1 hour ago 'She didn't deserve this': Friends of Jelisa Maschki 'shocked,' 'devastated' after police rule death a homicide

'I'm just in disbelief that someone could ever hurt a person like her ... She's the last person I would think that this would ever happen to,' said one friend

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2 hours ago Mystery donor gives St. Joseph's hospital $2M: 'Unique and generous gift'

An anonymous local donor is writing a $2-million cheque to a London hospital, a no-strings-attached mega-donation arriving just days before Christmas. The mystery donor is leaving how the sum will be spent up to the St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation, the fundraising arm of St. Joseph’s Health Care London, stipulating only that it supports the […]

Economics

3 hours ago Suspected case of carbon monoxide poisoning in Ottawa leaves 10 people hospitalized

Ottawa police say 10 people are in hospital and one of them is suffering from life-threatening injuries after a suspected carbon monoxide poisoning case.

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4 hours ago More than 50 Liberal MPs leave call with ‘consensus’ Justin Trudeau should step down: CBC

That would represent about a third of the Liberal caucus, which has 153 seats in Canada’s House of Commons

Politics

6 hours ago A race is on to clean up shorelines off Crimea after tons of oil spills from damaged Russian ships

Cleanup continued in the Kerch Strait near Russian-occupied Crimea on Sunday, a week after at least 3,700 tons of low-grade fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken Russian tankers. More than 7,500 people, many of them volunteers, raced to rescue wildlife and clean up shorelines blighted by mazut, a heavy, low-quality oil product, according to […]

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11 hours ago HILL: Canada’s chief actuary fails to estimate Alberta’s share of CPP assets — but one point is clear

Despite a new report from Canada’s chief actuary about Alberta’s potential plan to leave the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and start its own separate provincial pension plan, Albertans still don’t have an official estimate from Ottawa about Alberta’s share of CPP assets. The actuary analyzed how the division of assets might be calculated, but did […]

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23 hours ago New rules 'strike a better balance' for residential RV parking in Calgary

Calgary’s recreational vehicle owners will be able to park their RV on the street for twice as long next camping season. City council on Tuesday supported a suite of amendments to the city’s community standards and traffic bylaws that Chief of Community Standards Ryan Pleckaitis argued will “strike a better balance” between accommodating RV owners […]

Economics

25 hours ago Drug site worker an accessory to innocent woman’s murder in Leslieville

Karolina Huebner-Makurat, a 44-year-old mother of two, was hit by a stray bullet from a shootout involving drug dealers

Society

28 hours ago Feds tighten rules on how air travellers are compensated for flight disruptions

Airlines would also have to provide refunds within 15 days, down from the current deadline of 30 days, if a passenger prefers to be reimbursed rather than rebooked

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