Man and woman found dead during wellness check in Barrie

Barrie Police are investigating the death of a man and woman who were found deceased inside a home on Saturday.

Officers were called to a residence in the area of St. Vincent Street and Osprey Ridge Road for a wellness check and discovered the two individuals who were unresponsive.

“The victims are believed to be known to each other, and the incident appears isolated,” police wrote in a statement.

“There will be a police presence in the area as the investigation continues,” authorities added.

No other details were

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Counterterror police investigate after 5 hurt in Edinburgh attacks that appeared to target Muslims

LONDON (AP) — Counterterrorism detectives in Scotland were investigating after five people were injured in attacks in Edinburgh that appeared to target Muslims, police said Saturday.

Police Scotland said that a 36-year-old man was arrested late Friday after officers received multiple reports of attacks in the west and north of the city.

The force said that five men — two of them age 22, and others ages 24, 27 and 39 — sustained a range of injuries and three needed hospital treatment. None

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Home damaged in Chinatown shooting, Toronto police investigating

Toronto police are investigating a shooting that took place in Chinatown early Saturday morning.

Officers were called to the area of Baldwin and Beverley Streets just before 4:30 a.m. for reports regarding the sound of gunshots.

Authorities say evidence of gunfire was located in a residential area and confirmed that a gun was discharged after damage was found to a home in the neighbourhood. No injuries were reported.

A police investigation is ongoing.

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Toronto Marlies win American Hockey League’s Calder Cup

The Toronto Marlies have won the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup.

Vinni Lettieri’s power-play goal in the second period stood as the winner as the Marlies edged the Chicago Wolves 4-3 on Friday in Game 5 of the best-of-seven championship series.

Toronto won the series 4-1 for the team’s second AHL title. The Marlies also won in 2018.

Benoit-Olivier Groulx and Jacob Quillan also scored in the second period for Toronto, the minor-

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Woman shot in apartment building near Moss Park, police say

A woman was shot in an apartment building in downtown Toronto early Saturday morning, according to police.

Emergency crews were called to the area of Jarvis and Dundas Streets at approximately 9:30 a.m. for reports of a shooting.

Police say the victim was located at the scene with serious, life-threatening injuries, and transported to a hospital by paramedics.

No suspect description was provided, but police say an investigation is ongoing.

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Trump deepens the dustup with Italy’s Meloni, who says his ‘unprovoked attacks are senseless’

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out at Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni , insisting that she asked “over and over” for a photo with him at the recent Group of Seven summit and criticizing what he said was Italy’s lack of cooperation during the Iran war.

The remarks deepen the spat that began this week with the Republican president’s interview with an Italian broadcaster, during which Trump claimed Meloni “begged” for the photo during the G7 meeting in France. Meloni has called

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UK police probe cause of train collision that killed driver and left 9 in critical condition

LONDON (AP) — Nine people were in critical condition on Saturday after a collision between two passenger trains in central England the night before killed the driver of one of the locomotives, police said.

British Transport Police Chief Constable Lucy D’Orsi said more than 80 people were treated in hospitals after the crash late Friday afternoon, and 28 remained hospitalized a day later.

Buckingham Palace said King Charles III “is greatly saddened” by the crash. It said “his thoughts and sympathies are with the family of

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Employees of GTA snow and landscaping company still waiting to be paid

Former employees of a snow removal and landscaping company are hoping recent developments will lead to them finally getting paid.

In January, CityNews reported that workers of a Vaughan-based company operating under multiple names, including Snow Pros LTD and Grass Guys, claimed they were owed thousands of dollars in back pay. At that time, the owner said he would be selling assets to pay back the workers.

But many of the workers, such as Luis Contreras, say that still hasn’t happened. He received a notice of

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Iran closes Strait of Hormuz again and says its negotiating team with US is heading to Switzerland

TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Iran dealt two quick blows to the interim agreement with the United States on Saturday, angered by Israel’s continued attacks in Lebanon , saying it had closed the Strait of Hormuz and announcing that while its negotiators were going to Switzerland for talks, not much is likely to happen there.

Key mediator Pakistan, meanwhile, said the technical-level talks will begin on Sunday in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, with Qatari mediators also participating.

In Tehran’s first salvo, Iran’

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Bid to narrow transparency law ‘a move in the wrong direction,’ info watchdog says

OTTAWA — Information commissioner Caroline Maynard says a federal proposal to narrow the scope of the Access to Information Act is a move in the wrong direction that could exclude “entire swaths of government-held records” from public scrutiny.

Maynard makes the blunt warning in a newly published submission to the Treasury Board Secretariat’s latest review of the access regime.

The department issued a policy document in March that set out possible changes to the Access to Information system and solicited feedback from interested parties.

The policy paper acknowledges shortcomings in the

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