CBC - Kitchener-Waterloo (55 minutes ago)
St. Patrick's Day is next week. While many may celebrate with a pint in one hand and perhaps a stew in the other, Irish food culture offers much more. CBC K-W's food columnist Jasmine Mangalaseril checks out the Irish food scene in Waterloo region and Ireland itself.
ReadOttawa Citizen - Local (56 minutes ago)
Show # 6 Elmwood School Clue (High School Edition) Director: Rae-Anna Maitland Student Director: Izzie Morgan Ariana Guerra-Nguyen, Lead Critic St. Patrick's High School Was it Mrs. White in the billiard room with the rope? Or Professor Plum in the hall with the candlestick? Neither. The real masterminds behind the mystery of Boddy Manor were […]
ReadCBC - Toronto (4 hours ago)
With the recent rainfall and snowmelt, officials in Mississauga are warning residents about the increased risk of floods.The city says its working with local conservation authorities to monitor conditions. But Mississauga is home to several bodies of water, a fact that makes the area especially vulnerable in the springtime.
ReadCBC - Ottawa (5 hours ago)
Clarence-Rockland councillors say they're left with more questions than answers about how Alto's proposed high-speed rail network will impact the municipality after representatives from the Crown corporation tasked with overseeing the project paid a visit to a recent city council meeting.
ReadCBC - Toronto (5 hours ago)
Actor Timothée Chalamet has sparked controversy in the performing arts world after he said "no one cares about” ballet and opera anymore. CBC's Alejandrina Alvarez spoke to Toronto ballet dancers and teachers about the art form's relevancy, accessibility and future.
ReadCBC - Toronto (5 hours ago)
Ontario wants to exempt the premier, cabinet ministers and parliamentary assistants from being subject to the province's freedom-of-information (FOI) rules, a move that's sparked outrage from experts, opposition parties, and the province's privacy commissioner.
ReadToronto Sun - Local (6 hours ago)
SAFE AND SECURE Re “Extra security long overdue” (Joe Warmington, March 12): While it’s undeniable that the $10 million the federal government is offering to assist Jewish organizations in enhancing security is a good thing, how about tackling the “root causes,” as progressives love to yammer on about when it relates to one of their […]
ReadWindsor Star - Local (10 hours ago)
It was another step forward for the Windsor Spitfires. A 6-3 road win over the Sarnia Sting on Friday assured the Spitfires of finishing in the top four teams in the Western Conference, which will give the club home-ice advantage in the first round of the OHL playoffs. "That was a big step and we have to keep going,” Spitfires' head...
ReadCityNews - Toronto (12 hours ago)
Police have identified a woman whose body was found inside a home in the Hillcrest Village neighbourhood of North York. Investigators say they were called to a home in the Threadneedle Crescent and Cresthaven Drive area just after 1:30 p.m. on March 11. “The circumstances in which the victim was found were deemed to be […]
ReadCityNews - Toronto (13 hours ago)
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Auston Matthews will miss the rest of the season due to left leg injury. The NHL team says Matthews suffered a torn knee ligament and bruised quadriceps muscle in Thursday’s game against the Anaheim Ducks. The club says it’s a Grade 3 tear of the medial collateral ligament. Matthews will be […]
ReadToronto Sun - Local (13 hours ago)
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Six Canadians began the week at the Players Championship, and four of them will be around to see the weekend at TPC Sawgrass after the cut claimed two players from the Canuck field. Here’s how they finished after 36 holes: T4 Corey Conners -8 (69-67) After some recent lacklustre results, […]
ReadCityNews - Toronto (14 hours ago)
Harm reduction advocates say the Ford government’s decision to end funding for all supervised consumption sites later this year is “wrong” and “cowardly” and will lead to many more overdose deaths. The Fred Victor Centre and South Riverdale Community Health Centre - the last two provincially funded sites in Toronto - were informed by the...
ReadToronto Sun - Local (16 hours ago)
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said his top law man is preparing to go to court late Friday to gain an emergency injunction to stop the planned Al-Quds Day protest outside the United States consulate from taking place on Saturday afternoon. "They are going to try,” Ford told the Toronto Sun of his government’s efforts to […]
ReadCityNews - Toronto (16 hours ago)
Snowfall blanketed parts of the GTA late Friday morning, and the conditions led to multiple road closures, including on Highway 401. There are currently major issues in the westbound 401 lanes, which were closed between Cedar Creek Road and Oxford Rd 29 shortly after 11 a.m. A second multi-vehicle crash occurred just before 5 p.m. […]
ReadCBC - Thunder Bay (16 hours ago)
People facing food insecurity in Thunder Bay, Ont., are often dealing with several other compounding challenges that make it hard to meet their basic needs. That was one of the main takeaways from the Lakehead Social Planning Council's (LSPC) latest pilot project, called "Removing Access Barriers to Food and Essential Services.” Here's what the...
