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Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:00:00 EDT
Doug Ford to give greater, U.S.-style powers to mayors of Toronto and Ottawa
The dramatic change would dilute the influence of municipal councillors in Ontario’s two largest cities.

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 15:43:00 EDT
Canada is banning dog imports from 100 countries
Dogs from 100 countries will not be allowed to come into the country after Sept. 28.

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 13:11:00 EDT
Toronto rents are rising at fastest pace in more than a decade, report says
The rental market is headed ‘in the wrong direction’ as vacancy tightens while rental construction stalls, says Urbanation’s president.

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 12:08:37 EDT
‘They treat us like a toilet bowl’: Cruise ships dump billions of litres of toxic waste in Canada, report finds
Alaska-bound cruises are taking advantage of Canada’s relatively lax regulations and dumping billions of litres of sewage and waste into its waters, says a recent report.

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:54:47 EDT
How extreme heat affects your body — and what are the warning signs
With the U.K. hit by a record heat wave, we spoke to environmental stress and climate change experts about the physiological impact of high temperatures.

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:35:50 EDT
How will Toronto hold up if — and, inevitably, when — a deadly heat wave like London’s happens here?
We have short-term measures, but face the urban heat island effect, and many buildings lack air conditioning and are not designed to keep cool.

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 18:02:50 EDT
‘I knew he was serious’: Inmate describes plot to kill murdered Toronto philanthropist Glen Davis’s widow, three others
Marshall Ross, who is serving a life sentence for arranging Glen Davis’s 2007 execution, has pleaded not guilty to the charge of allegedly plotting with another inmate to kill Davis’s widow and three others.

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 13:43:39 EDT
In public. With people around. Why Toronto’s weekend gun violence points to a worrying pattern
“This brazen violence needs to stop,” said Sureya Ibrahim, founder of Mothers for Peace.

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 18:22:48 EDT
Leslyn Lewis accuses media, rivals of ‘colonial thinking’ about the ‘ethnic vote’ in Conservative leadership race
The idea that the so-called “ethnic vote” in the Conservative leadership contest belonged to Patrick Brown is an example of colonial thinking that ethnic communities need rescuing at the hands of progressive-leaning white men, Leslyn Lewis says.

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:21:44 EDT
Pearson travellers report smooth arrival process during first day of random COVID testing
GTAA says the decision to move random COVID testing off-site, along with increased staffing, helped ease airport congestion.

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 15:57:00 EDT
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Alma Adams, Ilhan Omar among 16 members of Congress arrested at abortion rights protest
Videos surfacing online show an abortion rights demonstration taking place outside the Supreme Court, Tuesday afternoon.



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