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2 weeks ago | 
stcatharinesstandard.ca | Ilyas Hussein |Abby O’Brien
When 15-year-old Frank Damian parted ways with his best friend ahead of the long weekend, he never imagined it would be the last time he’d hear his voice. “I still can’t believe it,” Damian told the Star from the grounds of an East York Catholic school on Tuesday afternoon.
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3 weeks ago | 
thespec.com | Ilyas Hussein |Marisa Coulton
A massive crowd of fans dressed in white and blue clustered together in Maple Leaf Square outside Scotiabank Arena, waiting for the puck drop at 8 p.m. They shouted, waved towels, shook noisemakers. They were grinning — they believed the Leafs could make it happen and force a Game 7 back here on Sunday night. After a scoreless first and second period, the optimism turned to nerves.
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3 weeks ago | 
thespec.com | Ilyas Hussein
It started with the team. After every win, a Maple Leafs player would hoist a WWE-style belt, passed from one to the next. It was a symbol of grit. A sign of effort. A badge of honour. But this playoff run, the tradition has spilled into the stands. Dubbed the “Passion Belt” online, the Leafs introduced the replica championship strap for fans before the playoffs began.
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3 weeks ago | 
thespec.com | Ilyas Hussein
One vote. On election night, April 28, unofficial results showed Liberal Tatiana Auguste defeating Bloc incumbent Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné by 35 votes. But after a required postelection validation process, Sinclair-Desgagné took the lead by 44 votes — triggering an automatic judicial recount due to the narrow margin. The recount process wrapped up on May 10, confirming Auguste as the winner.
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3 weeks ago | 
wellandtribune.ca | Ilyas Hussein
Any bathroom harbours millions of bacteria in every passing moment. They thrive in the warm, moist folds of a shower curtain left after a morning or nightly rinse. They breed in the soap-scummed residue from handwashing in the sink. And they creep across the door handle, rapidly reproducing to survive for days.
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3 weeks ago | 
thespec.com | Ilyas Hussein
Any bathroom harbours millions of bacteria in every passing moment. They thrive in the warm, moist folds of a shower curtain left after a morning or nightly rinse. They breed in the soap-scummed residue from handwashing in the sink. And they creep across the door handle, rapidly reproducing to survive for days.
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1 month ago | 
thespec.com | Ilyas Hussein
A new documentary is coming to Netflix this summer chronicling Ford’s rise as Toronto mayor and the scandals that surfaced during his time in office. Directed by Shianne Brown, “Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem” will arrive on June 17, the second of the anthology series exploring events that dominated headlines worldwide. “Widely dismissed as a joke by other politicians and the media, he defies critics with a shocking victory,” the film’s summary reads.
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1 month ago | 
therecord.com | Ilyas Hussein
As Canadian travel to the U.S. plummets in recent months, Calgary-based airline WestJet is removing more flights across the border. The airline is suspending flights to Austin from Vancouver until October, and is halting trips to other U.S. destinations — including Orlando, Los Angeles and Chicago — at different times this summer. Instead, WestJet is adding more flights within Canada, as the airline says it has seen an increase in demand for domestic travel.
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1 month ago | 
thespec.com | Ilyas Hussein
Instead of leaving Monday night’s playoff game to the cheers of Maple Leafs fans, goaltender Anthony Stolarz was stretchered out after vomiting on the bench — the result of a suspected concussion experts say may have gone unnoticed for more than a period. Stolarz took a hard wrist shot to the head early in the first period that knocked his mask off, but remained in the game.
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1 month ago | 
thespec.com | Anastasia Blosser |Ilyas Hussein
A six-year-old boy has died after falling from a 10th floor highrise balcony in North York on Thursday. Toronto police said they responded to the call for a child who had fallen in the Jane Street and Grandravine Drive area around 4:25 p.m. Police said he was rushed to hospital with critical injuries and later succumbed to them. The child, Sohaib Hassan, was a Grade 1 student at Calico Public School.