ReadCityNews - Toronto (17 hours ago)
Snowfall blanketed parts of the GTA late Friday morning, and the conditions led to multiple road closures, including on Highway 401. Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said eastbound 401 lanes were closed just past Guelph Line as of 11:30 a.m. due to a collision involving two tractor-trailers. “If you don’t need to be on the roads, […]
ReadCBC - Ottawa (17 hours ago)
The joint trial of an Ottawa man and woman accused of killing a seven-week-old boy continued this week with the infant's biological father testifying that he'd expressed his concerns about the mother to authorities months before his son's death in October 2021.
ReadWindsor Star - Local (17 hours ago)
Two suspects remain on the loose after Windsor police arrested another person for break and enter and theft of a vehicle. Two suspects were captured on surveillance footage March 8, just after 3 a.m., stealing a 2017 Dodge Charger from a driveway of a residence in the 2300 block of Meldrum Road. Several hours later, […]
ReadCityNews - Toronto (18 hours ago)
York Regional Police investigators say they’ve arrested two suspects and are seeking a third after someone trying to sell valuable gold bars was robbed in Markham late last month. Investigators say the seller met with two of the suspects on February 22, 2026, in an attempt to sell them the gold bars worth an estimated […]
ReadCityNews - Toronto (19 hours ago)
A former boy scout leader in Newmarket has been charged in connection to several alleged sexual assaults that occurred in the 1970s. York police say that earlier this year, several victims came forward to report the sexual assaults. The victims were all under 16 years old when the assaults happened. On Wednesday, Aubrey Wayne Stentiford, […]
ReadCBC - Kitchener-Waterloo (19 hours ago)
A University of Waterloo researcher has been in Italy taking in the Paralympics. That's because her work over the past decade has driven the most significant overhaul in classification rules for vision‑impaired Nordic and alpine skiing in more than 30 years.
ReadCBC - Kitchener-Waterloo (19 hours ago)
Driving in southern Ontario is difficult Friday with police reporting multiple collisions because of winter weather. That includes Hwy. 401 between Cambridge and Woodstock, eastbound lanes of Hwy. 402 at Wonderland Road in Oxford County, and westbound Hwy. 403 in Norwich Township.
ReadCityNews - Toronto (19 hours ago)
TORONTO — Stores across Ontario could soon open on Family Day and Victoria Day under a new bill the provincial government plans to introduce. The announcement came via a news release today, but was first signalled last month by Premier Doug Ford, who noted he couldn’t shop at Home Depot on Family Day. He said […]
ReadCityNews - Toronto (20 hours ago)
Police have arrested a 27‑year‑old man accused of repeatedly targeting a resident with racist and antisemitic harassment, including allegedly standing outside the victim’s midtown Toronto home and playing a speech by Adolf Hitler on his cellphone. Authorities say the incidents occurred between Feb. 28 and March 6 in the Eglinton Avenue East...
ReadWindsor Star - Local (20 hours ago)
The Windsor Jewish Federation condemned what it called a "very disturbing” trend of antisemitic hate crimes following an attack on a Detroit-area synagogue Thursday afternoon. The FBI said a man armed with a rifle rammed his truck into Temple Israel, a synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, MI, on Thursday and died after exchanging gunfire with...
ReadWindsor Star - Local (20 hours ago)
The puck dropped first, followed by 3,000 rubber duckies. Thousands of ducks flew — more like fell — from the rafters of the WFCU Centre following Thursday night's Windsor Spitfires game for the Hospice Rubber Duck Drop. "On behalf of our entire team, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to the Windsor Spitfires […]
ReadWindsor Star - Local (21 hours ago)
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will announce his plan for a renewed Auto Pact between Canada and the U.S. in Windsor on Sunday — a “realistic” proposal he said would eliminate tariffs on Canadian auto sales in America. Before crossing the border to Detroit to meet with auto executives on Friday morning, Poilievre previewed his proposal,...
ReadCityNews - Toronto (21 hours ago)
A lawyer representing the organizers of an Al-Quds Day rally in Toronto says the event will go ahead as planned on Saturday despite Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s announcement that his government is seeking an injunction to stop it. In an email late afternoon Friday, lawyer Stephen Ellis said they have received no notice of a […]
ReadCityNews - Toronto (21 hours ago)
Ontario’s payout to Elon Musk’s SpaceX over a cancelled Starlink contract will remain a secret after the two sides agreed to a confidential settlement, The Canadian Press has learned. The province said the kill fee for what was set to be a $100-million deal is “significantly less than the contract value,” and the amount paid […]
ReadWindsor Star - Local (21 hours ago)
Downtown Windsor will soon have 90 publicly purchased — but privately monitored — eyes in the sky to watch for bad behaviour. Known as Project Greenlight, the $450,000 program will see commercial properties within the Downtown Windsor Business Improvement Association request commercial-grade cameras and sign a contract with Security One for...
