‘A silent meance’: E-scooter, e-bike debate hits another GTA city
It’s a debate Ontario municipalities have been facing down for years, particularly in large urban centres like Toronto – what to do with e-bikes and e-scooters showing up on sidewalks, in bike lanes and on the roads, particularly as the...
Cargo plane carrying money crashes near Bolivia’s capital, killing at least 15 people, official says
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A cargo plane carrying money crashed Friday near Bolivia’s capital, damaging about a dozen vehicles on highway, scattering bills on the ground and leaving at least 15 people dead and others injured, an official said....
TDSB cuts Gr. 9 at second Toronto school serving students with disabilities
Attending Eastdale Collegiate in the city’s east end has been life-changing for Andrea Seeborn’s 16-year-old son, Charlie. The small secondary school has been a pillar for the community, offering its 114 students both a regular program and a mild intellectual...
Video shows nearly blind refugee being released by Border Patrol, 5 days before his death
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — In the moments after Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a Buffalo doughnut shop, surveillance video recorded Nurul Amin Shah Alam stepping gingerly through the empty parking lot in his county-issued jail booties. He pulls...
Another rent strike brewing in Toronto as landlord seeks retroactive increase
TORONTO — Residents of a west-end Toronto apartment building say they will be going on a rent strike to protest the landlord’s application for a retroactive 2025 rent increase that would amount to more than five per cent. Luz Flores,...
Man pinned under farm machinery in Oshawa has died: Durham police
Durham Regional Police say a man in his 80s who was pinned under farm machinery in Oshawa on Friday has died in hospital. Emergency crews attended a private farm on Ritson Road North near Howden Road in North Oshawa at...
Subway service resumes after chaotic rush hour transit commute on both Line 1 and 2
Subway service has resumed following a more than three-hour suspension on a stretch of Line 2, which made for a chaotic rush hour commute home. Just after 3:30 p.m., the TTC advised commuters that trains were not running between St....
Neil Sedaka, the singer-songwriter behind dozens of hits of the 1960s and ’70s, dies at...
NEW YORK (AP) — Neil Sedaka, the hit-making singer-songwriter whose boyish soprano and bright melodies made him a top act in the early years of rock ‘n’ roll and led to a second run of success in the 1970s, has...
Another rent strike brewing in Toronto as landlord seeks retroactive increase
Residents of a west-end Toronto apartment building say they will be going on a rent strike to protest the landlord’s application for a retroactive 2025 rent increase that would amount to more than five per cent. Luz Flores, who lives...
‘It’s the end of the city’: Battle continues over Toronto’s sixplexes
The war over sixplexes – a residential building divided up into six different homes – may be over in many Toronto wards, but the battles over individual properties continue, block by block. Toronto residents against the structures made their grievances known...
