A 69-year-old man is dead after being struck by a vehicle in Pickering.

Police in Durham Region say a black SUV was driving through the parking lot of the Brookdale Centre near Highway 2 and Walnut Lane just after 10 p.m. Saturday when it struck a pedestrian, trapping the man under the vehicle.

“Responding police officers lifted the Ford SUV to extract the pedestrian and performed life-saving measures,” police said in a release. “Despite the efforts of emergency services personnel,

CALGARY — The Calgary Stampede is more than a rodeo. It’s a runway for western fashion that politicians strut down each year.

Politicians of all stripes attend the annual exhibition and rodeo, considered a celebration of everything western.

The cowboy hats, belt buckles, denim and boots that leaders pull on show that politics and wardrobe go hand in hand, say fashion experts.

“Stampede is really about performance. It’s not just Sunday best. It’s something else,” said Paul Hardy, a Canadian

CALGARY — Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to attend the last day of this year’s Calgary Stampede.

Carney attended the annual rodeo and exhibition Saturday night, munching on mini doughnuts and taking in some chuckwagon races.

He also talked pipelines with some in the crowd.

Carney was in Calgary just last week to announce, with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, a plan for a new oil pipeline to the West Coast.

Carney is set to first stop this morning at a Stampede breakfast then head to the Stampede grounds.

Last

CIGAR LAKE, SASK. — Taryn Roske lost her job twice when the nuclear industry had ground to a halt.

The Cameco employee and hundreds of others were laid off from the company’s Rabbit Lake mine in northern Saskatchewan after it shut down in 2016.

“I had to sell my house,” Roske said in a recent interview. “I ended up taking a loss on that, because the housing market was in a horrible place.”

Four months later, she got a job at Cameco

Five people are in custody following an early morning shooting at Polson Pier.

Toronto police say they responded to reports of a shooting just before 3:30 a.m. in the area of Polson Street and Cherry Street.

When they arrived, they found three people suffering from gunshot wounds. They were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Investigators say five people were taken into custody, however, they did not provide any ages or genders of the suspects and/or victims.

Police say one

A Brampton man is facing 10 charges after an early morning shooting at Polson Pier.

Toronto police say there was an exchange of gunfire between two people just before 3:30 a.m. in the area of Polson Street and Cherry Street.

“After discharging his firearm, the accused stole a vehicle from a rideshare driver that had customers on board,” police said in an updated release. “While fleeing the scene, the accused struck pedestrians and vehicles.”

Investigators say two people were taken to the

MONTREAL — At 10:30 a.m. last Monday, about a dozen employees at Bethesda Game Studios in Montreal learned they would be laid off.

The group, part of a larger team of 120 at the Xbox-owned company, had been riding high with the ongoing success of action role-playing video game “Fallout 76” and another one called “The Elder Scrolls VI” in the works.

Instead, roughly 10 per cent of them were told via video conference by

A Ukrainian attack in southwest Russia killed one person and wounded three more, local officials said Sunday, as Kyiv’s forces continued to bombard Russia’s oil facilities.

The head of Russia’s Samara region, Gov. Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, said that a child was among the injured. He also said that residential homes and apartment buildings were damaged in the strike, as well as an unspecified “industrial site.”

Russian media outlets reported that the attack’s target was the region’s Syzran Oil Refinery,