ReadCityNews - Toronto (22 hours ago)
Ontario is set to make Premier Doug Ford and cabinet members’ records secret as it “modernizes” freedom-of-information (FOI) laws. Speaking Friday morning at Queen’s Park, Procurement Minister Stephen Crawford said changes to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA), which will be introduced when the legislature...
ReadCityNews - Toronto (22 hours ago)
A three‑month investigation into retail thefts across the GTA has ended with a Brampton man facing charges — and police recovering an unusually large haul of alcohol, butter and ghee. Officers executed a search warrant at a Brampton home on March 9, uncovering what investigators describe as a stockpile of stolen goods linked to thefts […]
ReadCityNews - Toronto (22 hours ago)
Radko Gudas will have to answer for his knee on Auston Matthews. The Anaheim Ducks captain will have a hearing over the phone, the NHL Department of Player Safety announced on Friday. As a result of it being a telephone hearing, Gudas cannot be suspended for more than five games. The incident occurred in the Maple Leafs’ 6-4 win over the...
ReadWindsor Star - Local (22 hours ago)
High school students displayed their generosity Thursday with a truckload of hundreds of donated supplies for people in need at an event at St. Thomas of Villanova Catholic High School in LaSalle. The donations will go to Second Chance Ministry, a non-profit in Windsor-Essex that provides practical and spiritual support for people struggling with...
ReadWindsor Star - Local (22 hours ago)
Essex County's population surged by 50,000 people since 2020, with more companies hiring and more people looking for work — but those interests always don't align. One takeaway from a new Workforce WindsorEssex report outlining local trends, challenges, and opportunities is that while jobs are out there, the local talent doesn't always match what...
ReadCityNews - Toronto (23 hours ago)
Parts of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) remain under a snowfall warning while a special weather statement is in effect for Toronto, with up to 15 centimetres of snow expected for eastern areas of the region on Friday. Natasha Ramsahai, chief meteorologist at CityNews, said on-and-off snow will continue through Friday evening with some heavier […]
ReadToronto Sun - Local (24 hours ago)
New guide will help people understand what they can do and what is possible Liam Gill, an advocate of Missing Middle housing which typically includes structures that contain anywhere from five to 10 residential units, says the time is right for homeowners to turn into developers. Last month, Gill launched his Citizen Developer’s Guide in […]
ReadToronto Sun - Local (24 hours ago)
Tax cut would be a lifeline for an industry in retreat and stimulus for an economy that relies heavily on residential construction The residential construction industry in Ontario is staring down one of the bleakest outlooks in its history. Sales have plunged, projects are stalling and losses are mounting. Housing affordability has eroded to the...
ReadToronto Sun - Local (24 hours ago)
Canadians are bringing the great outdoors in, report finds A home is more than just four walls and a roof. It's the scent of fresh coffee on a Sunday morning, the warmth of natural wood under your feet and the perfectly curated playlist that fills your living room. That's the inviting scene Taskrabbit, a platform […]
ReadToronto Sun - Local (A day ago)
In the regimented world of design, curves offer a more relaxing form In a world that has marinated in straight lines since time immemorial, new breed cigar and oval shaped dining tables feel like a collective exhale. Their arrival replaces hard with softer edges, whilst hinting at fluid geometry that reads less like a boundary, […]
ReadToronto Sun - Local (A day ago)
Leading architect is responsible for many of Toronto’s most familiar landmarks Toronto Edwardian: Frank Darling, Architect of Toronto's Imperial Age By David Winterton, foreword by Michael McClelland McGill-Queens University Press, $80 Frank Darling (1850-1923) was probably the leading Toronto architect of what has become known as the Edwardian...
ReadWindsor Star - Local (A day ago)
Here’s a look at what’s happening across Windsor-Essex this weekend. STAR FAVES Soulful sounds: Start the day on a joyful note as the Windsor Symphony Orchestra fills the Capitol Theatre (121 University Ave. W.) with gospel music from across Windsor-Essex on Saturday, March 14. The orchestra is joined by a new choir of local singers, with...
ReadToronto Sun - Local (A day ago)
Crude oil prices are behaving like the tide these days — moving up and down with unsettling force. Just this past week, prices jumped from roughly $78 on March 10 to above $95 by March 13. For the food industry, this kind of volatility is far more troubling than a steady rise in energy costs. […]
ReadWindsor Star - Local (A day ago)
One man was arrested and police are looking for a second suspect after a break and enter at the vacant former Kingsville High School. Ontario Provincial Police were called to the school, which is located on Main Street East, Thursday around 4 a.m., after an alarm was activated. When officers arrived they discovered two people […]
ReadWindsor Star - Local (A day ago)
Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement warning of strong wind gusts Friday for Windsor, Leamington and Essex County. The statement, issued at 4:41 a.m. Friday, warns of westerly or southwesterly winds gusting 70 to 90 km/h this afternoon lasting into tonight. Strong southerly winds are expected to develop this...
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