead becomes the first federal leader ever to be rejected by a majority of delegates at a party's annual convention.
Mulcair says he'll remain as leader until a successor is chosen, within 24 months.
A resigned-looking Mulcair told delegates after the vote,``The only thing that's important is that we leave here united.''
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Spieth chokes, Willet wins the green jacket
Jordan Spieth suffered a monumental collapse on the back nine of the 80th Masters, handing the green jacket to Danny Willett of Sheffield, England.
Willett shot a final-round 5-under 67 to finish five under par to win by three shots.
Spieth looked to be in the driver's seat after he took a five-shot lead into the back nine.
But the defending champion bogeyed 10 and 11 and then took a quadruple 7 on the 12th hole.
Spieth finished with a final-round 1-over 73 that included a 41 on that fateful back nine.
Spieth finished tied for second with Lee Westwood.
Even more painful for Spieth was going to Butler Cabin and to the 18th green ceremony to present the green jacket to Willett.
``It was a really tough 30 minutes for me that hopefully I never experience again,'' Spieth said.
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Meeting to plan next step in bid to save Welland General hospital
Organizors of the Save our Welland Hospital Campaign will be holding an information meeting this week.
The meeting, featuring Natalie Mehra with the Ontario Health Coalition will be held Thursday at 6 pm at the Pelham Public Library.
The group is fighting to save the Welland hospital which is slated to close when a new south Niagara hospital is built in Niagara Falls.
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Ontario leaders to discuss political fundraising rules as debate heats up
Ontario's political leaders meet this afternoon to talk about tightening the rules on political fundraising, after spending the morning attacking each other on the issue.
Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown kicked off a third week of attacks in question period, suggesting companies that donate to the Liberal party are rewarded with lucrative government contracts.
Brown wants a public inquiry into the Liberals' fundraising activities.
Premier Kathleen Wynne dismissed the accusations, and insisted government policy is not influenced by companies that contribute money to the Liberal party.
Wynne says she's looking forward to getting input from the opposition leaders on banning corporate and union donations, lower personal contribution limits and restrict third party advertising.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath wants the Chief Electoral Officer to oversee the campaign finance reform process, and says she doesn't want Wynne drawing up the new rules on her own.
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Ontario wants to boost job opportunities for people with disabilities
Ontario is launching a partnership with several financial institutions to help boost job opportunities for people with disabilities and others facing barriers to employment.
The Rate Drop Rebate program offers small- and medium-sized businesses in London, Hamilton and Ottawa lower interest rates on their business loans or lines of credit if they hire
disadvantaged Canadians -- which also include students with limited work experience and older Canadians.
The Economic Development Ministry is teaming up with Alterna Savings, C-I-B-C, First Ontario Credit Union, Libro Credit Union and Meridian to deliver the rebate.
The province say it's expected to help up to 11-hundred people find jobs and support up to 500 businesses.
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CRA promising changes to crack down in tax cheaters
Following the release of the Panama Papers, the Canada Revenue Agency is outlining how it will use new government funding to go after tax cheaters.
And it's promising to recoup 2.6-billion dollars over the next five years.
The C-R-A says it will review all foreign electronic fund transfers over 10-thousand dollars involving the Isle of Man and as many as three other unspecified jurisdictions.
It also says it will open a special program to stop organizations that create tax schemes for the wealthy.
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Court hands defeat on polygamy to family from 'Sister Wives'
A federal appeals court has dismissed a decision that decriminalized polygamy in Utah, marking a defeat for the family from the TV show "Sister Wives."
The ruling handed down Monday by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver found the family can't sue because prosecutors never filed charges against them and authorities later said they wouldn't prosecute consenting adult polygamists.
The decision reverses a landmark 2013 ruling from a federal judge in Utah that removed the threat of arrest for polygamous families.
Kody Brown and his four wives sued over Utah's longstanding ban on plural marriages after local prosecutors said publicly that they were considering charges following the premiere of the show.
The Browns' lawyer and the state attorney general didn't have immediate comment.
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New Canadian study on sex-selective abortions
A new study finds that Indian-born women in Canada with two or more children are giving birth to more baby boys than expected.
Researchers suggest sex-selective abortions may be a major reason.
Women who immigrated from India who already had two children gave birth to 138 boys for every 100 girls in the last two decades.
That ratio rose to 326 boys per 100 girls for women with two daughters who had an abortion preceding her third birth, and 409 boys per 100 girls after more than one abortion.
Lead author Marcelo Urquia of Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital says ultrasound can show a baby's sex at 14 weeks' gestation, at which point a woman can opt to terminate the pregnancy and try again.
"This is not just a study about abortions, this is about gender equality and the value we place on women worldwide." says Urquia.
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Brock partners with university in Jamaica
Brock has formed a partnership with the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.
The Centre for Labour Studies at Brock University and the Hugh Lawson Shearer Trade Union Institute at the University of the West Indies recently signed a five-year Agreement of Co-operation.
Officials say the agreement will facilitate research collaborations, faculty and student exchanges, and other joint academic ventures between the two schools.
Joint seminars, conferences, academic meetings and course offerings, as well as visiting lecturers are also covered by the agreement.
“Caribbean Canadians — the likes of Bromley Armstrong, Rosemary Brown, Herman Stewart, June Veecock, the list goes on — have made towering contributions to the Canadian labour movement,” says Simon Black, Assistant Professor in the CLS at Brock.
“Right here in the Niagara region, migrant farm workers from the Caribbean, especially Jamaica, have long toiled in the fields under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program.”
Black says the agreement does more than provide great exchange opportunities for students and faculty.
“The CLS partnership with the Trade Union Institute will facilitate international collaboration around areas of mutual concern such as workers’ rights and building a more just global economy,” he says.
