A woman in her 80s has died after being struck by a tree branch in Mississauga, said police. Officers responded around 2:30 p.m. on Friday near High Street E. and Lakeshore Road E. for a medical assist call, said Peel police in an emailed statement. They located a woman who had been hit by a tree branch that had fallen due to high winds. She was later pronounced dead at the hospital, said police.
Mississauga firefighters are shown here at the scene of collision on Thursday evening that left a man injured and a male youth in life-threatening condition. (CBC News) Two people have been taken to hospital, one in life-threatening condition, following a collision in Mississauga on Thursday evening, Peel police say. The crash between two vehicles happened on Millcreek Drive and Erin Mills Parkway, police said.
A house fire in Mississauga on Halloween night is being investigated as suspicious, Peel police say. Just before 9 p.m. Friday, officers responded to a residential fire in the area of Mississauga and Kane roads, where they found Mississauga Fire and Emergency Services crews working to extinguish a blaze at a two-storey home, Peel police said in an email. The house sustained heavy damage as a result.
Because it's an Islamic centre, because of the sensitive nature of that location, this is a place of worship, it's a place where people from the Islamic community gather, of course we're considering that this may be hate motivated," he told CBC Toronto on Friday.
Ontario hasn't provided a public update on when a major Mississauga transit line will be completed in more than five years, according to internal documents, as work continues on the light-rail project originally set to open last fall. Premier Doug Ford's government first awarded a contract to build the Hurontario LRT in October 2020 and pegged the completion date to the fall of 2024. Partway through 2025, the line has yet to open.
