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Extreme heat is expected to ease in many parts of Canada today, while the Atlantic provinces continue to bear the brunt of a multi-day heat wave. Relief is expected in southern and eastern Ontario, but Environment Canada says temperatures are still above average for this time of year, with forecasted highs in the low 30s. […]

TORONTO — An Ontario college has opened applications to newcomers for a free program intended to address what it describes as a “critical” shortage of building code officials in the province. The provincial government is funding the training in a move that opposition politicians say is sorely needed, but that they say is just one […]

ST. JOHN’S — Residents near Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest city were ordered to flee a wildfire Tuesday, as thousands of other people across the province faced the prospect of leaving or losing their homes to flames. Officials ordered evacuations in some parts of Paradise, a suburb of the capital St. John’s. The news came barely […]

Toronto police say a man is dead after an alleged stabbing at an east-end home Tuesday afternoon. Police say they responded to a report that someone had been stabbed at a home near Woodbine Avenue and O’Connor Drive just after 2:30 p.m. They say officers found a man with life-threatening injuries. Police say he was […]

ST. JOHN’S — Officials have asked residents near the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador to evacuate as a wildfire burns nearby. The provincial government says people living in parts of the Paradise suburb must leave immediately. Paradise is part of the St. John’s metropolitan area, and home to about 23,000 people. Officials have also declared […]

A new bylaw aimed at reducing renovictions in Toronto is already having noticeable effects, according to tenant and anti-poverty advocates, though some say it’s too early to tell if it will be well-enforced. The Rental Renovation Licence Bylaw was implemented on July 31 and is designed to protect tenants from “bad faith” evictions by their […]

Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet Monday with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who says he plans to urge the prime minister to lower taxes in order to stimulate the economy. Ford says he’ll travel to Ottawa for what he calls a “heart-to-heart” meeting with Carney, who he says is doing a good job. […]

TORONTO — The Stratford Festival will remount “Something Rotten!” in 2026, which will be the last season with artistic director Antoni Cimolino at the helm. The southern Ontario theatre festival says the smash 2024 production, which tells the tale of two of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, will return by popular demand. The season, which runs from April […]

ST. JOHN’S — About 20,000 people living on the outskirts of St. John’s, N.L., were preparing to evacuate their homes and businesses Tuesday as a new wildfire burned near the province’s largest city. Premier John Hogan issued a precautionary evacuation alert late Monday for parts of two towns southwest of St. John’s — Paradise and […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s climate plan is set to be put to the constitutional test again in December. A lawyer for a group of young climate activists says their historic constitutional challenge is set to be heard for a second time in Ontario Superior Court on Dec. 1 and 2. The new hearing comes after Canada’s […]