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SPOTTING A FLOOR CROSSER

When MP Michael Ma announced in early December that he was switching parties, pundits’ views on the floor crossing were all over the place. The only consistency expressed in the media reports was that nobody, including those within his Conservative...

RCAF wants more than 1,200 security personnel to protect F-35s, other planes

OTTAWA — The Royal Canadian Air Force wants to hire more than a thousand new security personnel over the next five years at bases across the country — just as it brings its new F-35 stealth fighter jets into service. Internal documents from spring...

Mike Hickey, a gentle giant

When he was inducted into the Concordia University Sports Hall of Fame as a Builder in 2012, the citation began: “Mike Hickey has one of the most impressive and eclectic coaching résumés of anyone in Canadian university basketball having successfully...

Les nids-de-poule déjà de retour

Les nids-de-poule font déjà leur grand retour, faisant rager de nombreux automobilistes qui doivent faire un véritable parcours du combattant en circulant dans le grand Montréal. « Ça n’a pas de sens. On pourrait plonger dedans ! » s’exclame Diane...

L’ère des élus influenceurs

Une nouvelle cohorte d’élus municipaux prend d’assaut les réseaux sociaux pour « jazzer » la politique de proximité. Micro miniature en main, elle concocte des capsules vidéo à la sauce « influenceuse » pour donner un enrobage plus convivial au pouvoir...

Kitchener's spiral garage — heritage gem or Brutalist eyesore?

Is a distinctive Kitchener parking garage with a spiralling ramp a heritage gem or a Brutalist eyesore? That was the question facing Heritage Kitchener members this week as they considered whether to pursue designation under the Ontario Heritage Act...

Les amateurs démontrent encore leur passion

Ce n’était peut-être pas un festival offensif comme plusieurs l’auraient souhaité, mais la Victoire de Montréal et les Goldeneyes de Vancouver ont tout de même offert tout un match, hier, alors que les spectateurs en redemandent. « C’était mon premier...

SPOTTING A FLOOR CROSSER

When MP Michael Ma announced in early December that he was switching parties, pundits' views on the floor crossing were all over the place. The only consistency expressed in the media reports was that nobody, including those within his Conservative...

BILLS WIN THRILLER

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Josh Allen took a pounding, doled out punishment and delivered Buffalo its first road playoff victory in more than three decades, 27-24 over Jacksonville in the AFC'S wild-card opener Sunday. With linebacker Devin Lloyd bearing...

STARS Lottery Dream Home named after local resident

STARS Lottery is back for their 33rd year with one of the grand prize dream homes named after a local resident who is alive today thanks to STARS. “The Broc James” Dream Home was built by Van Arbor Homes it is located at 684 Devonia Road West, and it...

Cool times forecast with icewine in festival spotlight

As temperatures dip below freezing, the Niagara Icewine Festival turns up the heat for two weeks in January. Starting Jan. 17 and 18, and continuing Jan. 24 and 25, NiagaraontheLake's downtown transforms into Icewine Village as local wineries offer...

Southbound Keating ramp expected to be complete by spring

Six months after the northbound off-ramp for the Keating Cross flyover opened on the Pat Bay Highway, some area residents are getting impatient for the southbound ramp. The Ministry of Transportation and Transit said in a statement that there isn’t a...

MESSY WEATHER

A vehicle splashes through a large puddle on Centennial Drive in Sudbury, Ont. on Friday January 9, 2026. The Sudbury area had been under a rainfall advisory on Thursday and Friday, and there were predictions that water would pool or pond on some city...

Petrolia hospital renovation going to tender in weeks

A multimillion-dollar renovation of the emergency and X-ray departments at Petrolia's hospital is expected to go to tender in coming weeks, a decade after planning for the project began. “We're talking about an initiative that really began in 2016,”...

Cool times forecast with icewine in festival spotlight

As temperatures dip below freezing, the Niagara Icewine Festival turns up the heat for two weeks in January. Starting Jan. 17 and 18, and continuing Jan. 24 and 25, Niagaraonthelake's downtown transforms into Icewine Village as local wineries offer...

SPOTTING A FLOOR CROSSER

When MP Michael Ma announced in early December that he was switching parties, pundits' views on the floor crossing were all over the place. The only consistency expressed in the media reports was that nobody, including those within his Conservative...

Cool times forecast with icewine in festival spotlight

As temperatures dip below freezing, the Niagara Icewine Festival turns up the heat for two weeks in January. Starting Jan. 17 and 18, and continuing Jan. 24 and 25, NiagaraontheLake's downtown transforms into Icewine Village as local wineries offer...

