Canada’s largest and oldest HIV service organization, AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT), will close in March after 42 years supporting those living with HIV.
Founded in 1983, the groundbreaking organization offered front-line services, peer and mental health support, and helmed advocacy and fundraising efforts to end HIV stigma and advance health care policy in Canada.
Media outlets will not be able to report on the mental-health history of the man accused in the Lapu-Lapu Day street festival attack before his eventual trial on 11 counts of second-degree murder and 31 counts of attempted murder, a judge has ruled.
On Thursday, B.C. Provincial Court Judge Reginald Harris dismissed an attempt by a media consortium, which includes The Globe and Mail, to lift a publication ban on details of this summer’s hearing into the mental fitness of Kai-Ji Adam Lo.
Michael Mallinson had never met Charlie Kirk, nor had he ever heard the name of the American right-wing commentator who was shot dead in broad daylight at a Utah college event on Wednesday.
But the retired Torontonian has done some research about him after his death.
Workers at Ontario colleges went on strike Thursday, one of two major labour disputes that have disrupted the first weeks of classes at Canadian postsecondary schools.
More than 10,000 support staff in the Ontario college system launched pickets at the province’s 24 institutions after negotiations with the College Employer Council broke down over worker demands related to job security and other issues.
An agreement between the Haida Nation and the federal and provincial governments has been given court approval, cementing the nation’s Aboriginal title to all one million hectares of Haida Gwaii, once known as the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Private landowners have been assured that there will be no changes to their ownership status, but the transition of governance over Crown-land tenures and parks on the archipelago off B.C.’s north coast is still being worked out.
At least five cutting-edge clinical trials for childhood cancer have been closed to new Canadian patients because of the Trump administration’s cuts to scientific funding and its directive that grants no longer be shared with foreign researchers.
Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children halted enrolment in three trials for incurable brain cancer last month after the U.S. National Cancer Institute decided not to renew funding for a consortium of pediatric brain-tumour scientists whose only Canadian site was at SickKids.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says the government will sign agreements with provinces and territories that have yet to ink deals for public coverage of some diabetes medications and supplies, as well as contraceptives.
Mr. Carney’s comments on Thursday in Edmonton, where he has been meeting with his caucus ahead of Parliament’s fall sitting, marked the first time that the Prime Minister has explicitly committed to additional pharmacare agreements.
Reducing emissions from Alberta’s oil sands, including progress on a massive carbon-capture project, will be a “necessary condition” to unlocking new pipelines to Canada’s coasts to access export markets, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday.
The Pathways Alliance carbon-capture initiative is a 400-kilometre-long pipeline that would transport carbon trapped at oil-sands facilities to an underground hub near Cold Lake, Alta., with the aim of reducing emissions by 22 megatonnes a year.
The global controversy over an Israel-affiliated team’s participation in the world cycling tour is coming to Canada this week as race organizers in Quebec City and Montreal grapple with possible disruption by pro-Palestinian activists amidst an outcry over the war in Gaza.
The Grand Prix Cycliste events in the two cities are bracing for protests against Israel-Premier Tech, a team with deep ties to both Canada and Israel, which has faced mounting opposition since the beginning of the conflict in October 2023.
The National Hockey League has cleared the way for the five members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team who were acquitted of sexual-assault charges to return to the NHL.
The league issued a statement Thursday that said Dillon Dubé, Cal Foote, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart and Michael McLeod will be eligible to sign new contracts “no sooner than October 15, 2025, and eligible to play in NHL games no sooner than December 1, 2025.”
A documentary about a retired Israeli general’s Oct. 7 rescue mission will hit theatres mere weeks after its Toronto premiere was met with protesters.
Representatives for the film say The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue is set to open Oct. 3 on 125 screens in Canada and the United States, including in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.
Beth Bilson, a leading academic scholar on labour and administrative law, the first woman to be appointed dean at the University of Saskatchewan’s law school and chair of an influential federal task force on pay equity, has died at age 79.
“Beth was the epitome of an excellent academic lawyer,” said Thomas Cromwell, a retired Supreme Court of Canada justice who worked closely with Ms. Bilson when she was editor of the Canadian Bar Review and he chaired the publication’s editorial board. The two first got to know each other as legal academics in the 1980s, when Mr. Cromwell taught law at Dalhousie University and Ms. Bilson was at the University of Saskatchewan.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his party will introduce a bill this fall that would make it harder for people accused of certain crimes to get bail.
Poilievre says the proposal would create a new category of major offences that includes things like sexual assault, kidnapping, human trafficking, home invasion and firearms charges.
Canadian shoppers now have a chance to get their share of a $500-million settlement in a class-action lawsuit related to the alleged industry-wide price fixing of bread.
Strosberg Wingfield Sasso LLP and Orr Taylor LLP said Thursday the claims process is now open in the approved settlement involving Loblaw Cos. Ltd. L-T and its parent company George Weston Ltd. WN-T
The Ontario government is proposing measures aimed at boosting safety at child-care facilities, and a man is facing dangerous driving charges after an SUV crashed into a daycare north of Toronto, killing a toddler and injuring six other children.
