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TORONTO — At 4:11 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2003, the system supervisor in the control room overseeing Ontario’s electrical grid saw four alarms pop up on his computer screen. Then came 30,000 more. “It looks like we’ve had a disturbance,” Todd Parcey recalls saying, in what proved to be a …
Read More »Canada battling its ‘worst wildfire season of the 21st century’: minister – National
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted June 13, 2023 6:28 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada is experiencing its worst wildfire season of the 21st century. Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair announced the grim milestone Monday, saying more than 47,000 square kilometres have burned so far …
Read More »‘The worst possible system:’ Critics call for reforms to Toronto’s mayoral election – Toronto
When Torontonians enter the polling booth on June 26 to elect a new mayor, they will stare down a ballot with 102 candidates before marking a single vote. Whoever gets the most votes wins, regardless of their share of the overall ballots cast. With more than half a dozen high …
Read More »High interest rates are slowing homebuilding, but the worst is yet to come – National
Homebuilding in Canada is slowing down just as policymakers are trying to pick up the pace. The rapid surge in interest rates over the last year is starting to throttle the pace of homebuilding, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) warned in a new housing supply report Wednesday. As …
Read More »A look at the 22 Nova Scotians killed in Canada’s worst mass shooting
The victims in Canada’s worst mass shooting included an RCMP officer, a teacher, health-care workers, retirees, neighbours of the shooter and two correctional officers killed in their home. Read more: ‘There were failures’: N.S. shooting inquiry report slams RCMP response to 2020 tragedy Here is a look at the 22 …
Read More »Toronto’s Pearson airport now 2nd worst in world for delays. Ottawa says travel woes on the mend
Fatima Sherefa, 17, had a rough night at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Aug. 6. Her flight from Toronto home to Winnipeg had been delayed several times and then, just after midnight, it was cancelled. Sherefa says Air Canada staff didn’t offer hotel accommodation for the night, and instead passed out yoga …
Read More »Canada’s bee colonies see worst loss in 20 years, explosion of mites blamed
Nearly half of Canada’s honeybee colonies didn’t survive the winter, the largest rate of colony loss in the country in the last 20 years, according to preliminary data. “That’s pretty disturbing,” said Ernesto Guzman, president of the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists, which surveyed commercial beekeepers across the country. Many …
Read More »Apple’s worst shipping delay is for a $19 polishing cloth
You’d think global supply shortages would hit Apple’s tech products the hardest, but that’s apparently not the case. As The New York Times reports, Apple’s most backordered new release is its $19 Polishing Cloth. Order the microfiber cloth from the company store as of this writing and you’ll wait 10 …
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