Category: Ontario

Groundhog wrong? Winter forecast to go out like a lion

It’s frigidly cold in parts of Canada this weekend and the winter weather is expected to continue, with southern Ontario on track to receive an influx of snow on Monday. The mercury in the nation’s capital could dip down past -26 C overnight, feeling like -33 C with the wind chill, according to Environment Canada.

Six stories in the news today, March 7

A report from the Mental Health Commission says more money for child and youth services would boost Canada’s economy and patient health. The commission, which bills its findings as a tool to help provincial and territorial decision-makers, says more than 7.5 million Canadians face mental health issues, with a price tag of $50 billion a year – or nearly 14 hundred dollars a person.

Canada Jetlines has been planning to launch for several years | Canada Jetlines

Vancouver-based upstart airline Canada Jetlines has closed a transaction to be taken over by Jet Metal Corp. and to trade on the TSX-Venture Exchange starting March 7. It remains unclear, however, when the ultra-low-cost carrier, which plans to charge fares that are an average of 40 per cent to 50 per cent less than Air Canada and WestJet, will get off the ground. “We’re not going to promise we’ll be flying by ‘X’ date.

‘Got your back’: Charlie Angus officially launches NDP leadership bid with homage to punk roots

NDP MP Charlie Angus takes part in an emergency debate on the suicide crisis on Aboriginal reserves, particularly in Attawapiskat in Ontario, in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Tuesday, April 12, 2016. With an appeal to the economically and politically disaffected, Charlie Angus officially launched his NDP leadership campaign Sunday at the bar where he attended his first punk show at the age of 15. At a concert-cum-campaign-launch in front of a few hundred packed into the Horseshoe Tavern, an institution in Toronto’s music scene since the 1940s, the Northern Ontario MP unveiled his long-rumoured bid with an appeal to voters behind the slogan “Got your back.”

Shut In program helps combat veteran loneliness

Every month, Bernadette Heagle visits local nursing homes as part of the Cornwall Royal Canadian Legion’s Shut In and Hospital Visit program. There, she and fellow Legion members distribute care packages to the area’s 60 veterans as a small gesture of kindness.

OPP charges driver after flying tractor-trailer wheel causes highway…

The OPP charged a driver and his employer after a set of wheels flew off a commercial tractor-trailer Friday morning, killing the driver of a van travelling in the opposite direction on Highway 417. Brianski’s son, Dennis, posted a heartfelt message on his Facebook account Friday night breaking the tragic news about his dad, who he described as “the kindest man I’ve ever met in my life.”

From polls to protests: the search for a Trump-like political movement in Canada

When chants of “lock her up” – an echo of anti-Clinton vitriol from the U.S. presidential election – erupted last December during a protest at the Alberta legislature, observers quickly flagged it as evidence of the Trump effect in Canada. Witness the struggling town of Smith Falls, Ont., where local residents stood up during a public meeting last month to demand that the town take part in a provincial project that would provide everyone with a guaranteed income.

Census 2016: Canada’s big cities home to big share of 35 million Canadians

In some ways a victim of his own success, the mayor of Kelowna h as been struggling in recent years to rein in his city as it slowly spreads across the B.C. interior, testing his ability to provide core municipal services and build badly needed infrastructure. Nor is the city’s middle-aged spread at all unique, according to the 2016 census data released Wednesday: Canada’s population of 35.15 million is settling in the bigger cities, ensuring they and their suburban neighbours keep growing, while small cities get smaller.

A man looks over a brochure offering retirement savings options.

A decision by an Ontario public pension manager to study the potential consequences of climate change is the latest sign that pension plans are increasingly becoming concerned about how it can hurt the bottom line. OPTrust released a report last week that reviewed how four climate scenarios, factoring in policy changes and disasters including hurricanes and wildfires, would affect its $18 billion portfolio.

Author Bharati Mukherjee dies at age 76

Indian author Bharati Mukherjee, part of a Canadian and American literary power couple with her husband writer Clark Blaise, died Saturday in New York at 76. Mukherjee, who was born in Kolkata, is known around the world for her books including The Middleman and Other Stories, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, that deal with immigrant life and trying to create a new identity for oneself – something she knew well from the experience of her own life. “She was an early writer dealing with the kinds of tensions that we’re still dealing with today,” said Iris Tupholme, her editor at HarperCollins Canada.

Canadians holding dual citizenship with countries targeted by immigration ban can’t enter U.S.

Zawenawedian Dawdian, 2, was one of a group of sponsored Syrian refugees who arrived in Toronto yesterday gathered at the Armenian Cultural Centre where they were paired up with their sponsored families on Wednesday December 16, 2015. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greets 16-month-old Madeleine Jamkossian, right, and her father Kevork Jamkossian, refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war, during their arrival at Pearson International airport, in Toronto, on Friday, Dec. 11, 2015.

Ontario Implementing New Programs To Bail System

Ontario is moving forward with its plan to make the criminal justice system faster and fairer by implementing key programs to help reduce time-to-trial and improve the bail system in southwestern Ontario. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms requires that criminal trials take place within a reasonable amount of time.

