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Family Channel closure saddens fans, including many grownups Korie Heartz grew up with the Family Channel just like her mother, who also watched the iconic station’s shows during her own childhood.

Fans sadden as beloved Canadian kids’ tv channels will shut down in the coming months.

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Co-ordinated plan needed to save 'alarmingly low' monarch butterfly population: study The iconic butterfly's population has decreased by around 80 per cent in the past two decades because of habitat destruction

tri-national strategy needed to save the iconic monarch butterflies that are migrating between Canada, US and Mexico
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Canada's EV market was already in trouble. Tariffs made it worse, Ontario workers say INGERSOLL — Bob Pulham recalls the optimism in the air when General Motors began producing electric vans in Ingersoll, Ont., in late 2022. As the first BrightDrop commercial van rolled off the line at...

#Canada’s EV market was already in trouble. Tariff made things even worse.
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Manitoba residents fleeing scorching wildfires take refuge in Niagara Falls, Ont. Some Manitoba residents who have taken refuge in Niagara Falls, Ont., after fleeing wildfires raging in their province say they’re grateful for the hospitality but worry they won’t have a home to retu...

“I miss Pukatawagan, that is our home. It feels different here”: #Manitoba residents fleeing #wildfires take refuge in Niagara Falls, #Ontario

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Students, staff in Walkerton return to school after fatal crash As a small Ontario town continues to grapple with the sudden deaths of four teenage girls and their teacher, students and staff went back to school on Monday morning to find mental health resources on...

Walkerton mourns after four schoolgirls and their teacher died in vehicle collision on Friday.

“I just wanted so badly to believe that it wasn’t real,” a student who knew all four girls and the teacher told us.

“I felt like I lost a part of myself.”

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Canada Goose shares soar as company sees 'minimal' impact from tariffs TORONTO - Canada Goose Holdings Inc. executives say tariffs are having little impact on the business, but the uncertainty they pose is great enough that the company is withholding its

Canada Goose says tariffs are having little impact on the business, but the uncertainty they pose is great enough that the company is withholding its outlook for this fiscal year.

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Justice Dennis O'Connor holds up a copy of the summary of the "Report of the Walkerton Inquiry" as he releases it in Walkerton, Ont. on Friday Jan. 18, 2002.

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In Canada's housing crisis, are modular homes a cheaper and faster solution? TORONTO — When a church in Toronto’s west end was converted into affordable housing nearly 15 years ago, the group behind the project was already thinking ahead. Andrea Adams, the executive director o...

Can factory-built modular homes be a solution to #Canada’s housing crisis?

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This pilot is honoured every year in a U.K. town. Will Canada recognize his bravery? William Stuart McMullen, a Canadian pilot officer from Ontario, is little known in his own country, but his family is calling on the Canadian government to honour a man who paid the ultimate price tho...

This pilot is honoured every year in a U.K. town. Will Canada recognize his bravery?

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Offer 'academic refugees' from U.S. a safe haven in Canada, profs urge party leaders Hundreds of professors are asking Canadian federal party leaders to provide a safe sanctuary for "academic refugees" and safeguard academic freedoms on campuses, as American universities face mounting...

American universities under attack by #Trump admin.

Hundreds of #Canadian professors are urging future govt to create safe sanctuary for “academic refugees,” fleeing the US, safeguard academic freedoms on campuses, and provide more funding to universities.

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'In a fight with one man': Trump's tariffs have autoworkers in Oshawa, Ont., on edge Autoworkers in Oshawa say the impact of U-S President Donald Trump's tariffs is a threat far greater than anything else they have experienced.

For more than a century, Oshawa has been the city of autoworkers.

The automotive museum in the downtown core, murals depicting locally made vehicles & the city’s beloved hockey team are all symbols of that glorious — and often treacherous — history.

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Mayors of border cities call on Ottawa for funding, support as tariff war continues Mayors of several Canadian border cities and towns are calling for support from the federal government as the tariff war with the United States starts to hurt their communities, warning of dire econom...

"We're feeling the pain and we're on the front line. That's just the reality of being a border city," he said. "There are many joys to being a border city, but there's also a lot of pain on occasion when issues beyond our control happen."

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'He has nothing left," says brother of man who lost wife and kids in Oshawa fire Josef Bresca had everything he wanted in life – a wife and two children he loved in a happy home, his brother said. Then a tragedy hit and in the blink of an eye, he lost it all.

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He had everything he wanted in life – a wife and two children he loved in a happy home.

Then a tragedy hit and in the blink of an eye, he lost it all.

His wife and their two daughters died after their house caught fire in Oshawa Wednesday.

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So Donald Trump wants more border security? Here's how the RCMP is ramping up efforts Smith now dons a uniform and body armour as he drives a marked RCMP vehicle to help patrol roughly 800 kilometres of Ontario's border with the United States

So Donald Trump wants more border security? Here's how the RCMP is ramping up efforts

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'We stand with Canada': Americans who live here show solidarity amid Trump's threats Canadians have responded with a mix of anger, frustration and national pride – feelings understood and shared by some Americans who now call this country their home.

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After seven years of PC representation, can Liberals turn Eglinton-Lawrence red? When Vince Gasparro’s daughter suddenly fell ill last year, the “total chaos” he witnessed in the emergency department of a Toronto hospital spurred his desire to enter electoral politics.

After seven years of PC representation, can Liberals turn Eglinton-Lawrence red?

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City of Toronto asks builder of tiny homeless shelters to remove them from park The City of Toronto has asked Tiny Tiny Homes to remove five small shelters from a downtown park, saying they pose safety risks.

A refugee has been mostly homeless after he moved to Canada in 2023.

On Jan 15 — the day his asylum case was accepted — he received the key to a portable tiny home in a park.

Now the City of #Toronto wants his and four other tiny homes removed from the park.

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After 40 years in politics, Mississauga’s newest mayor says she’s not done yet MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - When Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish resigned from a regional police board, citing the need to be openly critical of the largest budget increase in the force's history,

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A “purposeful, forceful but reasonable, immediate response” is ready if Trump imposes tariffs, PM Trudeau says.

How an Ontario town's refusal to declare Pride month led to a years-long legal battle

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Is Donald Trump kidding? Americans in Canada react to tariff, annexation threats While Donald Trump's comments on tariffs and Canada becoming 'the 51st state' have drawn anger and fear among Canadians, reaction from Americans who live, study or work in Canada has been mixed, and i...

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'Enough is enough': Third overnight shooting at Toronto Jewish school draws outrage TORONTO — A Jewish girls' school in Toronto's north end was the target of an overnight shooting for the third time in less than a year, police confirmed Friday, drawing widespread condemnation.

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'You have to hope,' say postal workers on Toronto picket line as Ottawa moves to end strike | CBC News Dozens of Canada Post workers gathered outside a delivery centre in east Toronto reacted with a mixture of frustration, disappointment and hope on Friday morning as Ottawa announced it was moving to e...

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A Nobel Prize-powered gift from Geoffrey Hinton is boosting a Canadian water charity The Canadian winner of this year's Nobel Prize in physics is pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars from his winnings into a small Ontario-based organization.

The Canadian winner of this year's Nobel Prize in physics is pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars from his winnings into a small Ontario-based organization which is supporting Indigenous Peoples in accessing fresh water.

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Colleges and universities face job cuts, deficits amid international student cap

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