More than 200,000 people died in the earthquake, and 300,000 more were injured. Countless other lives were changed.

Police confirmed they are investigating the incident

Protesters often wore hoods and covered their faces, probably to avoid being recognized by surveillance cameras. Some online videos purported to show police firing tear gas sporadically, though there was no immediate wholesale crackdown on demonstrators.

Sarnia snapped a nine game loosing streak defeating Hamilton 4-3.

The muddled message Sunday by Esper only added to the public debate regarding the Jan. 3 strike that killed Iran’s most important general, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, and whether there was appropriate justification for the killing.

The Ukrainian jetliner was shot down Wednesday by an Iranian missile, killing all 176 on board, including 57 Canadians and dozens more who were on their way to Canada.

Dale McLean, who is helping manage the response to a fire near the town of Bodalla, was part of a team that was bulldozing down small trees and burning scrub ahead of the fire’s projected path.

An official at Buckingham Palace said the royals will review “a range of possibilities,” and “what the Sussexes said earlier in the week” — they said they wanted to live part-time in North America — will be “taken into account.”

National Weather Service says it was a tornado packing winds of at least 215 km/h that hit Alabama’s Pickens County on Saturday, killing three. Meanwhile in Louisiana, three deaths were blamed on high winds and icy roads blamed for two deaths in Texas.

Work to rule and rotating strikes part of job action that will see public high schools closed Jan. 15

On Saturday, judges from across Europe, many of them dressed in their judicial robes, marched silently in Warsaw in a show of solidarity with their Polish peers.

President Tsai Ing-wen says she wants a peaceful discussion with China, which claims the territory still, 70 years after it broke away from that nation.

Cathedral Gaels defeat St. Thomas More Knights in an all-Hamilton Silver Fox final

The nation has ties to Iran, Israel and leans neither far in favour of any one nation and has been an effective moderator in area conflict.

Research suggests the increasing frequency of wildfires in the boreal forest — the huge belt of green that stretches over the northern reaches of most Canadian provinces — may be permanently changing one of the largest intact ecosystems left on Earth.

Southern Puerto Rico has been gripped by a series of tremors that began Dec. 28 and peaked on Tuesday with a magnitude 6.4 earthquake. Since then, hundreds of aftershocks have followed.

A second emergency alert issued by the Ontario government states “there is no active nuclear situation taking place at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station.”

Rain exceeds wastewater capacity at plant, but locally storm falls short of Environment Canada’s maximum 60 mm estimate

“The use of cloud technology will raise questions about data security and Statistics Canada’s ability to protect sensitive data,” say internal agency notes disclosed through the Access to Information Act.

A 23-year-old man was killed Saturday night when his car left a service road and collided with a truck on the QEW in Beamsville.

A second emergency alert issued by the Ontario government states “there is no active nuclear situation taking place at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station.”

Hamilton police looking for three suspects

A 29-year-old man died at the scene on Upper Wellington Street

One person is dead after a car left a service road and crashed into a truck on the QEW in Beamsville Saturday night.

Would you pay someone famous to pretend to know you?

Rain has exceeded wastewater capacity at plant

“We need full clarity on how such a horrific tragedy could have occurred,” the prime minister told a news conference in Ottawa Saturday.

The 19-year-old’s injures are non-life threatening

“Just imagine what she could have achieved if she ran for office herself,” former premier Mike Harris said of the Ford family matriarch, who died Sunday at 85.

“Everything that’s related to war and people trying to kill each other for the sake of land or oil, it’s always stupid.”

The ground in the island’s south has been shaking since Dec. 28 with more than 1,100 earthquakes, of which more than 66 were of magnitude 3.5 or greater.

“We need full clarity on how such a horrific tragedy could have occurred,” the prime minister told a news conference in Ottawa Saturday.

For the royal family, the loss of such a modern prince is a blow to the institution’s image ahead of some momentous tests for the U.K.

Yellowknife physician says doctors and health-care providers risk becoming disengaged and unprepared to protect people’s health amidst a changing climate.

The admission comes just a day after Iran’s top civil aviation official had rejected allegations from Canada, the U.S. and U.K. that a surface-to-air missile had brought down the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800.

A 19-year-old man and 15-year-old girl were arrested

The five-member panel at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario also suspended Dr. Clarence Clottey’s licence for one year after he pleaded no contest to a charge of professional misconduct.

Two local ACORN chapters organized a rally and protest in support of disabled rights and demanded that the Doug Ford government keep rates up and back off proposed changes to the definition of disability for the purposes of disabled benefits eligibility

Couldn’t journalists and the rest of us give royalty just a little more room to breathe

Derek Jeter is still overrated, FirstOntario Centre doesn’t smell like that and other things to ponder.

Garth Webb Secondary School of Oakville and Sir Allan MacNab of Hamilton played their second games of the Silver Fox Invitational basketball tournament after losing their openers. Webb lost to Saltfleet 73-36 and MacNab lost to St. Thomas More 55-44.

The RCMP issued a statement Wednesday saying it has launched a criminal investigation into traps likely to cause bodily harm.

Most elementary school field trips, sports and other extracurricular activities will come to a halt next week.

The Ukrainian passenger jet that went down Wednesday in Iran left 176 people dead, including 11 Ukrainians.

Sami Bebawi convicted for paying off and accepting cash in Libya deals.

It was an emotional scene as the relatives of crash victims Iman Aghabali and Mehdi Eshaghian addressed the crowd of more than 300 via Skype from Iran

The loss of Iranian-Canadians is profound in the academic world, say university colleagues across Canada.

His death early Friday followed a period of declining health that saw an outpouring of support from both politicians and average citizens.

A family statement says Peart, who was also the lyricist for the iconic rock band, died in Santa Monica, Calif., after battling brain cancer for more than three years.

A former Toronto pastor was granted bail on Friday, just days after being sentenced to 15 years behind bars in the drowning death of his pregnant wife.