Provincial police say a 13 year old from Toronto was killed in a boat collision on Lake Rosseau that also injured several people, one of them critically. OPP say one person, a 51 year old woman from Oakville, Ont., is still missing following the Wednesday night crash, and search efforts have resumed. They say a total of six people were aboard the two boats that collided on the lake near Muskoka's Windermere Marina on Wednesday. Bracebridge Ontario Provincial Police say they received multiple 911 calls around 7:40 p.m., with witnesses describing seeing several people in the water. Four people

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister has replaced a cabinet minister who quit the inner circle with complaints about her treatment. Eileen Clarke handled Indigenous relations. But no sooner did backbencher Alan Lagimodiere replace Clarke, than controversy erupted. Lagimodiere told a news conference that residential schools were not all bad. When NDP Leader Wab Kinew volubly objected, the new minister quickly said the schools were designed to eradicate Indigenous culture.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is shrugging off renewed international calls to re-open our border to international travel. He says Canadians don't want to go back into lockdowns again that could result from re-opening too quickly. Today, legislators from across the U-S Midwest voted to formally ask the White House and Ottawa to re-open the border to fully vaccinated travelers, immediately. The Midwestern Legislative Conference passed a formal resolution at its annual meeting. The Canada-US border has been closed to all but essential travel and trade since March of last year.

Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold has officially punched her ticket to the Tokyo Olympics. Bujold was named to the Canadian boxing team on Wednesday, a week after she won her appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland to compete at the Games. The 11 time national flyweight champion was forced to appeal after her Olympic trials in Buenos Aires were cancelled earlier this year due to rising COVID-19 cases in Argentina. The International Olympic Committee's Boxing Task Force determined athletes would earn berths based on rankings, but Bujold had missed the three events they decided to

The widow of a Toronto police officer killed in the line of duty remembered him as her knight, her strength, her confidante and her best friend. Margaret Northrup delivered the eulogy this afternoon at the police funeral for Constable Jeffrey Northrup, who was struck by a vehicle while responding to a robbery in a parking lot at Toronto City Hall. Officers from across the country attended the funeral at B-MO Field stadium. Constable Jeffrey Northrup died in what investigators have called a deliberate act while he was responding to a robbery in a parking lot at Toronto City Hall earlier this m

The federal government is donating 17.7 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and is asking Canadians to give their own money to help other countries get needles into arms. Procurement Minister Anita Anand says after talking to provinces, it was determined these COVID-19 doses to be excess supply.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had previously pledged that Canada would give back 13 million shots it was set to receive through a contract with the global vaccine-sharing alliance COVAX. Canada is on track to receive 68 million doses by the end of July, which would be enough to inoculate mos

Canada is expecting vaccine shipments to keep rolling in this week as the country inches closer to matching the percentage of people in the United States fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The federal government expects another 1.4 million doses of the shot from Pfizer-BioNTech to arrive in the next seven days. It also plans to distribute the 1.5 million doses from Moderna that came in last Friday. By the end of the week, Canadian officials expect to have received a total of more than 55 million doses including the latest shipments, though those figures may change. The federal government has

Canada's Denis Shapovalov is through to the semifinals at Wimbledon after posting a 6-4, 3-6, 5-7, 6-1, 6-4 win over Russia's Karen Khachanov. Shapovalov, seeded 10th at the All England Club, fired 17 aces in the match and won 86 per cent of first serve points. He hit 59 winners to Khachanov's 31 and converted five of his 19 break point chances. Shapovalov, from Richmond Hill, Ont., faces top seed Novak Djokovic in the semifinals. Later today, Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime looks to join Shapovalov in the final four when he faces Italy's Matteo Berrettini.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he strongly condemns the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse at his home. Trudeau says in a Twitter post that he denounces the "appalling assassination," adding that Canada is ready to support the people of Haiti and offer any assistance they need. A group of gunmen killed Moïse and wounded his wife in their home early today, inflicting more chaos in the Caribbean country already enduring an escalation of gang violence, antigovernment protests and a recent surge in COVID-19 infections. The assassination creates more uncertainty ahead of planned