Danny Roberts, Head of the Hugh Lawson Shearer Trade Union Institute, believes the Agreement of Co-operation provides an opportunity for both institutions to deepen their international co-operation.
“There are some labour studies issues on which we need to explore and do comparative work from the perspective of developed and developing countries,” says Roberts.
The Trade Union Education Institute at UWIOC was established in 1963, and renamed for local union leader Hugh Lawson Shearer.
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7 drivers charged with impaired driving over 7 days in Niagara
Seven drivers, including four from the region are on the NRP's latest list of accused impaired drivers.
Police charged the drivers between April 4, 2016 to April 10, 2016.
The following individuals have been charged criminally with impaired driving by alcohol, driving with a blood alcohol concentration above 80 mgs of alcohol in 100 ml of blood, or refusing to provide a breath / blood sample.
Ravshan SHARAFY 37 years, Niagara Falls
Robert K. ROUSE 39 years, St. Catharines
Ryan A. ROZAK 24 years, Toronto
John LENG 25 years, Fort Erie
Jordan P. MCCARTHY 22 years, Dunnville
Raymond A. DAGENAIS 68 years, Port Colborne
Douglas J. WILSON 22 years, No Fixed Abode
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Murder trial into death of Tim Bosma resumes today in Hamilton
The jury in the trial of the two men accused of killing Tim Bosma will begin hearing more testimony this afternoon.
Jurors were given the day off yesterday so the judge could hear legal arguments in the case.
Last week, court heard dramatic testimony form Matt Hagerman, a childhood friend of accused killer Dellen Millard.
Hagerman cried on the stand as he told the court how he repeatedly lied to police and helped get rid of key evidence.
Millard and Mark Smich are both charged with first degree murder.
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Teens in fatal Milton crash identified
Two Grade 12 students have been identified as the victims of a fiery car crash in Milton, on Sunday afternoon.
Faruq Anani and Dylan Stephenson, who both attended Craig Kielburger Secondary School, were in a Nissan 350z sports car that lost control on the James Snow Parkway and slammed into a light pole.
School Principal Donna Taylor says Stephenson was a ``kind, quiet young man'' with a ``really cool sense of humour.''
Taylor described Anani as a ``larger than life student'' who was kind and caring.
Investigators have said they believe speed was likely a factor in the crash.
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Turtle smuggler pleads guilty in Michigan court
Prosecutors in Michigan are seeking a five-year prison sentence for a former University of Waterloo student who says he smuggled more than 1,000 turtles to China to help pay for his college education.
Kai Xu is returning to Ann Arbor federal court today.
He has pleaded guilty but his crime was a ``shameful'' effort to relieve the financial burden on his parents.
In 2014, he was caught at the Detroit Windsor border with 51 turtles taped to his legs.
The U.S. government says he either shipped turtles to China from Canada and the U.S., or hired someone to fly to China from the U.S. with turtles in luggage.
Xu has been in custody for 19 months and hopes to avoid more time behind bars.
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Loblaw announcing big expansion plans
Loblaw is planning to build dozens of new stores and renovate more than 100 others this year, creating thousands of retail and construction jobs.
Loblaw says that overall, it will erect about 50 new stores and renovate 150 existing ones, including projects that started in January.
The stores will include both grocery stores of various banners as well as Shoppers Drug Mart locations. Loblaw is not yet releasing information on where the new stores will be located.
Catherine Thomas, Loblaw's director of external communication, said in an email that the expansion will add about 5,000 new store employees while creating roughly 15,000 construction jobs.
The new store jobs will increase Loblaw's employee base by 2.6 per cent.
Loblaw employs about 192,000 full- and part-time workers, according to its most recent annual information form.
Loblaw will invest $1 billion in the expansion, while Choice Properties, a real estate investment trust, will contribute $300 million.
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Niagara College receives largest-ever private donation
Niagara College has received its largest private donor donation ever.
At a ceremony this afternoon it was announced that the estate of Eva M. Lewis has made the 2.6 million dollar donation.
Lewis was a school teacher, born in Sudbury and raised in Welland.
She was introduced to the college by her sister-in-law.
Lewis died in 2013 at the age of 99.
College President Dan Patterson says Lewis was passionate about the role education can play in a persons' life.
She donated 500-thousand dollars to the college previously making her personal donation to the college just over 3 million dollars.
The money will be spent to expand the Learning Commons.
The area will be renamed in her honour.
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Biodiversity offsetting on Niagara Falls council agenda
It looks like Niagara Falls council is next in line to tackle the controversial issue of biodiversity offsetting at their regular meeting tonight.
A resolution found at the end of council's agenda package, asks councillors to back a proposal by the region that would ask the province to allow 13 acres of wetlands on a development slated for an area near the Thundering Waters Golf Course, be moved in an effort to allow the billion dollar project to move forward.
The issue dominated last week's Niagara Regional council meeting with more than 100 protestors showing up demanding the wetlands be protected.
Regional councillors spent over four hours debating the matter, ending the marathon discussion without a final vote.
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Caslin preparing to deliver State of the Region address today
Niagara Regional Chair Alan Caslin will deliver his second State of the Region address today
The event, runs from 11 am to 2 pm at the Scotiabank Convention Centre in Niagara Falls.
Last year Caslin outlined several of his priorities, including GO Transit, creating tools to analyze the region's performance and conducting value for money audits.
This year, as Caslin prepares for the year ahead, the region finds itself having to search for a new CAO, after current Chief Adminstrative Officer Harry Schlange resigned from the post last week to take a job in Brampton.
In his resignation letter Schlange pointed to actions and behaviours at the leadership level that run contrary to his efforts to create a major structural and cultural transformation at the region .
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