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Police say a set of traffic lights at a busy intersection aren’t working following a crash in Mississauga. The two-vehicle collision happened shortly after 6 p.m. at the intersection of Dixie Road and Dundas Street East in Mississauga, Peel Regional Police say. One of the drivers suffered minor injuries in the crash, police say. No additional details about the victim have been disclosed.

Thursday’s forecast calls for a high near 20 C in the Greater Toronto Area and winds up to 30 km/h in southern Ontario. Environment and Climate Change Canada says the morning is expected to be sunny in Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton, Oshawa, Burlington and the Niagara Falls area. Winds will be blowing around 20 km/h in the morning in Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, and Niagara Falls, with 30 km/h winds in Hamilton and Burlington.

Police have closed a highway on-ramp following a crash in Mississauga. The crash happened shortly before 5 p.m. on the ramp from northbound Cawthra Road onto Queen Elizabeth Way, Ontario 511 says. The OPP’s Highway Safety Division says two vehicles were involved in the collision and injuries are being assessed. The ramp from northbound Cawthra Road to the QEW has been closed and police said in an update shortly before 6:15 p.m. that drivers should avoid the area.

A viral post on the social media platform X this week shared a claim that mail-in voting for Alberta’s Oct. 19 referendum is “open to anybody” without verification of whether applicants live in the province. Other social media users posted screenshots suggesting they had been able to apply for a mail-in ballot using fake addresses outside the province.

Mississauga’s firefighters are sounding the alarm that staff shortages and not enough fire trucks on the road are putting people’s safety at risk across the city. However, the City of Mississauga pushed back on Wednesday, saying public safety is not being compromised and that the response time of fire vehicles to emergencies in Canada’s seventh-largest city continues to meet Mississauga’s high standard.

Defence Minister David McGuinty says it’s very concerning that the suspect in Sunday’s shooting outside a Belleville, Ont., synagogue was a former soldier. Sean Ward, who died in hospital after a shootout with police outside the Sons of Jacob synagogue, was a member of the Canadian Armed Forces for about five years before he was released in June 2022.

Federal government departments and agencies are set to spend more than $18 million to get their employees to work in the office more often. Thousands of federal public servants started a new work schedule in July requiring them to be on-site in the office four days a week. Executive public servants returned to the office full-time in May.

Brampton firefighters will showcase their skills and learn new life-saving techniques at an international rescue competition in B.C. this week. “It’s all kept under lock and key. You have no idea what you’re getting into, so you can’t pre-plan, you can’t prep,” Brampton Fire and Emergency Service fire fighter Tim Dupuis says of the True North Rescue Challenge. “You just bring all your equipment and hope for the best,” he said in an interview with INSAUGA Canada.

A Newmarket, Ont., court is hearing from loved ones of people who took their own lives using products purchased from Kenneth Law. More than 70 victim impact statements are set to be presented at a sentencing hearing for Law, a Mississauga man, who has pleaded guilty to 14 counts of aiding suicide in the deaths of 14 people in Ontario. The court has heard that the deaths of 79 people in the United Kingdom have also been linked to Law, and those are being considered as part of his sentencing.

An Ontario court has quashed a decision denying provincial coverage for out-of-country cancer treatment to a young father with Stage 4 melanoma, saying the government offered no basis for its main reasoning. Alex Shved’s oncologist had applied to the Ontario Health Insurance Plan to fund tumour-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy for him in the United States, but that was denied both in an original decision and in a reconsideration.