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Toronto's homeless residents and frontline workers brace for bitter winter
December 16, 2023 - 1:00 AM

TORONTO - In warmer weather, Jamie Lee Pauk is usually on the move searching for food or a job. But as winter closes in, she's mostly staying close to a downtown Toronto encampment squeezed into a churchyard lot off the sidewalk of a busy downtown street.
Housing crisis: Feds stick by immigration plan, rethink international student flows
August 16, 2023 - 1:00 AM

OTTAWA - The alarm bells are becoming bull horns: Canada's housing supply isn't keeping up with the rapid rate of population growth.
Zelenskyy, atomic agency chief discuss nuclear plant fears
March 27, 2023 - 12:45 PM

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — The U.N.'s atomic energy chief warned during a meeting Monday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the perilous situation at Europe’s largest nuclear plant “isn’t getting any better” as relentless fighting in the area keeps the facility at risk of a disaster.
French officials say 1.27 million protested pension reforms
January 31, 2023 - 12:08 PM

PARIS (AP) — An estimated 1.27 million people took to the streets of French cities, towns and villages Tuesday, according to the Interior Ministry, in new massive protests against President Emmanuel Macron's plans to raise the retirement age by two years.
Moscow says Ukrainian rocket strike kills 63 Russian troops
January 02, 2023 - 9:07 AM

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces fired rockets at a facility in the eastern Donetsk region where Russian soldiers were stationed, killing 63 of them, Russia’s defense ministry said Monday, in one of the deadliest attacks on the Kremlin’s forces since the war began more than 10 months ago.
Most actively traded companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange
December 29, 2022 - 1:45 PM

TORONTO - Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:
Retreating Russians leave their comrades' bodies behind
October 04, 2022 - 2:02 PM

LYMAN, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops abandoned a key Ukrainian city so rapidly that they left the bodies of their comrades in the streets, offering more evidence Tuesday of Moscow's latest military defeat as it struggles to hang on to four regions of Ukraine that it illegally annexed last week.
Russia hits Kyiv with missiles; Putin warns West on arms
June 05, 2022 - 6:42 PM

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia took aim Sunday at Western military supplies for Ukraine, launching airstrikes on Kyiv that it claimed destroyed tanks donated from abroad, as Vladimir Putin warned that any Western deliveries of longer-range rocket systems would prompt Moscow to hit “objects that we haven't yet struck.”
Slithering 'snake burglar' steals thousands from CA salon
December 01, 2021 - 5:29 PM

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Police were looking for a man dubbed the “snake burglar" who wriggled his way through a Southern California business and fled with several thousands dollars.
Half of Ontario hospitals in poor state of repair; accountability office says
November 26, 2020 - 1:50 PM

TORONTO - Almost half of Ontario's hospitals are in poor repair, a situation far worse than for the provinces roads, bridges and other infrastructure, the Financial Accountability Office reported on Thursday.
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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

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

Manitoba government plans to lift ban on homegrown recreational cannabis
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is planning to end its ban on homegrown recreational cannabis — a move that would leave Quebec as the only province with such a restriction. "We're just allowing Manitobans to have the same

Kamloops council to expand tax exemptions for new rental builds
Developers have more land to choose from if they want to cut costs on new rental buildings in Kamloops. The City is looking to expand a tax exemption program to span massive swaths of Kamloops in order to encourage development. Previously r

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Toronto's homeless residents and frontline workers brace for bitter winter

Housing crisis: Feds stick by immigration plan, rethink international student flows

Zelenskyy, atomic agency chief discuss nuclear plant fears

French officials say 1.27 million protested pension reforms

Moscow says Ukrainian rocket strike kills 63 Russian troops

Most actively traded companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange

Retreating Russians leave their comrades' bodies behind

Russia hits Kyiv with missiles; Putin warns West on arms

Slithering 'snake burglar' steals thousands from CA salon

Half of Ontario hospitals in poor state of repair; accountability office says

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