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44-year-old arrested for double homicide in Sudbury, Ont. as police seek additional suspects

30 août 2025 à 19:06

Police in Sudbury, Ont., say they are looking for additional suspects after a double homicide in the city on Friday.

The Greater Sudbury Police Service says officers were called to a building on Paris Street just before 10:30 p.m. on Friday after gunshots were heard.

The bodies of a man and a woman were located in the building.

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The Sudbury police are shown headquarters in Sudbury, Ont., Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023.
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  • The belief in the right to self-defence – and the legal limits of a reasonable response
    In 2011, on the federal election campaign trial, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives promised Canadians “the right to defend their property.” The next year, after his party won a majority government, Mr. Harper rewrote Canada’s law on self-defence. The previous version, dating back to the Liberals in 2003, stated that anyone who is unlawfully assaulted, without provocation, was “justified in repelling force by force” – but no more than necessary. The response also could not be intended to cause death
     

The belief in the right to self-defence – and the legal limits of a reasonable response

30 août 2025 à 08:00
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre called Canada's law on self-defence

In 2011, on the federal election campaign trial, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives promised Canadians “the right to defend their property.” The next year, after his party won a majority government, Mr. Harper rewrote Canada’s law on self-defence.

The previous version, dating back to the Liberals in 2003, stated that anyone who is unlawfully assaulted, without provocation, was “justified in repelling force by force” – but no more than necessary. The response also could not be intended to cause death or grievous bodily harm.

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  • Canadian motorcycle racer Michelle Duff risked death in pursuit of speed
    Michelle Duff was the first North American and, so far, the only Canadian to win a motorcycle race on the world championship grand prix circuit.A triumph at the 1964 Belgian grand prix helped make Duff a popular figure among racing fans in Britain and on the Continent – where the sport enjoyed crowds numbering in the hundreds of thousands – but earned her little notice back home.
     

Canadian motorcycle racer Michelle Duff risked death in pursuit of speed

30 août 2025 à 07:00
Michelle Duff's final GP ride to 3rd in the Canadian 500GP at Mosport on an Arter Matchless G50 in 1967.

Michelle Duff was the first North American and, so far, the only Canadian to win a motorcycle race on the world championship grand prix circuit.

A triumph at the 1964 Belgian grand prix helped make Duff a popular figure among racing fans in Britain and on the Continent – where the sport enjoyed crowds numbering in the hundreds of thousands – but earned her little notice back home.

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  • Toronto to allow larger apartment buildings around some transit stations
    The Ontario government, alongside Toronto City Hall, recently announced planning reforms in Canada’s largest city that would legalize larger apartment buildings around most transit stations. Ontario Housing Minister Rob Flack and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow jointly announced the changes on Aug. 15. They alter Toronto’s official plan in 120 mass transit station areas, or MTSA, around transit stations or stops.
     

Toronto to allow larger apartment buildings around some transit stations

30 août 2025 à 07:00
Condo construction in Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood in August, 2025. Within a 200-metre radius of transit stations, 30-storey towers are now permitted under certain circumstances.

The Ontario government, alongside Toronto City Hall, recently announced planning reforms in Canada’s largest city that would legalize larger apartment buildings around most transit stations.

Ontario Housing Minister Rob Flack and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow jointly announced the changes on Aug. 15. They alter Toronto’s official plan in 120 mass transit station areas, or MTSA, around transit stations or stops.

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  • Southwestern Ontarians leery as province proposes legislation to allow underground carbon storage
    When hydrogen sulphide − also known as sour gas − started bubbling up from underground behind the local library in Wheatley in late June and forced a brief evacuation of nearby homes, it was a stress-inducing déjà vu for this small Ontario town about an hour from Windsor.Four years ago, a similar leak in the basement of a defunct pub caused a massive explosion that destroyed two buildings and injured 20 people − and drew attention to the danger posed by the thousands of old and often improperly
     

Southwestern Ontarians leery as province proposes legislation to allow underground carbon storage

30 août 2025 à 07:00
Destroyed buildings in the centre of Wheatley, Ont., in October, 2021, two months after a gas leak in the basement of a defunct pub caused a massive explosion.