Canada can forge ties with Trump while sticking up for values, Hajdu says

Federal Labour Minister Patty Hajdu says it’s possible to forge a strong relationship with the new U.S. government while standing up for values that may be at odds with those of the Trump administration. The abrupt turnaround in Canada-U.S. relations is dominating discussions as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the federal cabinet hold two-day retreat in Calgary.

Ontario Tourism’s new boss looks ahead with lessons learned

Lisa LaVecchia, the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corporation’s chief marketing officer, is taking over leadership of the government agency as its president and CEO on Jan. 30. She brings a considerable amount of marketing experience to the role, joining OTMPC in 2013 after serving as director of retail marketing for Indigo. Prior to that, she was director of new media and marketing for the Office of the Premier in Ontario.

Ontario Tourism’s new boss looks ahead with lessons learned

Lisa LaVecchia, the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corporation’s chief marketing officer, is taking over leadership of the government agency as its president and CEO on Jan. 30. She brings a considerable amount of marketing experience to the role, joining OTMPC in 2013 after serving as director of retail marketing for Indigo. Prior to that, she was director of new media and marketing for the Office of the Premier in Ontario.

UPDATED: Pearson expansion will benefit Halton; no word on Oakville noise issues: GTAA

Toronto Pearson International is poised to become a mega-hub airport, creating jobs and economic investments for local municipalities, says Lorrie McKee, Director of Public Affairs and Stakeholder Relations for the Greater Toronto Airports Authority . And it’s left Oakville politicians, particularly those representing wards in the north, to ask what effect it will have on the already-contentious issue of airplane noise that’s become somewhat new, and annoying, to north Oakville residents.

UPDATED: Pearson expansion will benefit Halton; no word on Oakville noise issues: GTAA

Toronto Pearson International is poised to become a mega-hub airport, creating jobs and economic investments for local municipalities, says Lorrie McKee, Director of Public Affairs and Stakeholder Relations for the Greater Toronto Airports Authority . And it’s left Oakville politicians, particularly those representing wards in the north, to ask what effect it will have on the already-contentious issue of airplane noise that’s become somewhat new, and annoying, to north Oakville residents.

Next-gen 911: CRTC braces for emergency video

It’s going to take a lot more than new regulations to allow all Canadians to send urgent, life-and-death text and video messages to emergency call centres, say advocates of so-called next-generation 911 services. Organizations, including the Canadian Interoperability Technology Interest Group, say a hearing this week by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission into expanding 911 service across the country is just the beginning of what’s needed to upgrade services to take advantage of new technologies.

Justin Trudeau’s Ontario road show takes on partisan edge

Canadians who want to meet the prime minister during his upcoming road tour are being asked to first register their personal details with Liberal MPs. OTTAWA-Canadians who want to meet Justin Trudeau during his upcoming road tour town halls are being asked to first register their personal details with Liberal MPs.

Mother Nature can’t decide which kind of winter to send us

But according to Geoff Coulson, warning preparedness meteorologist for Environment and Climate Change Canada, that was the case in December. After a mild start to December, cold air finally made an extended appearance across the province after about the 7th of the month until the days leading up to Christmas.

Updated: 6 hours agoComments (0)The worst of the storm has passed.

A Colorado low dumped up to 30 centimetres of snow on some parts of Northwestern Ontario before moving off to the east on Tuesday. “There was a massive area of precipitation with this thing; rain in southern Ontario to heavy snow in the northern part of the province,” Environment Canada meteorologist Geoff Coulson said Tuesday.

Fake celeb encounter top fake news for Medicine Hat

Way back when, this column challenged readers to get Medicine Hat on the map in 2016, nudging eyeballs toward application and nomination forms for halls of fame, committees and other enterprises of renown. The most notable, but absolutely unconfirmed mention of the Hat comes via a series of Facebook posts that portend that actor Hugh Jackman got a flat outside town.

U of T, McGill University rank in top five of North America’s…

Members of the Jewish Defense League protest a public forum on Israel apartheid featuring Jenny Peto at the University of Toronto, Tuesday January 18, 2011 in Toronto, Ont. Israeli supporters overlook the main floor of York University’s Vari Hall as pro-Israel and pro-Palestine supporters divide the space down the centre while holding countering rallies at the school, Thursday afternoon, February 12, 2009 in Toronto.

The year of the fentanyl crisis: How we got here

Marchers carried a coffin to remember friends, family and community members during a procession to mark Overdose Awareness Day in Vancouver in August. The highly potent opioid fentanyl was detected in more than 370 drug overdose deaths in British Columbia between January and October 2016.

The year of the fentanyl crisis: How we got here

Marchers carried a coffin to remember friends, family and community members during a procession to mark Overdose Awareness Day in Vancouver in August. The highly potent opioid fentanyl was detected in more than 370 drug overdose deaths in British Columbia between January and October 2016.