Three staff members were also hurt in the crash on Wednesday at First Roots Early Education Academy in Richmond Hill, Ont.
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One of two finalists in the competition to build the Royal Canadian Navy’s next fleet of submarines is pitching multiple industrial partnerships and economic benefits in the hopes of sealing the deal.
Hanwha Oceans is floating various industrial-technological benefit collaborations that could involve investments in Canadian lithium-ion battery production, liquefied natural gas, aerospace, steel, critical minerals mining and sustainable energy.
Canada has a need for a co-ordinated flash flood warning system and could deepen its European partnerships as the United States cuts climate- and weather-related funding, says a new report digging into the future of Canada’s weather service.
The independent assessment prepared for Environment and Climate Change Canada says significant cuts to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration threaten a wide range of weather and water monitoring in Canada, from the Arctic to the Great Lakes.
Air Canada passengers whose travel plans were upended by last month’s labour disruptions are owed more than $66-million in compensation for lost time and inconvenience from the airline, according to estimates from a Toronto-based aviation tech firm.
This figure is above and beyond any refunds or rebookings that may be owed by the airline.
Good morning. As speed-camera vandalism sweeps across Toronto, Doug Ford is calling for an end to photo radar − more on that below, along with a potential teachers strike in Alberta and Canada’s blow to the U.S. travel industry. But first:
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A statement of defence filed by a health-services corporation and several nurses in Ontario denies allegations of negligence made in a lawsuit filed on behalf of the family of a 16-year-old boy who waited hours to see a doctor, later dying of pneumonia and septic shock.
The lawsuit involves Finlay van der Werken, an active, hockey-playing teen who was rushed to the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital by his mother on the evening of Feb. 7, 2024. Mr. Van der Werken was experiencing excruciating pain on his right side, she said.
Support staff at Ontario’s publicly funded colleges walked off the job Thursday, striking over not just better wages and benefits, they said, but for the future of the college system.
The 10,000 full-time college support staff, including library technologists, facilities and trades workers, and staff in financial aid and registrar offices, went on strike after failing to reach a new contract deal. Classes are continuing, colleges said.
One toddler is dead and six others injured, along with three adults, after an SUV plowed into a daycare north of Toronto on Wednesday afternoon.
York Regional Police say the vehicle went into the building at Yonge Street and Nottingham Drive, in Richmond Hill, at 3 p.m.
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Quebec Premier François Legault, one year away from the general election and deeply unpopular with the electorate, announced a major cabinet shuffle on Wednesday and promised to soon present a new vision for the province’s economy.
He also pledged to make radical changes to the public service, saying the system needs a “shock treatment” to get out of its lethargy. It’s all part of a plan to revive the fortunes of his party, which according to polls is at risk of disappearing from the electoral map after it won a second mandate three years ago with a decisive majority.
Police say a one and a half-year-old child is dead after an SUV crashed into a daycare north of Toronto this afternoon.
They say six other children ranging in age from one and a half to three years old were injured and brought to hospital, and one of them is in critical condition.
York Regional Police say three staff members were also hurt in the crash at the daycare near Yonge Street and Nottingham Drive in Richmond Hill, Ont.
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A short-lived legal dispute between Degrassi co-creator Linda Schuyler and makers of the new documentary Degrassi: Whatever It Takes has come to an end, allowing its premiere to move forward at the Toronto International Film Festival.
In a joint statement Wednesday, Schuyler and the documentary’s producers said the world premiere will continue as planned this weekend.
A lawyer for Edmonton police says the specific facts of a child’s horrific homicide – coupled with mounting frustration with Alberta’s Crown Prosecution Service – led police to take the exceptional step of asking provincial justice officials to intervene in sentencing for the child’s killer.
Edmonton Police Service lawyer Megan Hankewich said officers learned “by happenstance” that there was a plea deal happening in the case Wednesday, in which the child’s stepmother would plead guilty to manslaughter and receive an eight-year sentence.
Ms. Hankewich said the eight-year-old’s homicide “remains one of the most horrifying cases of child abuse, and ultimately death from abuse, that our police service has ever seen.”
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The man accused of ramming his SUV through a busy Vancouver street festival this spring is mentally fit to stand trial for 11 counts of murder and 31 of attempted murder, a judge ruled Wednesday.
B.C. Provincial Court Judge Reginald Harris made the assessment of Kai-Ji Adam Lo’s fitness after weeks of interviews by a psychiatrist in the hospital where he is being held.
Alberta teachers have officially started the countdown clock toward an Oct. 6 provincewide strike, with the union’s head and the government accusing the other of failing students.
“Teachers’ patience has run out,” Jason Schilling, president of the Alberta Teachers’ Association, told reporters Wednesday.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Canada is “evaluating” its relationship with Israel, calling its attack on Hamas leadership in Qatar unacceptable.
