Four young men are facing charges after an armed carjacking in the driveway of a Brampton home last weekend.

Peel Regional Police officers were called to a home near Mayfield and Creditview roads in Brampton on Saturday for reports of a robbery.

Police allege a male victim parked his vehicle in the driveway of the residence and was standing near the trunk when he was approached by four suspects. The group allegedly forced the victim inside the home at gunpoint and demanded the keys ot the vehicle.

The suspects left the area in the stolen car

VANCOUVER — Aritzia Inc.’s stock rose almost 21 per cent on Thursday as the market responded to the company’s latest earnings and several analysts upgraded their rating on the company.

Shares in the Vancouver-based retailer closed $5.55 higher at $32.01.

The spike came on the heels of Aritzia’s latest financial results, which showed the company’s net income dropped by 39 per cent to $43.1 million.

Net revenue for its third

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A bomb threat sent an anti-explosives unit scrambling into a bustling area of Ecuador’s tense capital Thursday while authorities in an eastern city reported a nightclub arson killed two people as the South American country .

Police in the capital, Quito, said they evacuated people from the area surrounding the Playón de la Marín bus station when they were alerted about a backpack with an alleged explosive placed in a garbage can.

The backpack turned out to not have any explosives,

HELSINKI (AP) — Finland said Thursday it would extend the closure of its border with Russia for another month because it suspects Moscow is trying to undermine the Nordic country’s security by sending undocumented migrants across the frontier.

Finland closed the border late last year after 1,300 migrants without proper documentation or visas had arrived across the frontier since September — an unusually high number, just months after Finland joined the NATO alliance.

Finland accused Russia of deliberating ushering the migrants to its normally heavily controlled border. The

When it comes to her mobile phone plan, Rita Barnes has been with big and small carriers across the spectrum of Canada’s telecommunications sector.

She knows how well — or not — each of them fit her cost, data and customer service preferences.

Now, with her university-age son considering a move to Guelph or Waterloo, Ont., the Toronto woman finds herself on the hunt for a plan that matches his needs. She said her family’s top priority is ensuring he has reliable service with whichever

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up his latest urgent Mideast tour on Thursday in talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi as American officials claimed modest success in getting wide regional support for planning for reconstruction and governance in Gaza after Israel’s war with Hamas ends.

But progress is uncertain because Israel’s far-right government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not on board with several key points and it remains unclear if it can be convinced to accept them.

Still, Blinken secured buy

VISEGRAD, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — With predictable seasonality, tons of garbage floats down a river at least twice a year and ends up near the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad behind a barrier installed by a local hydroelectric plant.

An environmental activist watched as workers removed trash from the river.

“New year, new problems or rather old problems with new garbage floating our way,” Dejan Furtula of the environmental group Eko Centar Visegrad said Wednesday.

Garbage from unauthorized waste dumps dotting the Western Balkans is carried year-

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A government agency says it is investigating four fatal shootings by police officers in the span of 24 hours, including that of a 14-year-old boy.

The Independent Commission of Investigations says police killed three people on Tuesday and another on Wednesday, with authorities alleging all four victims opened fire on the officers under investigation for the shootings.

Two of the killings happened in the capital of Kingston, including that of a high school student and another of an unknown victim

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A grenade explosion in Afghanistan’s capital killed two people and wounded 12 in a Shiite neighborhood of Kabul on Thursday, a police spokesman said. It was the in the Dasht-e-Barchi area in less than a week.

The explosion occurred outside a commercial center in mid-afternoon. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast, but the Islamic State group’s affiliate in Afghanistan has Dasht-e-Barchi.

A resident and member of the Shiite community in