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Boy dead, police officer seriously injured after incident near Lindsay, Ont. TORONTO -- The province's police watchdog is investigating an interaction between a 33-year-old man and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) near Lindsay, Ont. on Thursday that left the man and a police officer seriously wo...

1-year-old boy dead, OPP officer injured in confrontation near Lindsay, Ont. Boy's father shot by Ontario Provincial Police after alleged abduction A one-year-old boy is dead and two people, including an Ontario Provincial Police officer, were seriously injured after a confrontation near Lindsay, O...

Manitoulin man killed along with OPP officer had distrust of police, relatives say No funeral to be held for 60-year-old Gary Brohman From his apartment, Calvin Blue heard the sirens of police cars come screaming through Gore Bay last Thursday. Then he read on Facebook that there was a serious inci...

SUDBURY -- Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) say that an officer was involved in a three vehicle collision in North Bay and was transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police say a civilian was also sent to hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The collision took ...

Civilian, veteran police officer dead in Manitoulin Island shooting A 28-year veteran of the Ontario Provincial Police, Const. Marc Hovingh, and a civilian have died in a shooting on Manitoulin Island, the police force confirmed Thursday. The incident happened Thursday afternoon, when officers were...

(GORE BAY, ON) – Shortly after 11:00 a.m. on November 19, 2020, two members from the Manitoulin Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were conducting a follow-up investigation related to a property dispute. There was an interaction between a person at the scene and an officer resulting i...

OPP officer and civilian dead after shooting on Manitoulin Island A long-time provincial police officer was killed Thursday in a shooting that also left a civilian dead in the tight-knit community of Manitoulin Island in Ontario’s Georgian Bay. The officer has been identified as Const. Marc Hovingh...

Civilian, veteran police officer dead in Manitoulin Island shooting A 28-year veteran of the Ontario Provincial Police, Const. Marc Hovingh, and a civilian have died in a shooting on Manitoulin Island, the police force confirmed Thursday. The incident happened Thursday afternoon, when officers were...

SIU investigates shooting on Manitoulin Island that left man, OPP officer dead The province's police watchdog is investigating a shooting on Manitoulin island Thursday afternoon that left a man and an Ontario Provincial Police officer dead. In a video posted on Twitter, the Special Investigations U...

SIU investigating after OPP cruiser, pickup truck crash leaves 2 seriously injured The province's police watchdog is investigating after a crash between a police cruiser and a pickup truck sent two people to hospital with serious injuries. On Nov. 17, 2020 around 5:28 p.m., members of Ontario Provi...

OPP officer and civilian seriously hurt in head-on crash in Haldimand County An Ontario Provincial Police officer and the driver of a pickup truck were seriously hurt in a head-on crash south of Caledonia Tuesday evening. Ontario’s police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit, is investigating ...

OPP officer, truck driver seriously injured in head-on collision near Caledonia An Ontario Provincial Police officer and another driver have both been taken to hospital after a pickup truck and a police cruiser collided near Caledonia. It happened at around 5:22 p.m. on Haldimand Road 9, between Yo...

SIU investigating after OPP cruiser, pickup truck crash leaves 2 seriously injured The province's police watchdog is investigating after a crash between a police cruiser and a pickup truck sent two people to hospital with serious injuries. On Nov. 17, 2020 around 5:28 p.m., members of Ontario Provi...

Former local OPP officer recounts struggles with PTSD after friend died in his arms Brian Knowler was never alone. But he felt that way back in 2004 after witnessing a car accident on Highway 42 near Belle River in the Windsor area. Knowler, then 32, was on duty as an Ontario Provincial Police offi...

OPP commissioner defends officers' conduct at site of Indigenous land dispute The head of Ontario's provincial police force is defending his officers' conduct at the site of an Indigenous land dispute that escalated to violence last week. Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Thomas Carrique says ...