37 m. ago Neighbour details concerns over property at centre of shooting probe

A London home at the centre of a shooting investigation has been targeted by bylaw enforcement in the past, city hall officials say. A heavy police presence descended on a house on Adelaide Street, south of Oxford Street, last Monday around 7:30 a.m. after a shooting victim showed up in hospital two hours earlier. Investigator […]

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12 h. ago Forgotten and abandoned Ontario ghost town was once a bustling port

Ontario is a province rife with ghost towns — once-thriving communities that met untimely ends.One such town is Depot Harbour near Parry Sound, which was once a thriving trade port in Georgian Bay that was left abandoned after a devastating fire. Despite its location near a still-thriving community, the ghost town remains one of the most inaccessible in the province.There are many mysteries to this now desolate town, its history deeply rooted in and ultimately scarred by colonialism.Here's a closer look inside this forgotten trade port town and what's going on with it today.The town's foundationIn the late 1890s, one of the largest lumber exporters in North America, John Rudolphus Booth, acquired railways in the area to eventually form the Canadian Atlantic Railway (CAR).At first, the people of Parry Sound were thrilled to finally be getting a railway that connected them with Ottawa. But the price tag on the dock fees was too high, so Booth...

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12 h. ago Toronto woman building a beauty empire that's unlike anything else in the city

Upon moving to Toronto from Russia, Valeria Mozheyko was struck by the lack of beauty bars in the city that offered the same high-quality care she was accustomed to back home.Rather than settle for what she could find, she took matters into her own impeccably manicured hands, and, in 2023, Project Essence was born.Valeria herself admits that she never dreamed of becoming a business owner, nor did she have any work experience in the realm of beauty prior to opening her own business, but where there's a will, there's a way, and her experience as a customer at such establishments primed her to know exactly what she wanted out of her own business."As a customer, I wanted high-quality services, but I also wanted good customer service. I wanted to be taken care of," she tells me, "and I just couldn't find a place in Toronto that had both."Valeria founded Project Essence in the absence of the beauty bars she was accustomed to in Russia.In her own experi...

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12 h. ago Toronto is getting a waterfront park with breathtaking views this summer

The epic undertaking to renaturalize Toronto's Port Lands has already created a new serpentine mouth for the Don River, soon to be joined by stunning public spaces — including one standout park scheduled to welcome the public this summer.Waterfront Toronto has released new aerial footage of the renaturalized Don River captured in March, showing off the new human-made waterway that officially started flowing last year.The latest video update on construction in the Port Lands offers a hint at what is in store for the coming months, most notably the gradual opening of new parks and public spaces in the formerly industrial district.One standout of the reimagined Port Lands will be a large public space hugging the Keating Channel and Toronto Harbour on the north side of the river.The space known as Biidaasige Park, (pronounced Bee-daw-sih-geh) is comprised of a future northern section and an upcoming southern section, the latter of which is scheduled to partially open this summ...

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17 h. ago Man who fell 21 feet onto warning track at Pirates game is awake

PITTSBURGH — The man who fell from the top of a 21-foot-high wall onto the warning track at PNC Park during a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night is awake and alert. The organizer of a GoFundMe page for Kavan Markwood, the 20-year-old who slipped off a railing and […]

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18 h. ago RCMP called in after derelict ferry burns in ‘suspicious’ blaze overnight

The city said the cause of the fire has not yet been determined but is considered suspicious. An investigation, led by the RCMP working with other responding agencies, is underway.

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18 h. ago After sudden departure, Mark Neufeld lauded, roasted for his time as Calgary's police chief

Mark Neufeld’s tenure as Calgary police chief was both praised and slammed by those who’ve closely watched his performance as the city’s top cop. Neufeld abruptly resigned Friday after serving as chief since 2019 despite having two years remaining on his contract, and gave no reason for his departure. Members of the Calgary Police Commission […]

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19 h. ago Eleven candidates running to replace George Darouze in Osgoode ward

This comes after George Darouze resigned from his city council position after he was elected as MPP for Carleton in the Ontario provincial election.

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23 h. ago United Airlines cuts 35 daily flights at Newark airport, citing shortage of air traffic controllers

NEW YORK (AP) — Passengers with flights to or from Newark Liberty International Airport encountered long delays and cancellations Saturday due to an air traffic controller shortage, a nationwide problem the Trump administration has pledged to fix. The busy airport outside New York City experienced disruptions all week. Faulting the Federal Aviation Administration’s alleged failure […]

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25 h. ago Russian drone attack wounds 47 in Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv

KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, wounded 47 people, officials said, and prompted another appeal from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for more decisive support from the country’s allies. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said drones hit 12 locations across the city late Friday. Residential buildings, civilian infrastructure and vehicles were […]

