4 d. ago DEAR ABBY: Memory of breakdown remains fuzzy, but fallout continues

DEAR ABBY: I live in a very small town. My husband died a year ago and, since then, I have felt like some of these people are angry with me. Six months after he died, I had what my therapist called a “nervous breakdown.” I know I wasn’t myself for some time, and I can’t […]

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5 d. ago GoFundMe Named to TIME’s List of 100 Most Influential Companies of 2025

Building on the Company’s 2021 TIME100 Recognition, GoFundMe Is Honored for Advancing Its Mission of Helping People Help Each Other SAN DIEGO — TIME has named GoFundMe to its prestigious list of the 100 Most Influential Companies of 2025 — an honor recognizing the company’s leadership in transforming how people and organizations give and receive […]

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6 d. ago Opioid deaths in Canada fell 17% but 20 people still died per day in 2024

The data for 2024 released Wednesday by the Public Health Agency of Canada showed 7,146 deaths were recorded last year, 80 per cent of which were in just three provinces.

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7 d. ago ‘He saved me’: Banff rockfall survivor pays tribute to friend who died on Bow Glacier Falls trail

'He was my friend but also like my big brother,' Khaled Elgamal says of Hamza Benhilal, one of two people who died after a slab of mountain gave way last week

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8 d. ago Kurl: 40 Years On, we owe it to the victims of the Air India bombing to remember

329 people died aboard Flight 182 on June 23, 2025. The vast majority were Canadians. Twenty-eight were from Ottawa. Yet far too many Canadians have little to no knowledge of the terrorist attack.

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1 week ago Canada Retail Sales Fell 1.1% in May, Largest Drop in a Year

The strain on Canadian consumers became more evident last month after a rush to buy cars ahead of price increases from tariffs appeared to come to an end.

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2 w. ago Jet Set owners charged with involuntary homicide after deadly roof collapse

Antonio Espaillat was arrested after evidence showed he ignored suggestions he cancel the concert — where 236 people died — because the roof was in danger of collapsing.

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2 w. ago 2 killed and 32 injured after bridge collapses at tourist destination in western India

NEW DELHI — At least two people died and 32 others were injured after an iron bridge over a river collapsed on Sunday at a popular tourist destination in India’s western Maharashtra state, the state’s top elected official said. At least six people were hospitalized in critical condition, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis wrote on the […]

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2 w. ago Passenger films TVs, A/C not working on doomed Air India flight

An Air India passenger shared stunning video of the doomed plane’s TV monitors and air conditioning not working one trip before it crashed on the next flight shortly after takeoff Thursday. There was one survivor of the Ahmedabad crash as at least 240 people died aboard the Boeing aircraft that departed for London Gatwick Airport […]

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3 w. ago More Canadians Are Ditching US Road Trips With 38% Annual Drop

Cross-border road trips to the US from Canada fell for a fifth straight month, a gloomy outlook for many American vacation spots once frequented by their northern neighbors during the peak summer travel season.

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3 w. ago Small plane carrying six people crashes off the San Diego coast

Authorities were investigating Monday after a small plane carrying six people crashed off the San Diego coast. The twin-engine Cessna 414 crashed at around 12:30 p.m. Sunday, not long after it took off, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The plane was returning to Phoenix one day after flying out from Arizona, according to the flight […]

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3 w. ago More than 2,200 died of opioids in Ontario last year, a drop from 2023

The mortality rate from opioid overdoses was 14.3 deaths per 100,000 people in 2024

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3 w. ago More than 2K died of opioids in Ontario last year as numbers trend downward: data

More than 2,200 Ontarians died from opioids last year, a 15 per cent decrease from 2023, newly released data from the Office of the Chief Coroner shows.

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last month A new natural gas project off Senegal makes fishing communities feel threatened

GUET NDAR, Senegal (AP) — It’s impossible to miss the gas platform off the coast of northern Senegal. Its flare stack burns day and night above the rolling breakers. The natural gas project, a joint venture between British energy giant BP and U.S.-based Kosmos Energy, started operations on the final day of 2024. It is […]

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