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TORONTO — The University of Toronto is launching a new climate institute with the help of a $60-million gift. The interdisciplinary Lawson Climate Institute is expected to focus on sustainable technologies, climate policy and efforts to turn the campuses into “living labs” with real-world experiments on new climate solutions. The multi-year gift from Brian and […]

The province’s fire marshal is investigating after man was found dead in a limousine that caught on fire last week in Whitby, Ont. Durham Region police say officers responded to the scene near Consumers Drive and Brock Street just before 9 a.m. on Thursday to assist with a fire call. They say firefighters were on […]

Canadians are reacting to Pope Francis’s death on Easter Monday, which came more than two months after he was hospitalized for a respiratory infection. Here’s what some notable Canadians have to say. “Pope Francis was a voice of moral clarity, spiritual courage, and boundless compassion. He was in many respects the world’s conscience — never […]

The cousin of an international college student killed by a stray bullet in Hamilton last week says the family is devastated by the tragic loss. Balraj Singh says Harsimrat Randhawa’s parents cannot eat or sleep after receiving the news of their only daughter’s death. Hamilton police say Randhawa, a 21-year-old Mohawk College student from India, […]

SAULT STE. MARIE — Sault Ste. Marie police say a man has been arrested after a crash between a pickup truck and an e-bike left one teenager dead and another seriously injured early Sunday morning. Police say officers responded to a crash in the city’s west end around 1 a.m. They allege an 18-year-old was […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s police watchdog says a man was seriously injured when two Toronto police officers fired their guns at him after a traffic stop in the city’s north end Sunday night. The Special Investigations Unit says the incident happened around 11 p.m. after an officer made a traffic stop near Bathurst Street and Sheppard […]

Canadians are reacting to Pope Francis’s death on Easter Monday, which came more than two months after he was hospitalized for a respiratory infection. Here’s what some notable Canadians have to say. “Pope Francis was a voice of moral clarity, spiritual courage, and boundless compassion. He was in many respects the world’s conscience — never […]

TORONTO — London Health Sciences Centre is the latest Canadian hospital to install a weapons detection system in its emergency department as health-care workers across the country continue to grapple with increasing violence. The southwestern Ontario health-care network started using one of the artificial intelligence-driven systems at its University Hospital site on April 15 and […]

ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE — How Canada prepares to win another Olympic gold medal in women’s hockey is going to be dramatically different. The six-team Professional Women’s Hockey League is now able to provide a lot of what Hockey Canada did, meaning women will not move to Calgary to spend half a year trying out for the […]

NESKANTAGA FIRST NATION, ONT. — A First Nation in northern Ontario that has been under a boil-water advisory for over 30 years is calling on all levels of government to respond to a state of emergency in the area, days after announcing it would evacuate community members hundreds of kilometres south to Thunder Bay. Chief […]