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City and provincial officials gave assurances there’s little health risk for residents in Port Weller, two months after exposure to a chemical fire in mid-January which saw nearby neighbourhoods evacuated. Some 100-plus attendees joined authorities for a town hall at the Grantham Lions Club Wednesday to hear an official update …

The NHL’s top boss has noticed a change in tone around conversations about building a new event centre in Calgary. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was in the southern Alberta city Tuesday and shared some of what he heard from a “constructive” and “friendly” meeting with Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek and …

One person has died after a fire at an encampment in Toronto, officials say. Toronto Fire Capt. Bill Papakonstantinou told Global News crews were called to Liberty Street and Jefferson Avenue in Liberty Village at around 6:10 a.m. for a cell tower fire. When firefighters arrived, they extinguished the blaze. …

Flights are mostly back on schedule at the Vancouver International Airport, but the facility is still recovering from the chaos brought on by last month’s holiday snowstorm. Amid the hundreds of cancellations the week before Christmas, thousands of travellers found themselves delayed or rebooked — and many were separated from …

A man is in hospital with serious injuries after a car collided with a building in Toronto and hit a pedestrian, officials say. Toronto paramedics told Global News they responded to a collision in the area of Church Street and Carlton Street. Two people from the vehicle were taken to …

Senior officials with Nova Scotia’s Health Department have provided answers on the state of the province’s health system. They were questioned last week during the Public Accounts committee meeting by Liberal MLA and Health and Wellness shadow minister Brendan Maguire. Maguire called on the officials to release more information on …

The exiled opposition leader of Belarus will meet separately with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly over the next two days in the hopes of persuading them to impose further sanctions on military and security services in her country. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya — who was widely considered to have won …

Iran’s courts will deal firmly with anyone who causes disruption or commits crimes during a wave of anti-government protests, the judiciary said on Tuesday, signalling that authorities intend to hand down harsh sentences to convicted demonstrators. One of the biggest challenges to Iran’s clerical leaders since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the …

South Korean officials admitted responsibility and apologized on Tuesday for failures in preventing and responding to a Halloween crowd surge that killed more than 150 people and left citizens shocked and angry. The government is facing growing public scrutiny over whether the crush Saturday night in Seoul’s Itaewon district, a …

Officials have been unable to track down a former Saskatoon pastor at the centre of a $25-million lawsuit, but a judge has agreed to an unusual alternative. Pastor Keith Johnson is believed to be in Oklahoma, but has been “evading” officials trying multiple ways to serve him with the lawsuit documents, …