WAWA, ON – The North East Region Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Crime Prevention and Investigation Unit, the OPP Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB), the OPP Forensic Identification Services (FIS), and the Office of the Chief Coroner and the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service (OCC-OFPS), are [Read more]
Ontario Fire Marshal releases preliminary findings The Office of the Fire Marshal (OFM) has confirmed that there was a delay in the detection of the fatal fire that occurred at72 Howard Avenuein Sharon (East Gwillimbury). Four family members tragically perished in the March 29 fire. Preliminary [Read more]
Expert Panel Continues to Review Air Ambulance Files An Expert Panel of the Office of the Chief Coroner is continuing to identify and review cases in which operational issues pertaining to air ambulance transport by ORNGE may have affected the patient’s outcome. The Expert Panel, formed in [Read more]
ORILLIA, ON – At the request of the Office of the Chief Coroner (OCC), members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) are conducting a death investigation following the roof collapse at the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake. The death investigation being [Read more]
Review of 16 deaths in Pikangikum First Nation leads to recommendations Dr. Andrew McCallum, Chief Coroner for Ontario, today released a report entitled The Office of the Chief Coroner’s Death Review of the Youth Suicides at the Pikangikum First Nation 2006 – 2008. The report is a [Read more]
