Leaders from five of Ontario’s largest health care unions are issuing an urgent appeal to the Doug Ford government, citing years of inaction and a lack of investment as factors in the province’s current hospital crisis. Speaking at Queen’s Park on Thursday, the unions said the current government’s plan is “failing miserably.” They also said …
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Toronto police are searching for a man wanted in an armed robbery on a GO train. Investigators say a male suspect boarded a GO train, cart 2705, at Eglinton Station bound for Union Station on Nov. 18, shortly after 11:15 p.m The suspect allegedly sat beside a male passenger and demanded his cell phone. He …
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(CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed molecular and chemical portrait of a faraway planet’s skies, scoring another first for the exoplanet science community. WASP-39b, otherwise known as Bocaprins, can be found orbiting a star some 700 light-years away. It is an exoplanet — a planet outside our solar system — …
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Hyung-Jin Kim, The Associated Press Published Wednesday, November 23, 2022 7:58PM EST Last Updated Wednesday, November 23, 2022 10:29PM EST SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made insult-laden threats against South Korea on Thursday for considering unilateral sanctions on the North, calling the South’s new president …
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A mother, father and son are dead and their teenage daughter is in the hospital after a head-on crash that kills four people east of Peterborough, Ont. According to Ontario Provincial Police, the crash occurred on Highway 7 near Drummond Line around 5:15 pm on Tuesday when an SUV and pick-up truck collided. Family told …
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A complaint was filed with Toronto’s Office of the Integrity Commissioner Monday regarding John Tory’s use of robocalls during the October municipal election. The complaint, filed by Parthi Kandavel, an 8-year Toronto School Board Trustee who ran for council in Ward 20 – Scarborough Southwest, alleges Tory used his power as mayor to influence the …
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Heather Hollingsworth, The Associated Press Published Tuesday, November 22, 2022 5:26PM EST Last Updated Tuesday, November 22, 2022 9:38PM EST LACEY, Okla. – The suspect in the weekend killings of four people at a marijuana farm in Oklahoma was arrested in the afternoon by officers in South Florida, police announced late Tuesday. Wu Chen was …
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A woman was fatally stabbed in Milton on Tuesday afternoon and Halton Regional Police say a suspect has been arrested. Officers responded to a residence on Gosford Crescent at around 5:45 pm after someone reported a stabbing, said police spokesperson Const. Ryan Anderson. Speaking to reporters at the scene, Anderson said officers arrived at the …
A four-year-old child with Down syndrome spent about 40 hours in an Ontario emergency room after coming down with a serious respiratory illness, something her mother calls “completely ridiculous” and “unacceptable.” It was around 2:30 am on Nov. 9 when Jasmine, a resident in the Woodbridge, Ont., area, said she called 911. Her young daughter’s …
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Residents in Niagara Region are being asked to keep an eye out for a rare meteorite that was tracked falling from space and crashed in the region over the weekend. The object lit up the night sky around 3:30 am on Nov. 19, prompting a flood of social media comments. Many people also described hearing …
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