Stephen Mitchell Jr., from Toronto, was 21 when he died in March. His name is one among 14 listed in Ontario court records as belonging to victims of Kenneth Law, who is accused of abetting suicides. Mitchell's father is remembering him as a "great young man."

The tornadoes that ripped across suburban Ottawa and near Montreal on Thursday highlight a growing concern for researchers. Preliminary data trends suggest Canada’s most densely populated zone, in Ontario and Quebec, may become the country's epicentre for twisters, with increasingly devastating consequences.

Assembling heavily protected trucks for a battle nearly 8,000 kilometres away is demanding labour, but some Ukrainians working at the Roshel armoured vehicle plant near Toronto consider it their way of contributing to the war effort back home.