U.S, has yet to reach import limits to trigger milk tariffs, DFO rep says

While the U.S. calls for more Canadian dairy market access in any renegotiated Canada-u.s.-mexico trade agreement, “they haven't met the limits that are currently in place," Dairy Farmers of Ontario's Mark Hamel said Thursday at a dairy symposium in...

Freedom of information requests to RDOS double

There were more Freedom of Information applications made to the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen in 2025 than in the previous two years combined. The RDOS board of directors received a staff report on Thursday summarizing the requests...

These Hamilton businesses are feeling the love of the hit series `Heated Rivalry'

When Relay Coffee Roasters coowner Rachel Hofing booked a film shoot for a supposedly small production for her downtown Hamilton café last March, she didn't think much of it. Hofing knew the shoot was for a Canadian television series with a small...

CHINA BIRTHRATE SPUTTERS

BEIJING — Twenty-five-year-old Grace and her husband are set on staying child-free, resisting pressure from their parents and society to produce offspring, even as China strives to boost its flagging birthrate. A decade since China scrapped its...

BLOOD IN THE STREETS

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran has killed at least 538 people and even more are feared dead, activists said Sunday, while Tehran warned that the U.S. military and Israel would be “legitimate targets” if America...

All revved up

As he travelled to Formula 1 races around the world to shoot last summer's high-speed drama, F1 director Joseph Kosinski faced no shortage of challenges. Keeping his leading men, Brad Pitt and Damson Idris, safe in the driver's seat as they whirled...

WHO CANADA IS NOW

We're getting older, having fewer babies, and losing our faith.

GUTS & GLORY

The Calgary Flames had lost four straight. The Pittsburgh Penguins had won six in a row. If there was ever a game where you might have felt comfortable predicting a Flames loss, it was on Saturday afternoon. Instead, they showed up in Pittsburgh and...

WHO CANADA IS NOW

Canada has a demographics problem. Is immigration still the answer? Numbers can tell a story. Canada is home to 41.58 million people, according to the latest population estimates, and the average age was 41.7. At the time of the last census, just over...

LENDING A HELPING HAND

Rowen Rodgers, left, and Kinley Scott, two Grade 9 students from Birchwood Intermediate School in Charlottetown, make up boxes of food at the Upper Room Hospitality Ministry’s food bank on Thursday. A group of Birchwood students has been volunteering...

Recycling gets revamp

Sorting glass and cans from papers in Sault Ste. Marie recycling bins has been an easy job for decades, but it could get a bit more complicated. Ontario is overhauling its recycling system, and that means establishing new provincewide guidelines on...

Gaza man's Trent hope remains in limbo

A Palestinian student accepted to a doctoral program at Trent University in 2024 has had to defer his studies for a second time as he remains stuck in Gaza without word from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). Waseem, whose last name...

MORE CONCERNS OVER SPACES FOR AREA HOMELESS PEOPLE

Following the closure of the Co-operative Care Centre, the number of housing spaces for people experiencing homelessness has been front of mind for many people and organizations in the community. That topic was brought forward again at Tuesday's...

WELCOME TO THE WORLDS

The flags representing each of the eight countries competing in the 2026 IIHF U18 women’s world hockey championship hang above the ice at the Membertou Sport and Wellness Centre on Friday, while Team Slovakia practices below. The tournament opens today...

ART OF LAMBSCAPING

As is the case for many things in farming, solar grazing started as an experiment for Chris Moore and Lyndsey Smith. Solar grazing, sometimes called “lambscaping,” is the practice of using sheep grazing to manage vegetation under and around solar...

Three trains intended for the Northlander line are ready to go

They’ve arrived. Three Ontario Northlander train sets have arrived in Toronto and, within the next few months, will make their way north. The news comes almost 14 years after the Liberal government announced the end of the train service as a...

EYES IN THE SKY

Overhead cameras from an Alberta RCMP helicopter monitor a prolific offender as he navigates a stolen car. He’s armed. Fascinating to watch from a giant screen in K-Division’s Real-Time Operations Centre in Edmonton, it’s the ultimate Game Boy —...

RIVER VALLEY WALK

A pedestrian takes advantage of Thursday's nice weather to stroll through the river valley near Grant Notley Park. The weekend forecast calls for a high of 4 C and low of -1 C on Saturday, and high of 4 C and low of 0 C Sunday. See the extended...

HOMELESSNESS: ADVOCATES SAY FUNDING FOR EARLY INTERVENTIONS WOULD HELP

Ontario and Canada could help ease the impact of homelessness-related issues in Belleville by funding more early-intervention programs, local advocates say. Mayor Neil Ellis' Understanding Homelessness Task Force met Jan. 7 online. Guest speakers...

