Maybe a Coyote but I think it was a Wolf

by CB
(Barrie, Ontario, Canada)

Yesterday evening (1/10/1) at 10:45pm, I was driving east on Essa Rd in Barrie, between Bryne Drive and the Highway 400 interchange, when an animal ran across the road in front of my car.

It was light gray in colour and had a Wolf-like head, but the legs looked quite short. Its tail was long and bushy and it ran from bushes at the construction site of the soon to open Barrie BMW, into bushes opposite.

Could a Wolf be living in this area?