When hydrogen sulphide − also known as sour gas − started bubbling up from underground behind the local library in Wheatley in late June and forced a brief evacuation of nearby homes, it was a stress-inducing déjà vu for this small Ontario town about an hour from Windsor.

Four years ago, a similar leak in the basement of a defunct pub caused a massive explosion that destroyed two buildings and injured 20 people − and drew attention to the danger posed by the thousands of old and often improperly capped oil and gas wells that dot much of Southwestern Ontario.

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  • Do school cellphone bans work? The results are mixed
    Before last fall, when cellphones weren’t yet officially banned during classes in Orly Kaye’s Toronto high school, the students’ glowing screens were ubiquitous. They scrolled TikTok and Instagram Reels, made lunch plans via group chats, played games or watched YouTube videos. Some kids, the 16-year-old says, wouldn’t even turn down the volume or use earbuds. The refrain of “put your phones away, please” from desperate teachers was near-constant, and mostly ignored. Orly wasn’t immune to their p
     

Do school cellphone bans work? The results are mixed

30 août 2025 à 06:00
Teacher Tina Somers prepares her classroom for her grade 8-9 English Language Arts students at John D Bracco School in Edmonton, Alta. Ms. Somers has seen firsthand the positive difference a cellphone ban can have on students.

Before last fall, when cellphones weren’t yet officially banned during classes in Orly Kaye’s Toronto high school, the students’ glowing screens were ubiquitous. They scrolled TikTok and Instagram Reels, made lunch plans via group chats, played games or watched YouTube videos. Some kids, the 16-year-old says, wouldn’t even turn down the volume or use earbuds. The refrain of “put your phones away, please” from desperate teachers was near-constant, and mostly ignored.

Orly wasn’t immune to their phone’s pull either. When they’d get bored during science class, they’d start scrolling. “I’d be half paying attention to class, and half paying attention to Pinterest and drawing,” says Orly, who is going into grade 12.

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Teacher Tina Somers prepares her classroom for her grade 8-9 English Language Arts students at John D Bracco School in Edmonton, Alberta on Thursday, August 28, 2025. Somers says cellphones are a distraction in the classroom. Amber Bracken for The Globe and Mail
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  • Alberta minister calls teachers union ‘manipulative’ as strike or lockout looms amid book ban
    A teachers’ strike or a lockout is looming in Alberta just days before the start of school. The conflict between the province and union is coming to a head as the government mandates book restrictions in school libraries and implements sweeping rules around students’ pronouns and transgender identity.Contract negotiations between the Alberta Teachers’ Association and the province’s bargaining team have reached a significant impasse, said Education and Childcare Minister Demetrios Nicolaides. He
     

Alberta minister calls teachers union ‘manipulative’ as strike or lockout looms amid book ban

29 août 2025 à 21:25

A teachers’ strike or a lockout is looming in Alberta just days before the start of school. The conflict between the province and union is coming to a head as the government mandates book restrictions in school libraries and implements sweeping rules around students’ pronouns and transgender identity.

Contract negotiations between the Alberta Teachers’ Association and the province’s bargaining team have reached a significant impasse, said Education and Childcare Minister Demetrios Nicolaides. He characterized the union as “manipulative” after it declined to accept an offer during mediated talks this week.

“Parents should be furious that union leaders are gambling with their kids’ future,” Mr. Nicolaides told reporters in Calgary, joining Alberta’s Finance Minister Nate Horner on Friday to emphasize that the province cannot afford to pay teachers more than a proposed 12-per-cent salary increase over four years.

