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HALIFAX -- The Royal Canadian Navy announced today its sixth Arctic patrol vessel will be named after Lt. Robert Hampton Gray, a Second World War navy hero.
Gray volunteered for the naval reserve in 1940, served as a pilot in the navy's fleet and embarked on HMS Formidable during the war in the Pacific in April 1945.
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LONDON, ONT. -- A pair of boaters had to be rescued from Lake Erie Saturday after the vessel they were travelling in ran out of fuel and began drifting towards the U.S. border, Ontario Provincial Police say.
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TORONTO -- Two men arrested in the area of Toronto's Cherry Beach after a fight menaced a number of passersby with running chainsaws before they were captured by police, an eyewitness says.
A jogger who wishes to remain anonymous told CTV News Toronto she was running in the area of Cherry Street, between the beach and Regata Road on Sunday morning, when she says she saw a young boy on rollerblades dart off of the path in front of her.
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OTTAWA -- Ottawa police tell CTV News they are investigating an incident at the local constituency office of Ottawa Centre Liberal MP Catherine McKenna.
Police said the incident happened at around 10:30 a.m. Aug. 6, at the office on Catherine Street in Ottawa's Centretown neighbourhood.
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TORONTO -- New data suggests that more than 500 COVID-19 infections in Canada have been linked to public venues including stores, bars, restaurants, daycares and schools since the beginning of July as more businesses continue to reopen and restrictions are eased.
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TORONTO -- Ontario's human rights commission has found that Black people in Toronto are "disproportionately" arrested, charged and subjected to use of force by the city's police force.
In a report released this morning, the commission finds that Black people are more likely to be "arrested, charged, over-charged, struck, shot or killed by Toronto police.
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TORONTO -- Ontario is reporting an uptick in the number of new COVID-19 cases, recording more than 100 new infections for the first time in a week.
Health officials reported 115 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the total number of lab-confirmed infections to date to 40,161.
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MONTREAL -- There are now 5,696 people who have died of COVID-19 in Quebec, health authorities announced Monday, as confirmed cases in the province reached 60,627.
That’s up one from the total of 5,695 deaths reported Sunday; COVID-19 cases in Quebec rose 156 from the total of 60,471 announced a day earlier.
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A new report from the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has found that Black people are more likely than others to be arrested, charged or have force used against them during interactions with Toronto police.
The report, which is the second interim report in the OHRC's inquiry into racial profiling and discrimination, includes an analysis of Toronto Police Service data from 2013 to 2017.
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