Peel Police say the man was trapped under a piece of machinery at around 9:30 a.m. Saturday at a job site in the Steeles Avenue and Chinguacousy area.

Constable Fiona Thivierge tells 680News he suffered serious leg injuries and was rushed into surgery.

As it was a workplace injury, the Ministry of Labour was called to the site to investigate.

“Anybody that was on the job site is being interviewed, obviously, if anybody happened to see the incident occur, then any information that we can (gain) from it would be beneficial, and obviously we would transfer that on to the ministry,” Thivierge said.

CityNews is reporting that the victim is a 30-year-old male.

First, the National Transportation and Safety Board must finish its inspection. Then debris will be removed from the river. Next, a temporary solution will be put in place to return traffic to Washington state’s most important north-south roadway.

Inspectors are working to find out whether the disintegration on Thursday of the heavily used span over the Skagit River, 60 miles north of Seattle and 40 miles south of the Canadian border, was a fluke or a sign of bigger problems.

“These things take time. We want to make sure it’s done right, done thoroughly,” Washington Transportation Department spokesman Bart Treece said.

A trucker was hauling a load of drilling equipment Thursday evening when his load bumped against the steel framework over the bridge. He looked in his rearview mirror and saw the span collapse into the water behind him.

Two vehicles fell into the chilly river. The three people in those vehicles were not seriously hurt.

Motorists should not expect to drive onI-5 between Mount Vernon and Burlington for many weeks and possibly months, Treece said.

Treece asked people to plan for an extra hour to make their way through detours around the collapsed bridge. There are three detour options northbound and two options southbound.

About 71,000 vehicles use that stretch of highway every day. Late Saturday morning, traffic was moving freely through the detours.

“We’re expecting it to get worse as the day progresses,” Treece said, noting that at 11 a.m. cloudy skies and cool weather could be keeping Memorial Day weekend travellers at home.

State transportation officials began working on both a temporary solution and a permanent fix within hours of the bridge collapse, he said.

The goal is to get I-5 open as quickly as possible, while making sure the solution is as safe as possible, he added.

Officials were looking for a temporary, pre-fabricated bridge to replace the 160-foot section that failed, Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday. That option could be in place in weeks. Otherwise, it could be months before a replacement can be built, the governor said.

Inslee said it will cost $15 million to repair the bridge. The federal government has promised $1 million in emergency dollars and more money could come later, according to Washington’s congressional delegation.

Senior police officer M. Gupta said suspected insurgents triggered a land mine blast and fired at the vehicles on Saturday in the Sukma area, about 215 miles (345 kilometres) south of Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh (Chuht-tihs-guhr) state.

Sonia Gandhi, the Congress party president, is calling it a “dastardly attack” on the country’s democratic values.

The rebels have been fighting the central government for more than four decades, demanding land and jobs for tenant farmers and the poor.

Delegates met in Charlottetown for their annual meeting where they discussed the contentious nationwide issue.

Much attention has been focused on player safety in the last few years after a number NHLers suffered serious head injuries.

In 2010 a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests the physical contact significantly increases players’ risk of severe injuries and concussion.

The ban is already in place in Alberta, Quebec and Nova Scotia.

Peewee players are age 11 and 12.

To rousing applause, director Rithy Panh collected the award at a ceremony Saturday night, expressing his gratitude to be able “to have the freedom to do the films I want to do.”

The “Un Certain Regard” accolade, presented one day before the Palme d’Or, is often seen to reward up-and-coming filmmakers and works that transmit original messages and esthetics.

Panh’s film, based on his nightmarish memoir “The Elimination,” documents his own family’s experience under the heavy-handed Communist Party’s Khmer Rouge that resulted in the death of his parents and sisters.

The newspaper cites numerous anonymous sources as part of its 18-month investigation into the Ford family. 680News has not verified the allegations in the Globe article.

A lawyer representing Doug Ford, however, denies the allegations in the article.

As he got into his car Saturday morning, Doug told CityNews he had not read the article in its entirety but that it was disgusting.

“They try to attack my family, attack me – it’s disgusting,” he said outside his Etobicoke home Saturday morning. “Don’t they have anything better to do? I give back my salary, I donate my time. Is that not good enough for you guys?”

Ford then called the media sleaze balls and said the whole situation was “absolutely sickening.”

Several hours later, after having time to digest the story, Coun. Ford spoke with Kiss 92.5′s Maurie Sherman about the allegations in depth.

Coun. Ford said the allegations show how far people are willing to go to bring down the Ford family.

“You know something Maurie, it’s all unnamed sources, that’s the best they’ve got,” Ford said. “Have they found two or three, or ten people, or whatever the number is, that might have disliked the Fords?

“All I know is I’m comfortable in my own skin, what I’ve done for this community for thirty years. I don’t like drugs,” Coun. Ford said.

Roughly a week ago, allegations surfaced in the Toronto Star and gawker.com that a video was being shopped around showing Mayor Ford doing crack cocaine and making homophobic and racist remarks. He has since denied those allegations.

“There’s been a serious accusation from the Toronto Star that I use crack cocaine. I do not use crack cocaine nor am I an addict of crack cocaine,” Mayor Ford said during a news conference at city hall Friday.

“As for a video, I can’t comment on a video that I’ve not seen or does not exist.”

680News has not seen that video and cannot verify the drug-use allegations as being true.

The stabbing comes just days after a British soldier was hacked to death on a London street in broad daylight in a suspected terrorist attack that has raised fears of potential copycat strikes. However, there was no immediate confirmation of any link to the France attack on Saturday.

The France military spokesman, Col. Thierry Burkhard, said the French soldier was wounded but that his life was not in danger. He had no immediate further details on the stabbing.

Kesean Williams died after being struck by a bullet while he was watching TV in his living room.

The community came together for a memorial breakfast at the David Suzuki Secondary School to honour the Grade 4 student and to stand up against gun violence.

All of the money raised will go directly to Kesean’s mom, his brother, and a scholarship in his memory.

Police believe the home was targeted and are trying to determine if the gunfire was intended for the previous tenants. Kesean and his family only moved into the home the week before the shooting.

No arrests have been made.