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1 week ago | 
thespec.com | Anastasia Blosser
The cold open on last night’s “Saturday Night Live” poked fun at phone calls between Liberal Leader Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump among other tariff-related jokes. Trump interrupts Jesus’s cleansing of the temple to talk Easter pic.twitter.com/6kpY0xZQre— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) April 13, 2025The caricature of the President of the United States — portrayed by James Austin Johnson — defended Trump’s tariffs before referencing the real Trump’s calls with Carney.
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1 week ago | 
thespec.com | Anastasia Blosser
Could there be anything more Canadian than Chris Hadfield singing a Tragically Hip song at a Canuck-themed bar? Videos posted to social media showed the astronaut, pilot, musician and author performing “Bobcaygeon” at Grizzly Bar on Thursday night.
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2 weeks ago | 
thespec.com | Anastasia Blosser
If you’ve ever forgotten something in the backseat of an Uber, you’re not alone. From gold teeth to a piano to a cat sample urine example, people in Toronto have left behind some weird and wild items during their rides. This is all part of Uber’s ninth Lost & Found index, an annual recap on all things forgotten in Uber vehicles. Perhaps unsurprisingly, everyday items like phones, wallets, bags or keys were some of the mostly commonly forgotten items.
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2 weeks ago | 
wellandtribune.ca | Anastasia Blosser
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2 weeks ago | 
thespec.com | Kristjan Lautens |Anastasia Blosser
All lanes of the southbound Don Valley Parkway have reopened after a six-vehicle collision shut down the roadway and sent a man to hospital early Tuesday morning. The collision happened near Eastern Avenue just before 5:30 a.m., Toronto police said in a post to social media. A man was rushed to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries, paramedics said, adding that they do not believe anybody else was hurt.
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2 weeks ago | 
thespec.com | Anastasia Blosser |Alex Ballingall
A 31-year-old Ottawa man is facing multiple charges after allegedly entering Parliament Hill’s East Block on Saturday and making threats prompting an eight-hour lockdown in the area. The man entered the East Block security screening area and “began making threats to the safety of those inside,” police said in a news release Sunday morning. Officers said he was “isolated” to the area, adding police evacuated the building and surrounding area.
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3 weeks ago | 
yorkregion.com | Aliyah Marko |Kristjan Lautens |Anastasia Blosser
When Christopher Martins drove around his neighbourhood in the north end of Barrie on Sunday morning, he felt like he had “stepped into a war zone.” Decades-old trees were crushed by ice in nearly every yard, sheds and fences were damaged and branches littered the ground. Already a Subscriber? Sign in “It’s very, very scary. I’ve been living in Barrie for almost eight years, and I’ve never seen a winter like this,” said Martins.
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3 weeks ago | 
simcoe.com | Aliyah Marko |Kristjan Lautens |Anastasia Blosser
When Christopher Martins drove around his neighbourhood in the north end of Barrie on Sunday morning, he felt like he had “stepped into a war zone.” Decades-old trees were crushed by ice in nearly every yard, sheds and fences were damaged and branches littered the ground. “It’s very, very scary. I’ve been living in Barrie for almost eight years, and I’ve never seen a winter like this,” said Martins.
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3 weeks ago | 
thespec.com | Aliyah Marko |Kristjan Lautens |Anastasia Blosser
When Christopher Martins drove around his neighbourhood in the north end of Barrie on Sunday morning, he felt like he had “stepped into a war zone.” Decades-old trees were crushed by ice in nearly every yard, sheds and fences were damaged and branches littered the ground. “It’s very, very scary. I’ve been living in Barrie for almost eight years, and I’ve never seen a winter like this,” said Martins.
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4 weeks ago | 
thespec.com | Anastasia Blosser
It appears Baltimore Orioles outfielder Colton Cowser’s arm is definitely ready for the season. In a video shared on X user @HiMyNameIsJC_, the 25-year-old Cowser made an impressive throw up to one of the Toronto Marriott City Centre Hotel’s rooms facing the Rogers Centre’s outfield on Wednesday ahead of Thursday’s season opener against the Blue Jays.
