CJ LaFrance
Tuesday January 6 2009
A golden moment... PRICELESS: Cody Hodgson hoists the trophy after Team Canada won gold at the IIHF world junior hockey championship in Ottawa Monday. Canada defeated Sweden 5-1. This is Canada's fifth straight gold medal at the tournament. Hodgson plays centre for the Brampton Battalion.
Toll charges for Hwy. 407 will change next month Tuesday January 6 2009
The company that operates Highway 407 has announced toll charges will change starting next month.As of Feb. 1, 407 Express Toll Route (ETR) peak-hour tolls for light vehicles between Highway 403 and the QEW in Burlington and Highway 400 will be 19.85 cents per kilometre. Peak-hour tolls for light vehicles between Highway 400 and BrockRoad in Pickering will be 19.25 cents per kilometre. The off-peak toll rate for the entire highway is being held at 2008 levels.Transponder customers will receive a reduction in their monthly transponder lease fee. The company also announced that it will introduce a trip toll charge of 25 cents for light vehicles for each trip taken on the highway."These changes keep traffic moving while maintaining affordable rates," said Antonio de Santiago, 407 ETR president CEO in a...
More drinking and driving charges laid this holiday Tuesday January 6 2009
By PAM DOUGLAS
More drinking drivers were ferreted out by Holiday RIDE spot checks on Brampton and Mississauga roads this year compared to last, statistics show.Peel police stopped 35 per cent fewer vehicles, but charged 39 per cent more drivers with the crime of drinking and driving.During the 35-day campaign, 29,456 drivers were checked in Brampton and Mississauga, and 132 were charged. That is up from the 2007 campaign when 45,300 drivers were checked and 95 charged.Another 217 escaped charges this season, but had their licences taken away from them on the spot for 12 hours for having just below the legal limit of alcohol in their systems (more than .05 per cent but less than .08 per cent blood alcohol concentration).In all, Peel police say they found one driver who had been drinking (more than .05 per cent BAC) for every 223 drivers...
Grandma of murdered student won't be deported
Tuesday January 6 2009 A 79-year-old Sri Lankan grandmother has won an 11th-hour reprieve from deportation so she can...
Brampton resident to attend Obama's inauguration
Tuesday January 6 2009 By ASHLEY GOODFELLOW Decades from now, Brampton resident Daniele Magditsch will be able to tell her children and...
Two more teenaged shooting victims
Tuesday January 6 2009 A Brampton teenager is in serious but stable condition with a collapsed lung after being shot...
Tenants livid after coffin wheeled in to apartment building elevator
Tuesday January 6 2009 By PAM DOUGLAS Some residents of a Bramalea apartment building say they couldn't believe their eyes when a...
Mayor Susan Fennell's mother dies
Tuesday January 6 2009 Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell’s mother, Dorothy Biefer, died at Peel Manor Tuesday morning. She was...
Gun used in shootout with police used to murder Brampton teen days earlier
Monday January 5 2009 Pam Douglas The gun used to kill a Brampton teen was also used in a shootout between Peel police officers and a...
Brampton family brings venomous spider home from grocery store
Friday January 2 2009 By PETER CRISCIONE Brampton resident Roseanne Power picked up a little more than she bargained for at the supermarket...
Bolton man dead after collision with truck
Friday January 2 2009 Peel police are looking for witnesses to a crash that killed a Bolton man in northeast Brampton on...
Brampton man charged with sex assault on 13-year-old
Friday January 2 2009 A Brampton man is accused of sexually molesting a 13-year-old Toronto girl he met in a chat room...
Boy makes an early entrance to become Brampton's first born in 2009
Friday January 2 2009 By PETER CRISCIONE Just minutes after revelers in Brampton raised their glasses for a celebratory toast, little Kenneth...
Ontario releases data on two more hospital superbugs
Wednesday December 31 2008 Peter Criscione Queen’s Park has released rates for two more deadly hospital infections as part of an ongoing...
Police release photos of robbery suspects
Tuesday December 30 2008 Peel police are asking for help in identifying two suspects they believe are responsible for two...
Tuesday January 6 2009 A 79-year-old Sri Lankan grandmother has won an 11th-hour reprieve from deportation so she can...
Tuesday January 6 2009 By ASHLEY GOODFELLOW Decades from now, Brampton resident Daniele Magditsch will be able to tell her children and...
Tuesday January 6 2009 A Brampton teenager is in serious but stable condition with a collapsed lung after being shot...
Tuesday January 6 2009 By PAM DOUGLAS Some residents of a Bramalea apartment building say they couldn't believe their eyes when a...
Tuesday January 6 2009 Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell’s mother, Dorothy Biefer, died at Peel Manor Tuesday morning. She was...
Monday January 5 2009 Pam Douglas The gun used to kill a Brampton teen was also used in a shootout between Peel police officers and a...
Friday January 2 2009 By PETER CRISCIONE Brampton resident Roseanne Power picked up a little more than she bargained for at the supermarket...
Friday January 2 2009 Peel police are looking for witnesses to a crash that killed a Bolton man in northeast Brampton on...
Friday January 2 2009 A Brampton man is accused of sexually molesting a 13-year-old Toronto girl he met in a chat room...
Friday January 2 2009 By PETER CRISCIONE Just minutes after revelers in Brampton raised their glasses for a celebratory toast, little Kenneth...
Wednesday December 31 2008 Peter Criscione Queen’s Park has released rates for two more deadly hospital infections as part of an ongoing...
Tuesday December 30 2008 Peel police are asking for help in identifying two suspects they believe are responsible for two...
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