The father of a four-year-old girl who was struck and killed by a GO train in Mississauga, Ont. last week is speaking out for the first time since the accident. Emmanuel Nwabuoku told CP24 on Tuesday his daughter, Mitchell, was fatally struck by a train last week while she out playing with her siblings. “Mitchell is an angel, she talks like an angel. Mitchell acts like an angel,” Nwabuoku said. He said his daughter left the apartment with her older siblings to go down to get ice cream at theRead more

Canadian period pain relief company Somedays is providing non-menstruating people with a new perspective on how excruciating period pain can be. Lux Perry, CEO and co-founder of Somedays, brought a period pain simulator to this year’s Calgary Stampede to show men and people who don’t have periods the levels of pain menstruating people experience. To their surprise, attendees at the stampede were willing and open to gain a new perspective. “It was a little bit shocking to see how much compassion there was,” Perry said Tuesday in an interview on CTV’sRead more

Bernardo and Arthur Lima aren’t like other twins — they were born conjoined, sharing not only the top of their heads and part of the brain, but a major vein that connects to the heart. Now, a breakthrough surgery, made possible in part by surgeons working together virtually, has hopefully given the boys a chance at life like any other pair of brothers. The pair were operated on shortly before their fourth birthday, making them the oldest twins with a fused brain to have been successfully separated. For months, surgeonsRead more

An 11-year-old girl missing from Stratford, Ont. has been found safe. Around 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, Stratford police confirmed by phone the child has been found safe in Toronto. An Amber Alert was issued around half an hour earlier at 5:37 p.m. In a tweet, Stratford police said she was located with the assistance of Ontario Provincial Police and York Regional Police. Police said the investigation is ongoing.

The woman who filed a lawsuit against Hockey Canada over an alleged group sexual assault recently passed a polygraph examination, her lawyer said Tuesday. A statement released Tuesday by Robert Talach of Beckett Personal Injury Lawyers said that the woman “successfully passed that ‘lie-detector test’ with a rating of ‘truthful.”‘ The result of the polygraph test, which was arranged by the complainant’s lawyer, was provided to the London Police, the Hockey Canada review and the NHL investigators. The woman alleged eight players — including members of Canada’s 2018 world juniorRead more