Parents of infant who died in wrong-way crash on Ontario's Hwy. 401 were in same vehicle
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has released new details about a wrong-way collision in Whitby on Monday night that claimed the lives of four people.
A decades-long study in the Netherlands is proving how beneficial sports and physical activity are for young children and how the impacts can last into adult life.
The report published in March 2023 showcases the positive outcome that physical activity has on children from a young age and how it can help their overall mental health later in life. The findings were published in JAMA Journal of Psychiatry.
The study is part of a longer-term project called "Generation R" led by the University of Rotterdam. It is an ongoing population-based project that researches people from their birth to young adulthood in urban populations in the Netherlands.
Participants were born between April 2002 and January 2006 and over the course of their lives participate in ongoing check-ins.
For this study, 4,216 children were asked questions at ages six, 10 and 13 years old. About 50 per cent were girls.
At the first visit (age six) and third (age 13) researchers assessed psychiatric symptoms using the Child Behaviour Checklist. At the second visit (age 10) researchers assessed neurobiological mechanisms of the brain.
At age 10, the participants were also tested for psychological mechanisms including self-esteem, body image and friendship. Behavioural mechanisms completed at the second visit included sleep quality, diet and recreational screen time.
The study found more sports participation at a young age was associated with better self-esteem later in life.
Positive self-esteem, the study noted, was a key factor in children who played sports versus those who did not.
The study concludes no other evidence was found for sports aiding other neurological, psychological or behavioural variables, but mentioned more research was needed to see if sports can mitigate issues for children at higher risk of developing mental health issues.
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has released new details about a wrong-way collision in Whitby on Monday night that claimed the lives of four people.
Three men in Quebec from the same family have fathered more than 600 children.
A British Columbia mayor has been censured by city council – stripping him of his travel and lobbying budgets and removing him from city committees – for allegedly distributing a book that questions the history of Indigenous residential schools in Canada.
A spike in impaired driving-related collisions has caused Ontario’s provincial police to begin enforcing mandatory alcohol screening (MAS) at all traffic stops in the Greater Toronto Area -- a move one civil rights group says is ‘not acceptable.’
William Nylander scored twice and Joseph Woll made 22 saves as the Toronto Maple Leafs downed the Boston Bruins 2-1 on Thursday to force Game 7 in their first-round series.
Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump heard a recording Thursday of him discussing with his then-lawyer and personal fixer a plan to purchase the silence of a Playboy model who has said she had an affair with the former president.
Staff at a small southern Alberta office supply store were shocked to find someone had broken into the business last week, but they were even more confused when they discovered the culprit was a bear.
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a scuba dive boat captain to four years in custody and three years supervised release for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel.
Fake text message and email campaigns trying to get money and information out of unsuspecting Canadian taxpayers have started circulating, just months after the federal government rebranded the carbon tax rebate the Canada Carbon Rebate.
Three men in Quebec from the same family have fathered more than 600 children.
A group of SaskPower workers recently received special recognition at the legislature – for their efforts in repairing one of Saskatchewan's largest power plants after it was knocked offline for months following a serious flood last summer.
A police officer on Montreal's South Shore anonymously donated a kidney that wound up drastically changing the life of a schoolteacher living on dialysis.
Since 1932, Montreal's Henri Henri has been filled to the brim with every possible kind of hat, from newsboy caps to feathered fedoras.
Police in Oak Bay, B.C., had to close a stretch of road Sunday to help an elephant seal named Emerson get safely back into the water.
Out of more than 9,000 entries from over 2,000 breweries in 50 countries, a handful of B.C. brews landed on the podium at the World Beer Cup this week.
Raneem, 10, lives with a neurological condition and liver disease and needs Cholbam, a medication, for a longer and healthier life.
The lawyer for a residential school survivor leading a proposed class-action defamation lawsuit against the Catholic Church over residential schools says the court action is a last resort.
Mounties in Nanaimo, B.C., say two late-night revellers are lucky their allegedly drunken antics weren't reported to police after security cameras captured the men trying to steal a heavy sign from a downtown business.