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New Minister of Education and Childcare, Demetrios Nicolaides, swears the oath of office in Calgary, Alta., Friday, May 16, 2025.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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  • Jimmy Lai trial is latest sign of Hong Kong’s heartbreaking descent
    Hong Kong is a special sort of place. A tiny enclave on China’s flank, it rose in the course of a generation from steamy colonial port to modern economic dynamo – a magnet for struggling migrants from mainland China, a financial hub for East Asia, a bustling entrepôt with trading links around the world.When I arrived there in the early 1980s to work on a regional newsmagazine, signs of its rising wealth were all around. Skyscrapers were going up left and right. Rolls-Royce limousines carried fre
     

Jimmy Lai trial is latest sign of Hong Kong’s heartbreaking descent

29 août 2025 à 21:00
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai stands accused of 'conspiracy to collude with foreign forces' under Hong Kong’s national security law.

Hong Kong is a special sort of place. A tiny enclave on China’s flank, it rose in the course of a generation from steamy colonial port to modern economic dynamo – a magnet for struggling migrants from mainland China, a financial hub for East Asia, a bustling entrepôt with trading links around the world.

When I arrived there in the early 1980s to work on a regional newsmagazine, signs of its rising wealth were all around. Skyscrapers were going up left and right. Rolls-Royce limousines carried freshly minted millionaires through the clogged streets. Even the tin-roofed shanties that spilled down the hillsides boasted new television sets.

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  • B.C. developer Westbank sells stake in Squamish Nation housing project
    The private developer who had partnered with British Columbia’s Squamish Nation to build the country’s most ambitious Indigenous-owned apartment project to date has sold the last of his stake to a major Ontario pension fund. The move by Ian Gillespie’s Westbank Corp. is the latest in a series of divestments by the company as it grapples with a dramatic slowdown of the Vancouver residential market. The Squamish announced Thursday that the Senakw project, which is just completing the first three t
     

B.C. developer Westbank sells stake in Squamish Nation housing project

29 août 2025 à 20:59
The Senakw Indigenous-led housing development is being built on the traditional lands of the Squamish Nation, and will have more than 6,000 rental units and 1,200 homes when completed in 2030.

The private developer who had partnered with British Columbia’s Squamish Nation to build the country’s most ambitious Indigenous-owned apartment project to date has sold the last of his stake to a major Ontario pension fund.

The move by Ian Gillespie’s Westbank Corp. is the latest in a series of divestments by the company as it grapples with a dramatic slowdown of the Vancouver residential market. The Squamish announced Thursday that the Senakw project, which is just completing the first three towers of a planned 11, will now be a “restructured partnership.”

Police charge 71-year-old man in hate-motivated stabbing of Jewish woman in Ottawa

29 août 2025 à 19:53
The attack has been labelled 'senseless' by Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Prime Minister Mark Carney.

A 71-year-old man from Cornwall, Ont., is facing charges after he allegedly stabbed an elderly woman in Ottawa in what police consider to be a hate-motivated crime.

Police say a woman in her 70s entered a grocery store on Baseline Road with a friend at around 1:35 p.m. on Wednesday when she was approached by a man who stabbed her, causing serious injuries.

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  • Concerns raised about search and rescue in Canada as Norwegian hiker mourned
    In late July, Steffen Skjottelvik set out on what he knew would be a perilous journey through the Canadian North. Carrying a rifle and his backpack, and with his two huskies by his side, the Norwegian hiker planned to traverse 300 kilometres along the coast of Hudson Bay, from Fort Severn, Ont., to York Factory, a remote national historic site in Manitoba, about 250 km southeast of Churchill.
     

Concerns raised about search and rescue in Canada as Norwegian hiker mourned

29 août 2025 à 19:32
Steffen Skjottelvik was reported missing in mid-August. He was found dead on Sunday.

In late July, Steffen Skjottelvik set out on what he knew would be a perilous journey through the Canadian North.

Carrying a rifle and his backpack, and with his two huskies by his side, the Norwegian hiker planned to traverse 300 kilometres along the coast of Hudson Bay, from Fort Severn, Ont., to York Factory, a remote national historic site in Manitoba, about 250 km southeast of Churchill.

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