32 h. ago Lung cancer survival rate doubles, but still causes most cancer deaths: Feds

Five-year survival rates for people with lung cancer have doubled since the 1990s, but the disease still kills more patients than any other type of cancer, a Statistics Canada report said on Wednesday. The report said the number of people living five years after they were diagnosed jumped from 13% to 27% between 1992 and […]

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34 h. ago Ontario stargazers stunned by mysterious apparition during Perseid meteor shower

Did aliens visit Ontario last night? If you were a stargazer on Tuesday, August 12, you and many other residents may have been wondering as you caught a galactic treat.With the date serving as the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, people across the province and beyond had their eyes on the sky last night. But as Tuesday evening carried on into Wednesday morning, authorities like Ontario Storm Watch were  flooded with reports of a glowing "bowtie" shape in the skies, many of them from the south of the province.And though it wasn't an alien attack, it was something equally as cool.#ONStorm #ONwx 🚨 Alien invasion? 👽 Not quite… but it sure had people wondering tonight!We’ve been getting a ton of reports from across Southern Ontario about a strange glowing “bowtie” shape in the night sky. No, it’s not UFOs, but it is something pretty cool.Initial… pic.twitter.com/1KVRoaRJfG— Instant Weather On...

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3 d. ago Opinion: Latest homeless count highlights urgency to support young people

Opinion: By not adequately supporting young people during their time of greatest need, they are set on a path to ongoing isolation and social marginalization

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3 d. ago The Jonas Brothers know what their audience wants — to be kids again

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Near the end of the Jonas Brothers concert on Sunday at MetLife Stadium, Nick Jonas started ruminating about how grateful he was for everyone who helped him and his brothers, Joe and Kevin, succeed in the music industry. Their parents. Many people in attendance that night, which was the kickoff show […]

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3 d. ago Canada, U.S. Coast Guards warn people to avoid annual Port Huron Float Down

Every year on the third Sunday of August, thousands of people from both sides of the border float down the St. Clair River

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3 d. ago One of Toronto's biggest street festivals was just cancelled for the second straight year

There are two main events that residents of Toronto would say traditionally herald the end of summertime each year: The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), which runs 18 days until Labour Day to close out the season, and Taste of the Danforth, once the city's largest street and food festival, taking place each August.While we are all eagerly awaiting the opening of the former this Friday, unfortunately, the latter has just been called off — and, it's now the second year in a row that this has happened, indicating a very precarious future for what has for so long been a key staple of the region's annual calendar.Since its advent in 1993, Taste of the Danforth has grown to welcome more than a million people across three days each summer, taking over a 1.6-km-long stretch of the main street.The last iteration that locals have been able to enjoy was in 2023, which followed a forced break during COVID-19. But even then, things appeared...

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5 d. ago Pride festivals: breaking the isolation of LGBTQ+ people in rural areas

'A village that supports a member of the queer community is a village that will support all those people.'

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6 d. ago Montana bar shooting suspect captured, ending weeklong search

A man suspected in a shooting at a Montana bar that left four people dead was captured Friday just a few miles from where the shooting happened after hundreds of law enforcement officers spent the past week scouring nearby mountainsides, authorities said. Michael Paul Brown, 45, was taken into custody around 2 p.m. near the […]

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6 d. ago From Stephen King to New Jersey diners, History Press books cover local lore around the US

NEW YORK (AP) — With deep knowledge of Stephen King’s books and curiosity about their inspirations, writer Sharon Kitchens began a journey around Maine. As she learned about the real-life settings and people behind such fiction as “IT” and “Salem’s Lot,” she arranged them into an online map and story she called “Stephen King’s Maine.” […]

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6 d. ago Titan disaster: Federal Fisheries Department was part of previous OceanGate mission

HALIFAX — The federal Fisheries Department is shedding new light on its relationship with OceanGate, the American company behind the deepsea Titan submersible that imploded south of Newfoundland in 2023, killing all five people aboard. The department confirmed Thursday that in the summer of 2021, a staff member boarded a vessel “associated with OceanGate” to […]

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7 d. ago Colby Cosh: Nova Scotia’s paranoid ban on walking in the forest

If it's worthwhile to keep people out of forests to prevent fires, surely the province will crack down on urban tent encampments. Right?

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7 d. ago Former Superman star Dean Cain says he’s joining ICE: ‘This is what people voted for’

America ‘built on patriots stepping up,’ actor declares

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8 d. ago London's deadly Legionnaires' disease outbreak is over: Health officials

A deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease that infected 70 people and killed three in London and surrounding Middlesex County has officially been declared over, public health officials said Wednesday. The declaration comes after no new cases have developed symptoms since July 9, officials with the Middlesex-London health unit said in a statement on Wednesday morning. […]

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9 d. ago 'Knives, sledgehammers, golf clubs' used in deadly fight: Witness

As many as six males were fighting with “knives, sledgehammers and golf clubs” on a street in southeast London when one of them was fatally stabbed, a witness said. London police said officers responded to multiple 911 calls shortly after 1:30 a.m. Sunday about “a group of people fighting with weapons” in the area of […]

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1 week ago What is known about search for former U.S. soldier suspected of killing 4 at Montana bar

The search for a former U.S. soldier suspected of killing four people at a bar in Montana stretched into a fourth day Monday, with deputies scouring the mountainous terrain by foot and air after the man escaped in a stolen vehicle containing camping gear. Authorities say Michael Paul Brown, 45, fatally shot four people Friday […]

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1 week ago Storm Floris batters Scotland with 145 km/h winds, disrupts travel and festivals

LONDON — Authorities in Scotland cancelled trains, closed parks and warned people to tie down backyard trampolines as a rare summer storm brought potentially destructive winds to northern Britain. The U.K.’s Meteorological Office on Monday issued an “amber” wind warning in Scotland for Storm Floris, meaning there is a potential risk to lives and property, […]

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1 week ago Secret European destinations where you can fly under the radar like rich people

It wasn’t long ago that luxury travellers planned their itineraries to see and be seen. Now the ultimate flex is receding entirely from public view. Yesterday’s hallmarks of status — a sun-drenched table at St. Tropez’s Club 55, a front-row lounger at Cala Jondal in Ibiza, dropping anchor off Nammos Beach in Mykonos — have […]

Economics

3 w. ago SHAPIRO: Online media ecosystem an inaccurate gauge of American views

This week, Tucker Carlson spoke at Turning Point USA’s big event in Tampa, Florida. Without naming President Donald Trump, he unleashed on the Trump administration, suggesting it’s covering up a child sex trafficking ring and denigrating Trump’s victories thus far. “If you deny people what they actually want, long enough and instead substitute things you claim they should […]

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3 w. ago Indonesian passenger ferry catches fire at sea, killing at least 5

MANADO, Indonesia (AP) — A passenger ferry carrying hundreds of people caught fire at sea on Sunday off Sulawesi island in Indonesia, killing at least five people, officials said. More than 280 people were rescued and evacuation efforts were ongoing. The KM Barcelona 5 was headed to Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi province, from […]

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3 w. ago Opinion: David Suzuki taught me to fear the future — now I’m pushing back

As a university student, I read The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki in 1998. Like many young people, I was moved but also frightened. The book didn’t just inform me; it left me with a deep fear about the future. I believed the world was headed for environmental collapse, and I carried those ideas for years. Now, […]

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