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A shopping plaza in the occident end of Toronto has been evacuated after some armed husband barricaded himself intimate a Swiss Chalet restaurant, police say.

Staff Sgt. Glen Dewling at 22 Division told CBC News that police were dispatched to 1255 The Queensway after receiving a call shortly after 4 p.m. Friday. They were told a man presented a note to a handicraftsman inside the restaurant and the reckoning indicated he had a gun.

They would not confirm or deny that a hostage situation was under way.

Police are at the scene and have blocked right side the circuit at Queensway and Kipling Avenue. They have warned humbler classes to stay begone from the definite space.

TTC is diverting buses not present from the area.

Two the many the crowd were killed in a helicopter sound splintering in northern Ontario, provincial police declare.

The splinter occurred around 2 p.household. ET on Friday between at Elk Lake and Gowganda, around 200 kilometres south of Timmins.

Members of the Ontario Provincial Police are at the show of the crash.

Officials with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada are forward their tendency of action to investigate.

The names of those killed are being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

Canada isn’t doing enough to fight AIDS at home or around the terraqueous globe, the Canadian head of the International AIDS Society before-mentioned Friday.

In his closing address to the International AIDS Conference in Vienna on Friday, conference supreme Dr. Julio Montaner slammed Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq.

“I would also equal to wish a especial vocable of recognition to the prime divine of Canada, Mr. Stephen Harper … beneficial to demonstrating, yet again, their beyond belief ability to take credit where none is due.”

Montaner, undivided of Canada’s most prominent AIDS researchers, aforesaid the federal government is “punching hearty in the under world its weight” in funding international efforts to contend the disorder and isn’privately doing sufficiency to patronize Canadians from its spread.

U.S. support

U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged U.S. support in the global fight against AIDS in pre-recorded video statements at the cease of the International AIDS Conference in Vienna on Friday.

“Ending this pandemic won’t have being easy, and it won’t happen overnight,” Obama told delegates gathered for the conference’s closing ceremony. “But expressions of gratitude to you, we’ve come a long way — and the United States is committed to continuing that progress.”

In her comments, Clinton said the U.S. believes access to HIV/AIDS obstruction, treatment and care should have existence a all and shared responsibility, and called health a like a human being right.

A 4.1-magnitude earthquake has hit the Quebec City region.

The quake struck at 1:24 p.m. ET and its epicentre was at Laurier Station, southwest of the incorporated town, according to the Geological Survey of Canada.

Although the tremor was felt through many, it doesn’t strike unit as being to consider been massive enough to cause at all serious harm.

Fred Conron, who lives in Cap Rouge, was having a nap and pondering his wife of one’s bosom was irksome to put in action him when what he actually felt was the ground shaking.

“But then I looked around there was no one here, and then the bed was still moving,” he said.

Conron said he didn’t see any other objects moving in the range, so he thought he fustiness be in actual possession of been dreaming.

“But in fact I wasn’t totally convinced of that one and the other because that would be the highest dream of that sort I’ve ever had.” he before-mentioned.

Conron said in that place was no damage and the shudder lasted just a pair of seconds.

Last month, a 5.0-magnitude quake damaged roads and diverse buildings as it rumbled thwart western Quebec and southern and eastern Ontario.

Mike Weir, centre, looks up while walking down the fairway after hitting his tee ball on the second hole during second-round revel at the Canadian Open in Toronto on Friday. (Nathan Denette/Canadian Press)

Mike Weir likely won’t be sticking encompassing toward the weekend at the Canadian Open.

The lefty from Bright’sitting Grove, Ont., reach a second-round 74 on Friday and was sitting several shots unbecoming the projected cut-line.

Weir last missed the 36-hole divide at his family tournament in 2006.

This was a particularly tough week for the veteran golfer, who wore a black band on his proper forearm for the cause that of tendinitis.

Weir struggled to find the fairways at St. George’s Golf and Country Club in Toronto and was penalized by the heavy rough.

The 40-year-old has missed the cut in four of his last six tournaments.

Sutherland matches course record

It didn’t take very long for some other record performance at St. George’s.

Kevin Sutherland carded an 8-under 62 in his second round, matching the course record set by means of yesterday night chief Brent Delahoussaye.

The American capped the round by sinking a 60-foot putt with respect to birdie at his remain hole, becoming the fifth man to let off a 62 in tournament history.

“For me, it got kind of trifling,” declared Sutherland, who opened through a 73. “The hole just got likewise blustering notwithstanding me. I was making putts from everywhere. I made a putt on the extreme hole, I don’t even know how remote it was.”

Delahoussaye continued to lead in good time in the second round.

He was 3-under instead of the sunlight through 11 holes and three shots up without interruption J.J Henry and Brock Mackenzie.

It was a mingled appointed time instead of Canada’s other surmount pro — Calgary’sitting Stephen Ames shot 68 and was six at the back the leader.

© The Canadian Press, 2010