OPP asking people in Caledon area to shelter in place in response to incident with potentially armed people

The Provincial Police of Ontario is asking people along parts of Highway 9 in the Caledon area that take refuge on Saturday morning while the officers respond to “an incident in the area that involves some potentially armed people.” The shelter in its place covers highway 9 between Gore Road, Patterson Side Road, FinnerTy Street…

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‘Is this elbows down?’: Manitoba premier questions Canada’s removal of retaliatory tariffs

Manitoba’s prime minister is questioning the federal government’s decision to leave most counter-tariffs against the United States, saying that he does not want the prime minister to begin adopting a “elbow” approach. Prime Minister Wab Kinew told CBC News in a telephone interview on Friday that is not the right time for Canada to raise…

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Ontario man charged after confronting intruder inside home allegedly used knife, court docs say

Lindsay’s man, Ontario, who faces criminal charges for allegedly attacking an intruder in the home is accused of using a knife in the incident, according to judicial documents. A charges presented by the police on Thursday and reviewed by CBC News identifies the tenant of the apartment as Jeremy David McDonald, 44. The documents say…

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3 provinces, 1 territory made pharmacare deals. Ottawa won’t say if others are coming

Two provinces have implemented Pharmacare this year, two more jurisdictions are preparing to implement it and the rest of the country does not know if Ottawa still intends to subsidize some medications prescribed for them. National Pharmacare can become a regional privilege that is granted only to four of the 13 provinces and territories of…

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Pending gene therapy gives hope to family of Sask. boy with rare ‘childhood Alzheimer’s’

For a long time, Stephanie McCabe and Andre Doucette accepted that her six -year -old son Emmett would die young. The family learned that Emmett had Sanfilippo syndrome, a rare genetic disease that affects the brain and nervous system, sometimes called infant Alzheimer’s due to similar symptoms, as it began to preschool. Children with Sanfilippo…

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