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  • After 19 months, U.S. land border to reopen to vaccinated Canadians in November

    October 12, 2021 - 9:30 PM

    WASHINGTON - Fully vaccinated Canadian vacationers and day-trippers will be allowed to drive into the United States beginning in early November, the Biden administration said Tuesday, the first glimmer of hope in nearly 20 months for the families and businesses that depend on two-way traffic across the Canada-U.S. border.

  • Pet industry embraces opportunities as owners return to work

    April 17, 2022 - 7:00 AM

    TORONTO - After remortgaging her house and borrowing from friends and family to keep her business alive through the pandemic, Carolyn Hatfield is happily struggling to keep up with demand from pet owners seeking daycare for their COVID puppies.

  • Congress passes bill to fund Capitol security, Afghan visas

    July 29, 2021 - 3:07 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress overwhelmingly passed emergency legislation Thursday that would bolster security at the Capitol, repay outstanding debts from the violent Jan. 6 insurrection and increase the number of visas for allies who worked alongside Americans in the Afghanistan war.

  • 'It's unacceptable:' Drive-ins, movie theatres call for Ontario to ease restrictions

    May 21, 2021 - 11:43 PM

    TORONTO - The head of Ontario's largest drive-in theatre chain says the province's latest COVID-19 reopening plan threatens to send shockwaves through the Canadian film industry and put some exhibitors out of business.

  • Summer Cruisin': Car culture gets a new lease as cultural events turn to 'pod' life

    May 20, 2020 - 7:31 AM

    TORONTO - Hollywood flicks were always the main attraction at Bob Boyle's drive-in theatre on the outskirts of Brackley, P.E.I., but shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic shut everything down, a nearby high school made an unusual request.

  • Cinemas across U.S. close for pandemic

    March 16, 2020 - 3:47 PM

    NEW YORK - U.S. movie theatres nationwide are preparing to shut down after President Donald Trump announced new guidelines urging against gatherings of more than 10 people because of the coronavirus pandemic. With big screens across the country going dark, Hollywood moved to rush some new releases onto home entertainment platforms.

  • Feds restrict global flights to fewer airports following Trump Europe ban

    March 13, 2020 - 2:39 PM

    The federal Liberal government imposed its own limits on incoming flights from overseas Friday — nothing as severe as Donald Trump's ban on foreign nationals arriving from Europe, but enough to signal to the United States that it need not erect a viral firewall along the Canada-U.S. border.

  • Event organizers weigh 'difficult' decisions to continue amid COVID-19 fears

    March 11, 2020 - 1:12 PM

    TORONTO - The Metro Toronto Convention Centre should have been bustling Wednesday with guests at a two-day retail, marketing and technology conference, but the event's plans changed with news that a Sudbury man who visited the venue last week had contracted a novel form of coronavirus.

  • Independent theatres accuse Cineplex of anti-competitive behaviour

    February 20, 2020 - 1:14 PM

    TORONTO - Independent cinemas across Canada say they are being kept from screening top films like "Parasite" and "Hustlers" as they're released — and they claim theatre giant Cineplex Inc. is to blame.

  • Home items are getting smarter and creepier, like it or not

    January 07, 2019 - 12:30 PM

    NEW YORK - One day, finding an oven that just cooks food may be as tough as buying a TV that merely lets you change channels.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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