A forest fire has forced the evacuation of residents in a community north of Sudbury, Ont. Conservation officers and Ontario Provincial Police assisted with the precautionary evacuation of Shining Tree, Ont., residents Saturday afternoon after a forest fire broke out in the area on May 10. The fire is still […]
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Ontario party leaders faced off in a televised debate Monday night ahead of the June 2 election. Here are some key quotes: “Under yourself and the former premier Kathleen Wynne, you destroyed this province. The economy was going downhill quicker than the Canadian bobsled team.” – Progressive Conservative Leader Doug […]
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Ontario is reporting 11 new deaths linked to COVID-19 today. The province says that figure includes deaths from previous days recorded during a data clean-up. There are 1,345 people hospitalized with the virus today, up from 1,122 the previous day. The number of people in intensive care because of a […]
By Erika Ibrahim
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OTTAWA – Over half of Canadians under age 35 come across racist or prejudiced remarks about immigrants on the internet, a new survey suggests. Forty-two per cent of all respondents to the online survey by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies said they saw or heard racist content about […]
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Police say a 44-year-old has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 41-year-old man in Thunder Bay, Ont. They say officers were called on Sunday evening for a shooting. Police say a 41-year-old Thunder Bay man was located with serious injuries. He was sent […]
By Nicole Thompson and Jessica Smith
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Ontario’s Liberals and New Democrats are promising to bulk up spending on the arts sector, whose funding they say was already being whittled away before the COVID-19 pandemic closed galleries and cancelled concerts. The NDP platform pledges to “stabilize annual funding for the Ontario Arts Council and the Ontario Media […]
By Christopher Reynolds
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MONTREAL – Demonstrators streamed through downtown Montreal to protest Quebec’s contentious language bill on Saturday, demanding it be scrapped to preserve the rights of anglophones, allophones and Indigenous communities. The protesters, who rallied at Dawson College before marching more than two kilometres to Premier Francois Legault’s office, made an 11th-hour […]
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BRAMPTON, Ont. – A driver who struck and killed a woman and her three young daughters in Brampton, Ont., nearly two years ago is being sentenced to 17 years behind bars. Brady Robertson will receive nearly three years in credit for time already served awaiting trial, bringing the total down […]
By Virginie Ann
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MONTREAL – When Thomas Hartle indulges in a session of psilocybin treatment, the end-of-life anxiety, distractions and noises associated with his terminal colon cancer go away. “Before the treatment, it’s like you’re sitting in your car. It’s summer. You have your windows down; you’re stuck in rush-hour traffic; it’s noisy. […]
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HAY RIVER, N.W.T. – A town in the Northwest Territories says people were being allowed to return to their homes Sunday evening, four days after about 3,500 were ordered to evacuate as flood waters rose. A reopening plan posted by the Town of Hay River, on the south shore of […]
By Bill Graveland
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MAGRATH, ALBERTA – A fossil of a prehistoric lizard “on steroids” has been found at a mining site in southern Alberta. The partial fossil of a recently discovered mosasaurus was recently discovered at an ammolite mine south of Lethbridge. It lived in the inland sea that covered Alberta during the […]
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LAKE LOUISE, ALBERTA – A Quebec resident has been fined $20,000 for taking 45 fossils from three national parks in the Rocky Mountains, including an internationally known fossil site. Parks Canada says in a news release that park wardens in Lake Louise, Alta., received a tip in 2020 from a […]