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28 h. ago Opinion: City engagement with citizens needs complete overhaul

This time last year, the city was gripped by the longest-ever public hearing in city council’s history. More than 700 Calgarians spoke on the blanket rezoning policy proposal. Following its approval by council, city administration is implementing it by preparing amendments to the existing land-use bylaw. Proposed changes include consolidating dwelling type categories and enabling more […]

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35 h. ago Harassed by Assassin’s Creed gamers, a professor fought back with kindness

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Sachi Schmidt-Hori has never played Assassin’s Creed Shadows, but facing an onslaught of online harassment from its fans, she quickly developed her own gameplay style: confronting hate with kindness. Schmidt-Hori, an associate professor of Japanese literature and culture at Dartmouth College, worked as a narrative consultant on the latest installment in […]

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36 h. ago Toronto's artificial peninsula set to keep growing for decades

Toronto's man-made peninsula, the Leslie Street Spit, is still growing, and will be for the next few decades to come as dredged material from the city's harbour continues to be deposited along its shoreline.Created in 1959 by the Toronto Harbour Commissioners (THC), now PortsToronto, for "port-related facilities," the Leslie Street Spit's expected use as an outer harbour port never panned out, yet the landform has expanded significantly through millions of cubic metres of concrete, earth fill, and dredged sand, and today supports Tommy Thompson Park.The artificial peninsula extends five kilometres into Lake Ontario and is over 500 hectares in size. The park is home to some of the largest existing natural habitats on the Toronto waterfront, and includes wildflower meadows, cottonwood forests, cobble beaches, and coastal marshes.Aerial view of the Leslie Street Spit in 1975. Photo: Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA).It's also become on...

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36 h. ago Restaurant known for Toronto's best jerk chicken opens second location

A hidden gem Toronto Caribbean restaurant that's gained a reputation for serving the best jerk chicken in the city has finally expanded with a new location.Leslieville's Gerrard Square Shopping Centre is one of those if-you-know-you-know places in Toronto that make the city so unique.For my part, the mall always carried a sort of looming, ominous air. Probably because my parents used to joke that they'd leave me there whenever I behaved badly growing up, but I digress. The mall's inescapable 'Gerrard Scare' and 'Scary Square' nicknames just go to show that I'm not the only one.More recently, though, the mall's been getting a renewed wave of respect — even popularity — as more and more people in the city flock to it for, more or less, one reason: the food.The mall food court has seen several buzzworthy tenants come and go over the past few years, but its main claim to fame, in my opinion at least, has a...

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36 h. ago See how Toronto demolished and rebuilt a huge stretch of the Gardiner Expressway

The long-term rebuild of Toronto's Gardiner Expressway has faced its fair share of criticism for contributing to the city's traffic woes, but it's actually a heck of an impressive undertaking if you're able to look past the frustrating lane closures and incessant gridlock.A new time-lapse video has condensed the frenzied construction for the first two sections of the Gardiner Expressway Strategic Rehabilitation Plan's latest phase, covering a stretch extending from Dufferin Street — a project the City recently announced would be completed far ahead of schedule.The video from local photographer Kotsy covers construction on the stretch of highway just north of Exhibition Place from 2024 to 2025, shortened into a digestible 3.5-minute watch time.Kotsy tells blogTO that the drone-captured views of the project were aligned using a couple of different methods. "The first captures (in the second half of the video) were done using save points, but I reali...

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39 h. ago City of Calgary to charge for parking at Edworthy Park, paving plans concern residents

According to the City of Calgary, designs are currently being developed and construction is scheduled to begin 'the earliest' in spring 2026. 

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39 h. ago Mustang Energy Corp. Provides Update on Geophysical Reinterpretation and Targeting

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mustang Energy Corp. (CSE: MEC, OTC:MECPF, FRA:92T) (the “Company” or “Mustang”) is pleased to provide an update on its ongoing geophysical reprocessing, reinterpretation and targeting work in collaboration with leading geophysical consultants Resource Potentials Ltd. (“ResPot”) of Perth, Australia. This initiative reflects Mustang’s commitment to advancing exploration […]

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40 h. ago Cuomo Holds $3 Million of Undisclosed Options in Nuclear Startup

Former New York Governor  Andrew Cuomo has $3 million in options to a shoestring nuclear startup that he failed to disclose to an ethics board as he mounts a comeback bid to be the mayor of New York City.

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41 h. ago A tent is not an accommodation under N.S. regulations, judge rules

Bradley Lowe 'died destitute' in a tent pitched in front of Halifax's City Hall

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41 h. ago Jurors begin to consider case of suspect in fatal stabbing of Calgary fitness instructor on city street

Jury could find Michael Adenyi not criminally responsible by reason of a mental disorder or guilty of first-, or second-degree murder or manslaughter

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