6 h. ago Rumsey: Teens suffer when school starts too early in the day

Later class-start times improve students’ academic performance, help our mental and physical health, and allow teens to have better sleep schedules.

Society

43 h. ago DHL Express to suspend Canadian operations amid strike, lockout

DHL Express Canada plans to shut down operations across the country this week amid a strike and lockout involving 2,100 truck drivers and other workers, adding to turmoil in the parcel market. With the two sides at an impasse, the company said it will halt thousands of daily deliveries starting Friday — the same day […]

Other

57 h. ago India’s Energy Index Struggles at Key Level With Rising Oil Prices

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Economics

3 d. ago Low Inflation Seen Helping Indian Rupee Weather Middle East Storm

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Economics

3 d. ago Is Father’s Day getting more respect? Depends on who you ask

Is Father’s Day starting to get a little more attention as a holiday? Not if you check some social media. In an expletive-filled post on TikTok and X, rapper Plies, best known for his collaborations with T-Pain and DJ Khaled on hits “Shawty” and “I’m So Hood,” complains about how Father’s Day on Sunday carries […]

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9 d. ago Montreal bus, subway services disrupted as transit maintenance workers strike

MONTREAL — Montreal’s transit maintenance workers have started a nine-day strike that is causing widespread disruption in the network. The 2,400 workers began striking today after more than a year of negotiations. For the first three days of the strike bus and subway service will be limited to morning and afternoon rush hours and late […]

Society

1 week ago Indian Central Bank’s Jumbo Rate Cut Could Supercharge IPO Pipeline

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Other

1 week ago This conservation area just outside Toronto is a hiker's dream

As someone always on the lookout for new hiking spots around Toronto, I recently stumbled upon a lesser-known gem: Coldstream Conservation Area in Middlesex Centre.A couple of hours west of the city, this conservation area proved to be the perfect day trip destination, close enough to make it back in time for dinner, but far enough to feel like a proper escape into nature.I arrived in the morning, coffee in hand, and was immediately struck by the quiet beauty of the place. The air felt fresher somehow, and the gentle hum of birdsong set the tone for the day. There are two main trails here, so I decided to start with the Cedar Park Trail—a short, 0.9 km loop through a rare cedar swamp.    View this post on Instagram           A post shared by Outdoors Canada (@outdoors.canada)It's an easy walk, but what it lacks in distance it more than makes up for in atmosphere. The boardwalk winds through thick, a...

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2 w. ago Bargain Hunters Scouring For Distressed Sectors May Eye India’s Road Developers

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Sport

2 w. ago GOLDSTEIN: Tax Freedom Day is Sunday, June 8, when Canadians finally start working for themselves: report

Tax Freedom Day — when Canadians stop working for the government in order to pay their taxes and start working for themselves — will arrive on Sunday, June 8 this year, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.  “If Canadians paid all their taxes up front, they would work the first 158 days of this […]

Economics

2 w. ago 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 […]

Other

2 w. ago Vancouver's park board eyes free access to city's most popular gardens for Indigenous visitors

If approved, daytime admission to VanDusen Botanical Garden and the Bloedel Conservatory would be free for all First Nations, Métis and Inuit people starting June 21 — National Indigenous Peoples Day.

Other

3 w. ago This Day in History, 1890: A Ponderous Moving Mountain startles the sluggish blood of Vancouverites

Circuses were so popular in the Pacific Northwest in the 1890s, some impecunious tin-horn hobos were selling fake tickets

Culture

3 w. ago ‘Meat all over the ground’: B.C. man left on trail after random vicious dog attack

On Mother's Day, David Peter started on his usual route up Hemlock Valley Road on Sasquatch Mountain Resort in Agassiz but came across a grey truck parked on the route.

Events

4 w. ago Massive Bell internet outage hits tens of thousands across Ontario and Quebec

Tens of thousands of customers across the GTA and beyond struggled to start their work day on Wednesday morning thanks to a massive internet outage that seems to have extended across Southern Ontario and as far as at least Montreal and Quebec City.Starting shortly after 9 a.m., reports of home internet issues started pouring onto social media, with people across all corners of Toronto proper — and in neighbouring locales like Richmond Hill, London, Markham, and Mississauga — jumping onto X to share their frustrations and check the status of the situation.In Quebec too— Patrick Gélinas 🏴‍☠️ (@PatrickGlinas2) May 21, 2025Downdetector, a platform known for its timely and crowd-sourced information on such outages, showed a spike of more than 100,000 users potentially affected as of shortly before 10 a.m.Those who use providers that rely on Bell's fibre optic lines, like Virgin, are experiencing the same problems. And, it appears...

Technology

4 w. ago Massive Bell internet outage hits over 100k customers across Ontario and Quebec

Tens of thousands of customers across the GTA and beyond struggled to start their work day on Wednesday morning thanks to a massive internet outage that seems to have extended across Southern Ontario and as far as at least Montreal and Quebec City.Starting shortly after 9 a.m., reports of home internet issues started pouring onto social media, with people across all corners of Toronto proper — and in neighbouring locales like Richmond Hill, London, Markham, and Mississauga — jumping onto X to share their frustrations and check the status of the situation.In Quebec too— Patrick Gélinas 🏴‍☠️ (@PatrickGlinas2) May 21, 2025Downdetector, a platform known for its timely and crowd-sourced information on such outages, showed a spike of more than 100,000 users potentially affected as of shortly before 10 a.m.Those who use providers that rely on Bell's fibre optic lines, like Virgin, are experiencing the same problems. And, it appears...

Economics