7 hours ago Toronto bars and restaurants with extended last call for New Year's Eve 2025

Bars and restaurants in Toronto with extended last call on New Year's Eve 2025 will be keeping the party going well into the wee hours, long after the rest of the city has closed up shop for the night.While I, as a perpetually sleepy person, tend to cap off my own New Year's celebrations no more than thirty minutes past midnight (a girl's got to get her beauty sleep!), I can also recognize the allure of staying out on the town until the sun rises, really soaking up the first moments of a new year, and I'm not alone.Each year, the holiday sees scores of celebrants flocking to parties at bars, restaurants and nightclubs across the city, bidding farewell to another year gone by and welcoming the promise of the incumbent one.For this exact reason, plenty of those establishments will opt to extend their hours for maximum party potential — so if you're not like me, you can keep the good times rolling as long as you want.Per the Liquor Licence and Control Act, all licensed ...

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12 hours ago Scottie Scheffler injures hand on broken glass, withdraws from PGA Tour opener in Hawaii

Scottie Scheffler injured his right hand on a broken glass preparing Christmas dinner, forcing the top-ranked player to withdraw from the PGA Tour’s season-opening event in Hawaii. “Scottie sustained a puncture wound to the palm of his right hand from a broken glass,” Scheffler’s manager, Blake Smith, said Friday in a statement. “Small glass fragments […]

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6 hours ago Underproducing Edmonton Oilers winger gets a fresh start in a familiar setting

Game Day 35: Edmonton at Los Angeles Edmonton Oilers return to action after a five day holiday break on Saturday afternoon (2 p.m. MDT) against an old and bitter rival, the Los Angeles Kings. For one Oiler, the return to his former home may represent a fresh start to a season that hasn’t gone well. […]

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20 hours ago Refloating effort planned for ship carrying corn still stuck in St. Lawrence River

A refloating attempt will take place Friday morning after a ship carrying corn had a power failure and has been stuck in the St. Lawrence River since Christmas Eve.

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13 hours ago LEAFS NOTES: Auston Matthews unlikely to play until New Year’s Eve at earliest

The Auston Matthews watch continues as the calendar year 2024 runs out on the Maple Leafs’ injured captain. There was hope that Matthews’, and the team’s, three days off during the NHL’s Christmas break would see him recover to be in the lineup Friday at Detroit, but coach Craig Berube ruled him out and added […]

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31 hours ago ‘Fight for better:’ Survivor speaks out amid holiday spike in intimate

Hoping to be a 'voice for the voiceless,' Andrine Johnson recounts her story of intimate-partner violence, after she managed to turn years of abuse into a source of resilience.

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8 hours ago Vancouver artist, humanitarian Joe Average dies on Christmas Eve: 'He was anything but average'

Tributes have poured in for the well-known artist, who was honoured earlier this month with an Order of Canada for his work as an artist, activist and philanthropist

Culture

18 hours ago Tugboats, crews try to refloat ship stuck in St. Lawrence River near Montreal

MONTREAL — A team of tugboats is being deployed to refloat a ship that has been stuck in the St. Lawrence River northeast of Montreal since Christmas Eve. The Canadian Coast Guard says the attempt to free the MV Maccoa was scheduled to begin around 11 a.m. The Cyprus-flagged 185-metre bulk carrier ran aground near […]

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16 hours ago After cold, snowy Christmas, temperatures to rise across southern Quebec for new year

After a cold, snowy Christmas, temperatures are set to rise across southern Quebec to bring in the new year with a high of 8 degrees Celsius on Monday and 4 degrees on Tuesday.

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19 hours ago 2nd stowaway in a month caught on Delta Air Lines flight without a ticket

This time, the unticketed passenger was attempting to fly from Seattle to Hawaii on Christmas Eve.

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