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Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:08:29 EDT
Canada is holding Vladimir Putin to account with a controversial sanctions exemption, Justin Trudeau says
Trudeau seemed to leave the door open Monday to exporting more turbines for the Russian-owned Nord Stream pipeline, as Germany and other European countries grapple with an energy crisis after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:34:00 EDT
‘Reprehensible and vile’: Anti-racism group loses federal funding over antisemitic tweets
The community Media Advocacy Centre received a $133,000 grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage last year.

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:00:25 EDT
Ontario school workers to hold strike vote starting Sept. 23
While no job action is planned, the move could put the 55,000 custodians, office staff, and early childhood educators in a strike position in October.

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 17:42:28 EDT
‘Status quo is just not working’: Doug Ford rallies Maritime premiers in push to change how health care is delivered
Warning “the status quo is just not working” in health care, Premier Doug Ford is rallying his counterparts in Atlantic Canada to change the way medical services are delivered.

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 22:32:37 EDT
One dead, another seriously injured after a 2-car collision in North York
Police said paramedics performed CPR on one person but they succumbed to their injuries.

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 21:08:35 EDT
Another Toronto-area festival faces online backlash after event abruptly cancelled
Organizers of The Lights Fest say police “demanded” the event be cancelled minutes before it was time for participants to light their lanterns.

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 19:19:00 EDT
Calling Pierre Poilievre ‘too polarizing,’ reality TV star Kevin O’Leary makes pitch for Jean Charest as Conservative leader
The reality television star’s nod comes as the race enters its final weeks and all five campaigns are trying to motivate supporters to cast a ballot.

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:03:00 EDT
‘I’ve been in car crashes, but it was worse than that’: Toronto Island ferry crash rattles injured passengers
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is sending a team of investigators to probe the weekend crash that injured more than a dozen.

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 17:28:28 EDT
No Ontario hospital patients will be moved to nursing homes without consent, minister says
Moving to allay fears that transfers could be made to nursing homes not on a patient’s preferred list of choices — and possibly away from their loved ones — Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra said no one will be forced to relocate.

Sun, 21 Aug 2022 19:33:00 EDT
The hug, the humanity, and Omar Sachedina: Who is CTV’s new chief news anchor?
Colleagues past and present say Sachedina’s promotion has been clouded by the company’s handling of LaFlamme’s termination

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 20:13:35 EDT
Police link pair of carjackings a day apart to same four suspects
Police also renewed calls for information or witnesses to the Aug. 18 kidnapping of a woman in the Guildwood Parkway area.

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:36:20 EDT
Mississauga man guilty of stabbing female housemate to death and hiding her body, jury finds
The Brampton jury deliberated for a little more than one day before finding Shaofeng Han, 55, guilty of second-degree murder for the December 2017 stabbing death of Yunying Pan, 40.

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:56:31 EDT
Ukrainian spies, Russian dissidents or an inside job: Who killed Daria Dugina, daughter of Putin’s ally?
The car bombing near Moscow and the competing claims of responsibility have brought the war in Ukraine into disturbingly close range of the Kremlin.

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 07:00:00 EDT
No, hundreds of Canadians have not died from COVID-19 vaccines. Where does this myth come from?
An Alberta politician was the latest to cite figures that experts say are widely misused to cast doubt on the safety of vaccines.



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