71 minutes ago Three blazes keep London firefighters busy on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day

Damage due to a blaze at an industrial building in the city’s northwest end is pegged at $250,000, London Fire Department officials say. Just before 10 p.m. on Tuesday, fire officials said in a statement on social media that crews were at the scene of a blaze at an industrial building at Blue Heron Drive […]

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77 minutes ago Video shows the moment Azerbaijan Airlines with 67 people onboard crashed near airport

Some of the videos posted on social media showed survivors dragging fellow passengers away from the wreckage of the plane

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99 minutes ago On Christmas, Pope urges nations to silence arms, ‘overcome divisions’

As Christmas coincided with the start of the 2025 Holy Year celebration that he dedicated to hope, Francis called for broad reconciliation, 'even (with) our enemies.'

Culture

2 hours ago 1 dead in Scarborough house fire, another critical after Toronto blaze

One male is dead following a house fire overnight in Scarborough while an elderly woman was critically hurt in a separate blaze in Toronto. Toronto Police said on social media site X that officers were called to Birchmount Rd. and Hwy. 401 at 2:39 a.m. for a “large house fire.” Police said a man was […]

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4 hours ago Pope urges ’all people of all nations’ to silence arms and overcome divisions in Christmas address

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on Wednesday urged “all people of all nations” to find courage during this Holy Year “to silence the sounds of arms and overcome divisions” plaguing the world, from the Middle East to Ukraine, Africa to Asia. The pontiff’s “Urbi et Orbi” — “To the […]

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5 hours ago Solar burgers: How agrivoltaics is marrying food production with green energy

CALGARY — Jason Bradley spent 20 years of his career as ranch manager at a 50,000-acre grazing operation in west-central Alberta, so he understands why people react with skepticism to the idea of raising a herd of cattle on a working solar farm. “The first thing people think is, ‘You can’t put cattle on (a […]

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5 hours ago The S&P 500’s performance in 2024 made investing look easy. Why bother with strategy?

A lot can get lost in long-term performance, cautions Bert Clark, CEO of Investment Management Corporation of Ontario

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7 hours ago Levac: My best photos of Ottawa in 2024 show the city's growth and grit

A strange bike lane post, graffiti at uOttawa, and a rare birth — Ottawa Citizen photographer Jean Levac reflects on the past year.

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11 hours ago Huge number of Ontario residents ditched the province to move to Alberta in 2024

Alberta has been calling, and folks across Canada seem to have been answering the phone, especially in B.C. and Ontario, where a huge exodus of residents was recorded in the latest quarter.According to Statistics Canada data, Alberta saw the largest net gain in interprovincial migration in the third quarter of this year, adding 10,810 people.Statistics Canada estimates that 7,719 Ontarians moved to Alberta in the last quarter, compared to 3,350 Albertans who moved to Ontario, for a net gain of 4,369 people.It was a similar story for our pals in the West. An estimated 7,693 British Columbians moved to Alberta, compared to 4,523 Albertans who moved to B.C., for a net gain of 3,170.B.C. and Ontario are the top provinces that are helping Alberta's population surge, and so far this year, 12,151 Albertans moved to Ontario compared to 26,381 Ontarians that moved to Alberta, for a net gain of 14,230 people.Statistics for B.C. are somewhat similar to those for Ontario. 18,459 Albertans moved...

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11 hours ago Cinq choses à savoir sur le seul espoir du Canadien au Championnat mondial de hockey junior

Il n’y aura qu’un seul espoir du Canadien au prochain Championnat mondial de hockey junior et ce n’est pas exactement le plus connu.

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