SHARING THE JOY OF MUSIC

Pianist Dorothy Fieldman Fraiberg set out to make chamber music more accessible to Montrealers with free concerts — an initiative that began 45 years ago and keeps on resonating, Susan Schwartz reports.

Oil made Venezuela exceptional, until it didn’t

Long before Hugo Chávez, Nicolás Maduro or Donald Trump, Venezuela believed oil would be its liberator. That myth is dead for good During his childhood in a frontier oil-drilling town amid the rain forests of eastern Venezuela in the 1960s, Miguel...

BRANTWOOD FARMS GEARING UP FOR `BIGGER AND BETTER' OPERATION THIS SPRING

A Brantford farming family that not only sells the products they grow but offers fun activities for families throughout each year, is getting ready to carry on that tradition in a new location. Tom Pate, his wife Dawn, and children, Kara and Andrew,...

De quasi-décrocheur à propriétaire d’une entreprise de construction

Pour certains, le parcours scolaire est tout sauf typique. C’est le cas d’Alex Lavoie qui est passé bien près de décrocher. Cela ne l’a toutefois pas empêché de se retrousser les manches et de devenir propriétaire de sa propre entreprise de...

MacKenzie Drugs cites Crown corp. turmoil as it removes Canada Post services

Thursday marked the final day for Canada Post services out of MacKenzie Drugs, as the local pharmacy looks to the future. While there have been Canada Post services at the pharmacy for more than 50 years, recent years have caused a strain on the...

Nos incontournables pour goûter à la magie de Madère

La randonnée est l’une des activités emblématiques de Madère, où les levadas – anciens canaux d’irrigation creusés dès le XVIe siècle pour acheminer l’eau du nord vers les terres agrricoles du sud – ont façonné un réseau exceptionnel de plus de 2000 km...

Oil made Venezuela exceptional, until it didn’t

Death toll rises amid growing unrest in Iran

Nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy reached the twoweek mark on Sunday, as activists reported a rising death toll in violence surrounding the demonstrations. With the internet down in Iran and phone lines cut off, gauging the...

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PROVINCE ANNOUNCES $1.3M FOR TIMMINS

The latest round of funding from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC) was officially announced on Friday morning with over $1.3 million dollars heading towards three local businesses, as well at the Mattagami Region Conservation...

Kelowna high-rises eyed again for short-term rentals

Hundreds of Kelowna homes could be made available to tourists again this summer if the city convinces the NDP government to modify its rules on short-term rentals. Suites in high-rise towers such as Ella, Aqua, Brooklyn, and Ellis Parc will be needed...

L’Empire du castor : une fresque théâtrale à découvrir à La Bordée

Cet hiver, La Bordée et le Nouveau Théâtre expérimental vous convient à une expérience théâtrale unique : L’Empire du castor, une coproduction inédite de La Bordée et du Nouveau Théâtre Expérimental. Cette grande fresque plonge au coeur de l’histoire...

Ruth Jones McVeigh, co- founder of long- running Mariposa Folk Festival, dead at 99

Ruth Jones McVeigh, co- founder of Canada's infl uential and venerable Mariposa Folk Festival, has died at the age of 99.

Oil made Venezuela exceptional, until it didn’t

Stanley C

The iconic Stanley Cup will be on display at the Avenir Centre Saturday in advance of the city hosting the 26th Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada celebrations. The cup visited several schools and will be on display at the Avenir Centre Saturday from 1...

Comment calmer son système nerveux, selon un psy

Se faire dire de se calmer lorsque nous sommes énervés nous rend encore plus sur les nerfs ! Donc, il serait sage d’éviter cette erreur. Si nous regardons sans déni ni désinformation l’état de notre monde en ce début de 2026, je ne vois pas comment...

Comment calmer son système nerveux, selon un psy

Si nous regardons sans déni ni désinformation l’état de notre monde en ce début de 2026, je ne vois pas comment nous pourrions ne pas ressentir de stress. Aussi, en raison des inégalités sociales, des milliers de personnes subissent des stresseurs qui...

N.B.’s dementia strategy brings hope for families

Jane Van Horne didn’t expect her family would face the dementia journey twice. The 73-year-old retired nurse, who now lives in Fredericton but is originally from Campbellton, first supported her mother as she took care of her husband – Van Horne’s...

NO COLD FEET HERE

Daylene Trudell and Sheldon Cadotte's wedding was “something to remember.” The hockey fans became the first couple married at a Windsor Spitfires game when they tied the knot at centre ice during Thursday's showdown against the Erie Otters at the WFCU...