A pedestrian is dead after being struck by a vehicle on Highway 401 in Kingston overnight. Emergency response crews were called to the collision between Highway 15 and the Montreal Street exits just after 1:30 this morning.
Police said a pedestrian was attempting to cross the highway when they were struck by a vehicle. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene and their identity has not been confirmed at this time.

Prince Edward County OPP have arrested one person in connection with an early morning break and enter.
Yesterday officers were investigating an unrelated matter which led them to the discovery of a break and enter at a business on Wellington Main Street and an individual was located inside the business and subsequently arrested.
As a result of the investigation, a 41 year old female (Jennifer BABIN) from Prince Edward County was arrested and charged with: theft under $5000, Break-and-enter, Mischief and possession of a schedule 1 substance.

As former finance minister Chrystia Freeland prepares to launch a Liberal leadership bid, a source close to her says scrapping the controversial consumer carbon tax will be one of her policy planks. Sources say Freeland is set to announce her leadership run ahead of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday. Freeland also intends to announce dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs to counter Trump’s threat of 25 per cent tariffs on all Canadian goods. A number of Liberal MPs have publicly endorsed Freeland as a candidate for the Liberal leadership. Winnipeg MP Ben Carr and former cabinet colleague Randy Boissonnault added their names to the growing list of Liberals throwing their support behind her.

The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society is calling on the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to force the federal government back to the negotiation table on national reforms to the child welfare system after chiefs voted down proposed changes on two occasions last year.
Consultations were announced on Jan. 7 — one day after the federal government told the AFN in a confidential letter it could not renegotiate a $47.8 billion child welfare reform agreement on a national level.
That $47.8 billion deal was struck between Canada, the Chiefs of Ontario, Nishnawbe Aski Nation and the Assembly of First Nations in July after a nearly two-decades-long legal fight over the federal government’s under-funding of on-reserve child welfare services.

A new analysis suggests female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion. Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women were closely related while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage. An examination of ancient DNA recovered from 57 graves in Dorset in southwest England shows that two-thirds of the individuals were descended from a single maternal lineage. The cemetery was used from around 100 B.C. to 200 A.D.