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Toronto woman wins $1M prize after years of playing the lottery
Lynch has regularly added ENCORE to her tickets for the past year — a $1 add-on she now credits with changing her life.
Middle income earners increasingly looking to leave Toronto: report
A new report on affordability reveals middle income earners are leaving Toronto as a result of high housing costs and congestion.
Man busted at Peace Bridge with 78 pounds of weed in rental truck said GPS accidentally led him to Canada
A man who was arrested at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo, New York, with $230,000 worth of marijuana in a rental truck told authorities he inadvertently ended up at the border crossing after following ...
Union slams package company DHL’s ask for federal strike intervention
Unifor sent a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney and cabinet ministers this week decrying a request from package company DHL to intervene in a strike.
Scientists warn that greenhouse gas accumulation is accelerating and more extreme weather will come
Humans are on track to release so much greenhouse gas in less than three years that a key threshold for limiting global warming will be nearly unavoidable, according to a study to be released Thursday ...
Karen Read found not guilty of second-degree murder, guilty of drunken driving in boyfriend’s death
A jury found Karen Read not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges Wednesday in the 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend.
The world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV could stop transmission — if people can get it
The U.S. has approved the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV, maker Gilead Sciences announced Wednesday. It’s the first step in an anticipated global rollout that could protect millions – ...
Doug Ford says he treats First Nations ‘like gold’ but they ‘keep coming hat in hand’
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is willing to give First Nations what they want for their support in developing mines, but they cannot "keep coming hat in hand all the time to the government" for ...
US starts evacuating some diplomats from its embassy in Israel as Iran conflict intensifies
The State Department has begun evacuating nonessential diplomats and their families from the U.S. embassy in Israel as hostilities between Israel and Iran intensify and there is the possibility that ...
US resumes visas for foreign students but demands access to social media accounts
The U.S. State Department said Wednesday it is restarting the suspended process for foreigners applying for student visas but all applicants will now be required to unlock their social media accounts ...
As Canada’s only ‘sugar tax’ ends, a study suggests it may have been effective
A new study suggests Newfoundland and Labrador’s tax on sugar-sweetened drinks may have dissuaded people from buying and drinking the beverages. The study tracked beverage sales in the province before ...
Man charged with killing prominent lawmaker could face a rarity for Minnesota: the death penalty
The man charged with killing a prominent Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another could face something that is a rarity for Minnesota but could become more common under the Trump administration: the ...