An on-duty Ontario Provincial Police officer with 17 years of service has been charged with impaired driving.
Provincial police said Thursday that their Southern Georgian Bay detachment opened an investigation involving one of the officers at the detachment in Midland.
The OPP said Const. Christopher Prout, 39, was arrested and charged with operation while impaired with alcohol and operation with blood-alcohol concentration above the legal threshold for impaired driving.
The officer has been suspended with pay in accordance with the Community Safety and Police Act and the OPP Professional Standards Unit is conducting an internal investigation.
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Police said that eight people have been hospitalized with undisclosed injuries after a reported chemical hazard in a residential building in North York on late Sunday afternoon.
Toronto Police said on the social-media platform X that officers responded at 5:04 p.m. to reports of a chemical hazard in a residential building in the Sheppard Ave.-Yonge St. area and that there were “some evacuations.”
Police said TTC shelter buses were at the scene along with Toronto Fire and paramedics.
Harrison Garden Blvd. was closed between Humberston Dr. and Oakburn Cres.
Police later said that eight people were taken to a hospital and the extent of their injuries was not immediately known.
There were no additional details from police about what type of chemical hazard it might have been.
Toronto Fire, however, told CP24 that they attended the pool area at the condo complex for an issue involving cleaning chemicals. A media officer later told the outlet the incident was “possibly related to pool chemicals.”
Road closures remained in effect.