There are reports of multiple injuries following an explosion at a Mississauga plaza Thursday night, Peel police say. Police say they were called to the scene at 10:32 p.m ET in the area of Hurontario Street and Eglinton Avenue East. An ambulance bus is being brought to the scene, and police are sealing off the plaza.

The federal government has blocked the proposed $1.5-billion takeover of Aecon Group Inc. by a Chinese state-owned company for reasons of national security. After markets closed Wednesday, a spokesman for Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains confirmed the government’s decision to prevent CCCC International Holding Ltd. from acquiring the Aecon construction firm. The Trudeau government had been warned by experts to proceed cautiously when weighing any investment bids by Chinese state firms and to be as transparent as possible in reviewing the proposed deal.

As part of TransLink’s rollout of credit card and mobile payments on board its buses and at SkyTrain stations, transit riders will hear Freeman’s distinctive voice making announcements at select SkyTrain stations and on some routes for a brief time this summer. Freeman’s voice will be heard notifying transit riders about TransLink’s new tap-to-pay feature.

More than half of Canada’s landmass is comprised of boreal forest—a vast and tree-filled region that extends across the country. To help conserve the forest, the province of Alberta has designated four new protected parks in its northeastern region, reports David Thurton of the CBC. When added to other contiguous conserved lands in Alberta, the new parks make up the largest stretch of protected boreal forests on the planet.

As Canada prepares to legalize marijuana this summer, politicians are facing growing calls to grant a blanket amnesty for people convicted under the existing drug laws – many of whom belong to marginalized groups. Since the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, was elected in 2015 on a manifesto promise to legalize cannabis, more than 15,000 people have been charged over marijuana-related offences – joining close to 500,000 Canadians with marijuana charges on their criminal record.

An Ontario woman is looking for an apology from the Georgia police officer who arrested, handcuffed and charged her because she was driving with a Canadian licence. "It was the most horrendous incident of my life," said Emily Nield. "It was mortifying. I was terrified the entire time." About a month ago, the 27-year-old was driving through Georgia to Tennessee, where she had just completed a master's degree in geology. Nield's route took her along the I-75, which is often used by Canadians making the trek to and from Florida.

People who live in rural areas are happier than city dwellers, new research has found. The study surveyed 400,000 people across Canada using a widely-recognized happiness scale. Cities have higher salaries, higher education levels and lower unemployment rates. However, that meant nothing in terms of joy: people who lived in the countryside were, on average, eight times happier than people in urban areas, the study found.

Brother of late Toronto mayor is favourite to become next provincial leader in Ontario, sparking debate as to whether divisive politics that rattled US have headed north.

Canadian police say they believe pranksters are behind a car found suspended from a Toronto overpass. The blue sedan, empty and in disrepair, was spotted hanging from the Millwood Bridge early on Wednesday morning. Toronto police originally believed it was part of a movie shoot but later confirmed no filming permits had been issued.

Some of the biggest tech conferences, including Collision, Creative Commons and RightsCon, are being held in Canada instead of the U.S. this year, Financial Post reports, as Canada's tech industry booms amid President Trump's travel ban and tightening of foreign worker policies. Big picture: Canada has been aggressively recruiting top academic and tech talent recently. Meanwhile the Trump administration has pursued stricter employment-based immigration policies that could have negative impacts on the U.S. tech industry.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says it regrets requesting that the Canadian minister for economic development remove his turban before boarding a U.S. flight. Navdeep Bains, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's minister of innovation, science and economic development, said Thursday he accepted an apology from the TSA for an April 2017 incident at an airport in Detroit where agents asked him to take off his turban, Bloomberg News reported Thursday.

The push towards decriminalization comes as the opioid crisis continues to claim thousands of lives on both sides of the 49th parallel

The ISIS-branded al-Bayan radio and Nashir News were also targets.

In the 1950s and 60s, a Canadian hospital subjected psychiatric patients to electroshocks, drug-induced sleep and huge doses of LSD. Families are still grappling with the effects. By Ashifa Kassam.

Researcher Matthew Hayes is looking into nearly 15,000 pages of documents detailing UFO sightings. He hopes to learn more about what these sightings, and the obsessive documentation of them, say about the nature of science and observation.

One of the two Canadian women who documented a lavish cruise trip to Australia on Instagram as a front for smuggling cocaine has been sentenced to at least four and a half years in prison. Melina Roberge, along with two accomplices, had embarked on a round-the-world cruise, taking in a number of exotic locations, before the 95 kg (210 lb) haul was discovered on their cruise ship when it docked in Sydney.

