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2 days ago | 
castanet.net | Catherine Morrison |Alessia Passafiume |David Baxter |Sara Parks
Toronto police say they have arrested 10 people in connection with a string of violent incidents, including three suspects in the mass shooting at a Scarborough pub in March that injured 12 people. Investigators are still looking for one more suspect and say they have laid a total of 203 charges, including 24 counts of attempted murder. The mass shooting at the Piper Arms pub near the Scarborough Town Centre on March 7 left 12 people injured, with nine of them wounded by bullets.
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6 days ago | 
castanet.net | Rob Gibson |Cassidy McMackon |Catherine Morrison |Tara Deschamps
A month after Ontario's government extended strong mayor powers to a swath of new municipalities, some leaders are promising never to use the measures — but a chorus of small-town councillors warn that local democracy is under threat. As of May 1, another 169 mayors in the province can now veto bylaws, pass new ones with just one-third of council in favour and hire or fire municipal department heads unilaterally.
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2 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Christopher Reynolds |Sarah Ritchie |Catherine Morrison
Alberta's public safety minister says provincial and federal funding will create six teams of urban wildfire crews across the province. Mike Ellis says having six more teams means Alberta will have eight crews with specialized training to respond to fires threatening communities. He says the teams will be based in municipal fire departments and include firefighters with both structural and wildland fire training.
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2 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Sarah Ritchie |Catherine Morrison |Brittany Hobson |Allison Jones
The Canadian Press - | Story: 552067A senior Environment Canada meteorologist says that as the Atlantic hurricane season is about to start, experts are predicting another active year. But Bob Robichaud at the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Halifax says the impact on Canada is impossible to forecast because there's no telling where these tropical storms will go once they form over the ocean.
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2 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Sarah Ritchie |Catherine Morrison |Brittany Hobson |Allison Jones
Texts sent by a former member of Canada's world junior hockey team cannot currently be admitted at the sexual assault trial of five of his ex-teammates, an Ontario judge ruled Friday, prompting prosecutors to seek a different route to introduce the messages as evidence. Brett Howden faced questions Thursday in a voir dire — essentially a trial within a trial — over a text conversation he had with another then-teammate, Taylor Raddysh, on June 26, 2018.
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2 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Sarah Ritchie |Catherine Morrison |Brittany Hobson |Allison Jones
At least six members of Parliament are asking their colleagues to support their bid to become the next Speaker of the House of Commons, including the last man to hold that job, Greg Fergus. Former deputy Speaker Chris d'Entremont and fellow Conservative MP Tom Kmiec have also sent emails to MPs asking for their support.
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2 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Catherine Morrison |Brittany Hobson |Allison Jones |Craig Lord
Hundreds of Canadians could potentially be caught up in the fight between President Donald Trump and prestigious Harvard University over international student enrollment. The school did not immediately have a current count of Canadians studying there, but numbers on its website from 2022 show there were 686 enrolled at that time.
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2 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Catherine Morrison |Brittany Hobson |Allison Jones |Craig Lord
Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press - | Story: 552034The Canada Revenue Agency is cutting up to 280 permanent employees in response to fiscal constraints. The workforce changes will impact branches across the CRA but the reductions will mainly impact employees in the National Capital Region. Commissioner Bob Hamilton and deputy commissioner Jean-François Fortin say in a message to staff today that executive positions are also being impacted by the reductions.
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2 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Brittany Hobson |Catherine Morrison |Allison Jones |Craig Lord
Cottage owners and disaster prevention experts in Manitoba are urging governments to develop comprehensive wildfire management plans after a pair of devastating wildfires. Close to 1,000 people were forced from their homes last week as a wildfire near the Rural Municipality of Lac du Bonnet, spurred by dry, hot and windy conditions, burned nearby. The quick-moving fire, which is currently being held, destroyed 28 homes and cottages and left two people dead.
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2 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Brittany Hobson |Catherine Morrison |Allison Jones |Craig Lord
RCMP and local police say security planning is well underway for next month's G7 summit in Alberta. Officials told The Canadian Press they're expecting protesters and are taking steps to deal with new technological threats, such as the weaponization of drones. David Hall, Alberta RCMP superintendent and event security director for the G7 Integrated Safety and Security Group, told The Canadian Press the G7 is "the largest domestic security operation" a country can take on.
