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Jan Leibel isn’t sure where she’s going to spend the night. She’s been camping out in Medicine Hat’s Riverside Veterans’ Memorial Park, along the South Saskatchewan River, the past few nights, but she was given a $50 ticket for illegal camping and will likely have to find a new spot. “Probably go …
Read More »Ontario made $520M from pot last year. So why do retailers say they’re struggling?
The province of Ontario made more than a half a billion dollars from the cannabis industry in the last fiscal year, according to public accounts released by the government on Friday. But that $520 million is coming at least partially at the expense of struggling local retailers, according to Michael Armstrong, a …
Read More »The Crown, The Walking Dead: The most anticipated TV coming later this year
In a year already full of film and TV releases, there’s still much to come. For the fall and winter months, streamers and traditional broadcast networks are locked in an original-content race — all looking to command eyeballs and bump up audience numbers in an already-overstuffed industry. The good news? …
Read More »Woman mistakenly declared dead by Service Canada for almost a year demands answers
At first, Teresa Shum and her husband, Mark, thought the situation was funny. The Markham, Ont., couple received a notice in February from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) that one of Mark’s tax credits was declined due to his marital status being changed to widower. “We were really taken by surprise,” Shum …
Read More »Britain’s new prime minister attended this B.C. school for a year in the late ’80s
It took a while for the name Liz Truss to ring a bell for Brenda Montagano. Montagano and Truss knew each other for just one year while they were in the same Grade 7 class at Parkcrest Elementary School in Burnaby, B.C., in the late 1980s. Montagano grew up to be …
Read More »As frosh begins, Western beefs up safety after student death, sexual assault reports last year
Western University and its student union overhauled orientation for this fall after a first-year student died near campus during last year’s frosh and at least four women reported sexual assaults. The student union’s safety programming includes a mandatory gender-based sexual violence course the 8,000 incoming first-years had to take before arriving …
Read More »City punts $41M worth of paving work to next year
Millions of dollars worth of road resurfacing projects set to begin across Toronto this month have been delayed and experts warn putting off the work will cost the city more in the long run. Staff issued three tenders for local resurfacing work this spring, received bids from six companies, and then …
Read More »Military probe of reported torture videos still silent after more than a year
More than 14 months after launching an investigation, Canada’s military police have yet to report on what — if anything — Canadian commanders did after being confronted by videos showing alleged atrocities involving Iraqi police being trained as part of a multinational program. The slow pace of the investigation troubles the …
Read More »Cycling deaths investigated by OPP up 400% since this time last year
It’s been a deadly year so far for cyclists as Ontario Provincial Police say they’ve seen a 400 per cent increase in deaths so far compared to this time in 2021. Sgt. Kerry Schmidt reported in a Twitter video posted Tuesday that the OPP have investigated eight cyclist deaths since January, while …
Read More »Why some familiar faces are taking a second shot at Toronto city council seats this year
Some familiar faces will take another shot at winning a seat on a Toronto city council that’s poised for a lot of change in this fall’s election. With seven incumbents departing, a group of former city politicians, and some veterans of the tumultuous 2018 campaign, have registered to run. The official deadline to enter …
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