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Sat, 4 Dec 2021 07:00:00 ESTGO’s new London-Toronto train is moving fewer passengers than a half-full TTC bus
Just over 30 passengers a day are taking the daily service, which has a capacity of more than 900.
Sat, 4 Dec 2021 07:00:00 ESTStolen trust. Lost cases: How a Toronto cop stole from his force, fed an addiction and wasn’t charged
A veteran homicide detective was stealing drugs from the force’s evidence lockers. Why his thefts are bigger than one cop’s story.
Sat, 4 Dec 2021 07:00:00 EST‘No parents should have to bury their child’: How a Canadian funeral home owner is trying to stop suicides among international students
Toronto funeral home owner Kamal Bhardwaj hopes to spur a conversation about these young people’s mental health through the founding of a new group.
Sat, 4 Dec 2021 07:00:00 ESTJoe Biden insists he’s a friend to Canada. The evidence suggests otherwise
The U.S. under President Joe Biden plans to build back better. It just plans to do it without any help from or favours to Canada, thanks.
Sat, 4 Dec 2021 15:57:59 ESTDrug overdose deaths, non-fatal OD calls to paramedics spike across Toronto in recent weeks
Several batches of highly potent unregulated substances circulating throughout the city
Sat, 4 Dec 2021 05:00:00 ESTJudge tosses Peel cop’s gun case over racial profiling. It’s the fourth time a judge has rejected the officer’s evidence
“The evidence demonstrates that racial profiling played a substantial role in the conduct of the police leading to the discovery of the firearm.”
Sat, 4 Dec 2021 06:00:00 ESTFor 115 years, a Santa Claus Fund gift has brightened Christmas morning for countless children
The need is as great as in 1906 when The Star’s fabled spiritual founder Joseph Atkinson started the fund.
Sat, 4 Dec 2021 08:00:00 ESTNo Christmas concerts, holiday door decorating or gingerbread houses, union tells Toronto’s Catholic elementary teachers
The union representing Toronto’s Catholic elementary teachers sent a grinch-like memo to members this week including what they can and can’t do.
Sat, 4 Dec 2021 10:00:00 ESTHeather Mallick: How deep does misogyny run in America’s bloodstream? The U.S. Supreme Court is about to show us
As the U.S. Supreme Court considers reversing Roe v. Wade after 50 years, the decline of a nation becomes easier to map, Heather Mallick writes
Sat, 4 Dec 2021 19:00:00 ESTGot an Apple watch? Get ready to hear Prince William at his most intimate
Apple is hoping that listening to the Duke of Cambridge spill his guts will inspire you to put one foot in front of other, Shinan Govani writes.
Sat, 4 Dec 2021 08:17:00 ESTToday’s coronavirus news: Ontario reports another 1,053 cases, eight deaths for Saturday; Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel makes final appeal for Germans to get vaccinated
Meanwhile, Public Health Sudbury and Districts says it is pulling out all the stops to help curb the rapid spread of COVID-19 cases in local schools.