A 16-year-old boy has been charged after he allegedly rammed a police car with a stolen vehicle in Ajax.

Durham police say officers saw a Ford pick-up truck driving dangerously in a parking lot in the area of Kingston and Westney roads around 1:35 a.m. on June 11.

They attempted to contain the vehicle during a traffic stop but the suspect allegedly intentionally rammed a police cruiser and fled from officers.

It was later confirmed the vehicle has been stolen from a residence

A 15-year-old boy is facing charges after allegedly threatening a taxi driver with a weapon in Oshawa.

The taxi driver approached a Durham region police officer around 5:40 p.m. on Sunday in the area of Bloor Street East and Ritson Road South.

Police say the taxi driver was close to dropping off the boy at his destination in his taxi when the suspect allegedly brandished what the taxi driver believed was a gun in his waistband and made threats. The suspect then fled the vehicle.

OTTAWA — Liberal MPs shut down a Conservative attempt to have the House of Commons ethics committee investigate the government’s plan to turn unsold condos into affordable housing in British Columbia.

The Liberal government joined with the B.C. government last month to announce a plan to have the governments buy up 2,200 vacant condo units to convert into affordable housing.

The Conservatives recalled the House ethics committee to probe the plan, and B.C. Conservative MP Aaron Gunn moved a motion at today’s emergency

The federal government will invest up to $400 million into Teck Resources Ltd.’s critical minerals processing operations in southern B.C. as Ottawa looks to shore up supplies of metals used in the defence and green energy sectors.

“We are facing a trade war we did not ask for; the most volatile geopolitics since the end of World War II, which has led to the biggest energy crisis in modern history; technological change at a pace not seen in decades, mainly due to AI; and

Rogers Sports & Media shut down its news radio stations in Calgary (660 NewsRadio Calgary), Halifax (95.7 News Radio Halifax), Kitchener (570 NewsRadio Kitchener) and Vancouver (1130 NewsRadio Vancouver) on Tuesday. Vancouver and Calgary’s sports radio stations, Sportsnet 650 and 960, were also shut down.

Eighty employees were affected by the closures in radio. Two hundred and thirty positions were eliminated across Rogers Sports & Media overall.

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LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Justice Department says 24 suspects around the world, three of them in Canada, have been arrested in connection with offences by India-based organized crime groups, including the murder of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia.

Lawrence Bishnoi, a gangster who is in prison in India, and his alleged lieutenant Satinderjeet Singh, also known as Goldy Brar, are charged with ordering Nijjar’s June 2023 assassination outside a Surrey, B.C., gurdwara

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — FIFA said Tuesday it is investigating an incident involving streamer and YouTuber IShowSpeed with a fan in the stands during the World Cup match between Argentina and Cape Verde on Friday.

IShowSpeed was livestreaming the game and could be heard asking a fan in an Argentina jersey what was being said toward him. The fan speaking in Spanish appeared to be telling IShowSpeed, who is Black, to “go cry to the zoo.”

“FIFA strongly condemns racism, hate and discrimination in all forms

PICKERING — Ontario’s alcohol and gaming regulator says the operator of Pickering Casino Resort is facing a $170,000 fine after failing to identify “high risk” patrons and report suspicious activity, including possible signs of money laundering.

The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario says an audit of Pickering Casino Resort showed Great Canadian Entertainment failed to “properly assess and track high-risk patrons that were not subject to required enhanced scrutiny.”

The AGCO says the audit also found that mandatory suspicious transaction reports

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland, who died by suicide in November 2025 after a high-speed chase with police, had early stage chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain abnormality linked to repeated concussions, his family announced Tuesday.

The Boston University CTE Center, which investigates the long-term consequences of repetitive brain trauma in athletes and others, analyzed Kneeland’s brain tissue after his death. Researchers determined Kneeland, who was 24, was in stage one of