A Canadian police officer is being hailed for the restraint and professionalism he showed in arresting the suspect in the Toronto van attack without firing a single shot. On Monday afternoon, a white van ploughed into pedestrians along one of Toronto’s busiest streets, killing 10 people and injuring more than a dozen others in what one official described as “pure carnage”.

We all know that texting or talking on the phone without a Bluetooth headset while driving is a REALLY bad idea, that could end with you or someone else being seriously injured, or worse dead. But what about if you call or text someone when you know their driving? You can’t be held responsible if they decided to answer and try to respond to you, can you?

Almost three-quarters of Canadians surveyed say recent data mining issues with Facebook will cause them to modify how they use the platform with some saying they will delete their account. In an online survey conducted by the Angus Reid Institute, one in 10 people said they would stop using Facebook by either taking a break or deleting their account.

Canada is on track to legalise marijuana for recreational use within months, an MP has said. Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party vowed to introduce the measure during the 2015 election campaign and brought legislation on the matter to the House of Commons in April 2017. The bill was later referred to the Senate, where it has faced fierce stiff opposition from Conservatives.

When the Canadian government announced it would expel four Russian diplomats in retaliation for the poisoning of an ex-spy in Salisbury, U.K., it raised questions as to whether Ottawa was accusing Moscow of interfering in Canada's most recent election. In a statement, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said the four had been identified "as intelligence officers or individuals who have used their diplomatic status to undermine Canada's security or interfere in our democracy."

In 2014, archaeologists digging in the sands of Calvert Island, British Columbia, made an unexpected discovery: a single footprint pressed into the clay below the surface. Subsequent excavations turned up 28 more footprints, the oldest in North America.

Churches in Montreal are becoming concerned about hosting community groups after being hit with bills for municipal taxes. Joel Coppetiers, the Minister at the Cote des Neiges Presbyterian church, was shocked when his institution first received a municipal tax bill in early 2015. It was "the first indication that something had changed," said Coppetiers.

He just wanted to give his Navy buddies a tasty treat — but ended up accidentally assaulting tourists with a towel-wrapped seagull, a shoe, and causing a hotel blackout.

The RCMP confirmed 14 fatalities and 14 injuries in a collision involving a junior hockey team's bus in Saskatchewan on Friday, with rescue efforts ongoing late into the evening.

Indian trade authorities have slapped a ban on imports of seal products, just as Canada’s commercial sealers gear up for the annual East Coast seal hunt. The move comes after years of campaigning by animal rights groups who argued that seals and seal pups go through undue suffering when they are shot and clubbed to death for their skin and fur, the Press Trust of India reported.

The family of a Humboldt Broncos player from Lethbridge who was injured in a tragic bus crash Friday night says Logan Boulet is on life support – and will donate his organs to six people in need. Boulet, a defencemen, was on his way to a semi-final game against the Nipawin Hawks when a tractor trailer and the bus collided, killing 15 people and injuring over a dozen more.

Federal prosecutors have fined a Canadian online pharmacy $34 million for importing counterfeit drugs and unapproved pharmaceuticals into the U.S., ABC News reported. The pharmacy, Canada Drugs, branded itself as a safe alternative for patients in need of drugs that sell for high prices in the U.S. U.S. prosecutors said the company’s business model is based on selling illegally imported misbranded and unapproved drugs from all over the world, according to ABC News.

19-year-old says he believed documents were 'free to just download' from province's FOIPOP web portal.

A pipeline owned by Paramount Resources Ltd. released an estimated 100,000 litres of crude oil and 190,000 litres of produced water near Zama City, in northwest Alberta, according to an April 11 incident report filed with the Alberta Energy Regulator.

A charitable foundation asked CBC for time to find a storage space for the archive, but was turned down.

Bringing down bridges, melting cars, poisoning rivers; it’s hard to think of something salt isn’t ruining

Ottawa police have arrested one suspect and are looking for two others after employees at a bitcoin financial institution were held up at gunpoint Tuesday. The attempted robbery happened on Concourse Gate off Colonnade Road just before 11 a.m., police said in a media release issued Wednesday.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has warned social networking giant Facebook it needs to fix its “fake news” problems or face stronger regulation from Ottawa. Trudeau told Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg in November he was concerned the company wasn’t doing enough to stop the spread of misleading information on their platform, a source with direct knowledge of the conversation told the Star. Facebook has been under intense international scrutiny for allowing so-called “fake news” — false and often outlandish information presented as legitimate journalism — to propagate on its network.

An astonishing number of viruses are circulating around the Earth's atmosphere - and falling from it - according to new research from scientists in Canada, Spain and the U.S.