But she stopped short of echoing the call from the EU for a suspension of trade with Israel or sanctions, citing instead Canada’s plan to recognize a Palestinian state at the upcoming United Nations’ General Assembly.
Jess McIver knows black holes are real. She can hear them dancing in the dark.
An astrophysicist and associate professor at the University of British Columbia, Dr. McIver spends her time reading the subtle vibrations in spacetime that rattle our planet when distant black holes spiral into each other and violently collide.
Toronto’s park department has announced a program to repair and replace more than 125 public bathrooms across the city. Finally, a long-overdue effort to tackle an essential civic problem. Yet the rush to act threatens Toronto’s design culture.
The Washroom Enhancement Project is rolling out rapidly. City spokesperson Jas Baweja says Toronto aims to have 35 projects finished by next year, especially in its most popular parks. The timing aligns neatly with the next municipal election.
Toronto police say they have charged a teenager with first-degree murder in the death of an eight-year-old boy who was killed by a stray bullet while in bed last month.
Police say the accused boy was 15 at the time of the offence, and they have issued Canada-wide warrants for the arrest of two other suspects who were both 17 at the time of the shooting.
The mayor of Barrie, Ont., declared a state of emergency over homeless encampments in the city Tuesday, citing concerns about public safety as a justification for the decision.
Alex Nuttall said in the announcement that the residents of Barrie, a city of nearly 150,000 people north of Toronto, “have had enough” of what he described as “lawlessness.”
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Smoke from Canada’s record-breaking 2023 wildfire season may have led to more than an estimated 82,000 premature deaths globally, according to a new study.
The study, published in the scientific journal Nature on Wednesday, highlights the far-reaching impact of pollution and associated deaths caused by the Canadian fires, primarily in North America and Europe. Researchers concluded that more than 354 million people worldwide were exposed to Canada’s wildfire toxins.
CanLit heavyweights Miriam Toews and Omar El Akkad are finalists for one of the country’s top non-fiction prizes.
The Writers’ Trust of Canada says they are among the five authors shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
Good morning. A wave of youth-led protests has rocked Nepal, resulting in the collapse of its government – more on that below, along with Israel’s strike on Hamas leadership in Qatar and the controversial doc premiering at TIFF today. But first:
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A few years ago in Cincinnati, two cancer surgeons were watching a video of a minimally invasive liver surgery. The doctor who performed the operation, Adnan Alseidi, always welcomed feedback from his friend and surgical colleague Sean Cleary, a world-renowned expert in their field.
Dr. Cleary’s insightful comments left Dr. Alseidi feeling buoyant. It was only later that it dawned on Dr. Alseidi what had actually happened; he had just been schooled.
Mastering It is a summer series to introduce you to Canadians who have sought to rise above being simply good at their chosen endeavour – and who, by perfecting their skill, strive to become the best.
By the time Shane Sakchekapo steps up to throw a dart in any given match, he’s already calculated in his head the potential targets and scores needed to win.
Canada’s ethics watchdog has determined there is no need for a conflict-of-interest “screen” for interactions between the Public Safety Minister, who is responsible for guiding a border bill through Parliament, and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, where his wife is a director.
The Ethics Commissioner also concluded that a screen is not required under federal law for the minister, Gary Anandasangaree – who was born in Sri Lanka and has previously advocated for Tamil refugees – on national-security issues relating to the Tamil community.
A new survey from the YMCA of Canada and YWCA Canada showing a majority of Canadians are in favour of publicly funded child care is intended to shore up support for a federal care program as some provinces’ commitment to the deal appears to be wavering ahead of a critical deadline.
In 2021, the federal government pledged $30-billion to create 250,000 new child care spaces and reduce costs to an average of $10 a day over the next five years.
Ken Dryden would plant the toe of his goalie stick in the ice, resting his leather-clad right blocker hand and left catching hand atop the taped knob as a rest for his chin. He was a sentry temporarily at ease, looking no more bothered than a streetsweeper waiting for traffic to pass.
For some, the pose evoked Rodin’s The Thinker, as though the goalie needed a respite from the frantic action. In the 1970s, it was not uncommon to see a kids’ road hockey game in which both goalies struck the stance.
B.C. Premier David Eby is facing pushback after linking Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program to high youth unemployment and strains on social services, with New Democrats calling his remarks out of step with party values.
In response to a question about provincial belt-tightening at an unrelated news conference last week, Mr. Eby noted Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s call for Ottawa to axe the program and said it was a timely issue that should be considered.
The Public Health Agency of Canada is set to take over the country’s compensation program for individuals who have been severely injured by vaccines next year from an outside company that has been subject to criticism over its administration practices.
Guillaume Bertrand, director of communications for Health Minister Marjorie Michel, said in a statement to The Globe and Mail that a funding agreement with OXARO Inc., an Ottawa-based company, will conclude at the end of March.
He said the federal government plans to transition the administration of the Vaccine Injury Support Program to PHAC.
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