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Global warming cooks up 'a different world' over 3 decades
Global warming cooks up 'a different world' over 3 decades
Report details child poverty in MPs ridings
In Bill Morneau's riding, 40 per cent of children live in poverty, report says
Meghan Markle's dad on missing the wedding, Prince Harry and Donald Trump
Meghan Markle's father said that Prince Harry told him to give Donald Trump a chance and suggested that he was open about Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.
Magna plans electric vehicle joint ventures
Auto parts firm Magna plans electric vehicle joint ventures with Chinese company
St. Joseph’s won’t say how many forensic patients escape
As the search for a missing patient stretched into its third day, St. Joseph’s Healthcare refused to reveal how many others have escaped.
Phil Mickelson's wife says 'he's a good man who had a bad moment' after Saturday snap at U.S. Open
After completing his final round Sunday at the U.S. Open - one day after shocking the golf world by hitting his ball on the 13th green while it was still rolling after an initial putt - Phil Mickelson had little to say to media members. However, his wife offered some thoughts, saying, "He's a good man who had a bad moment."
In the midst of a spring scorcher, councillor thinks about a winter park
Ward 8 Coun. Terry Whitehead, despite recent scorcher weather, is thinking winter. A winter wonderland, to be exact, to be included as part of a huge new park on the Mountain.
Employers need to be transparent in hiring process
Peter was offered a job as an independent contractor with a consulting company that was to last six months. The consulting company was providing technical services to a large retailer. In its agreement with the retailer, the consulting company understood that it was not to send any consultant, like Peter, who had a criminal record, except with the retailer’s consent.
He told his friends his vest was stab-proof and offered to demonstrate. It wasn't
Five days after his 22nd birthday, Jordan Easton was celebrating with friends at a house in northeast England when he began talking about the vest he was wearing. It was stab-proof, Easton allegedly announced. He offered a demonstration.
Are suicides really preventable?
Suicide is now the 10th leading cause of death in this country, and yet we still talk about it in whispers — if we talk about it at all.
Strong quake near Osaka, Japan, kills 3, knocks over walls
Residents in western Japan were cleaning up debris Monday after a powerful earthquake hit the area around Osaka, the country's second-largest city of commerce, killing three people and injuring hundreds while knocking over walls and setting off fires.
'It was either me or the cat': Georgia woman kills rabid bobcat with her bare hands
DeDe Phillips grew up in the country, and she knew all about bobcats — including how they kill.
So, how are the burgers at IHOb, anyway?
As you probably know by now — especially because it was all over Twitter last week — IHOP changed its name this week to "IHOb," a.k.a. International House of Burgers.
Metrolinx board member described hydrogen train plan as ‘madness’
Hydrogen project “must be taken seriously for the folly it represents,” wrote Hitachi Power Systems Canada chief executive Howard Shearer
Why voters were attracted to Doug Ford
It turns out this election was not about who had the best vision for the province, nor was it about which leader was the most premier-like, writes Jaime Watt. This election was not about the macro; it was all about the micro.
Armed civilian kills gunman, stops shooting spree U.S. Walmart
A gunman who opened fire inside a Tumwater, Washington, Walmart and injured at least two people during carjacking attempts was fatally shot by one of two armed civilians confronting him Sunday evening, according to police.
Melania Trump takes a brave stand against her husband's policies
Melania Trump, the most reticent first lady since Pat Nixon, has done an admirable thing. She has lent her voice to those who oppose the Trump administration's heinous policy of separating migrant children from their parents.
Obituary: Professor helped found Department of Religious Studies at McMaster
Louis Greenspan taught hundreds of students during 40-year career at university
Father’s Day is ‘brutal’ for family of murdered boxer as killer gets day passes
Charles Gagne, the man who murdered boxer Eddie Melo, has been given permission to do community service work outside prison.
Heat warning issued for Hamilton area
Daytime temperatures expected to feel like 40 with little nighttime relief
Hamilton police officer charged with sexual assault
Const. Adam Martini, 34, has been with the service for four months.
Should Hamilton allow “monster” marijuana greenhouses?
City bureaucrats are floating the idea of allowing rural pot-growing greenhouses that are bigger than Lime Ridge mall.
Pride Hamilton festival a success despite short protest by ‘evangelists’
“A lot of people didn’t even know they (the protesters) were here,” said Pride Hamilton chair Sean Cullen.
Burlington family lauds boy’s bravery after tree falls on his sister
When Carson Jones saw a tree fall on his younger sister during the May 4 windstorm, he didn’t panic — he sprang into action, stayed calm and helped his mom handle the emergency.
Police arrest second suspect in east Hamilton street racing fatality
Woman, 25, backing out of driveway, struck and killed
A look at child poverty rates in MPs ridings
A look at the federal ridings with the highest, and lowest child poverty rates
In Bill Morneau’s riding, 40 per cent of children live in poverty: report
Four in every 10 children residing in Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s downtown Toronto riding live in poverty, one of the highest rates identified in a new report tracking child poverty rates across all 338 federal ridings.
Man charged after Toronto woman found dead
Brampton man charged with second-degree murder in death of woman found in apartment
Province rejects city’s request to redraw Hamilton Conservation Area boundaries
The Ontario government has rejected Hamilton’s request to allow the Hamilton Conservation Authority to take over the Binbrook Conservation area, which is under the jurisdiction of the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority.
Featured photos: FLYFEST at Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
Students not hopeful York U strike will end soon
York University students not optimistic strike will end any time soon
Signpost: Canada Day Military Tattoo
Also, police swap uniforms for aprons and FLO plugs in at Lime Ridge
Signpost:
Local police will swap uniforms for grilling aprons at a barbecue to raise funds for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Hamilton on Saturday, June 23, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Eastgate Square, 75 Centennial Parkway N., outside the mall doors at the north entrance beside Fortinos. Proceeds will help local families in need to purchase clothing and back-to-school supplies when school starts in September.
Brampton man charged with second-degree murder in death of woman found in apartment
A man charged in the death of a 28-year-old Toronto woman had just met and moved in with her three weeks before she was found suffering from obvious signs of trauma inside their fifth-floor apartment, Toronto police said.
Markham man charged in playground shooting that injured two young girls
A 21-year-old man from Markham has been charged with attempted murder a day after two young sisters were injured in a shooting at a Toronto playground.
York University students not optimistic strike will end any time soon
York University students aren’t feeling hopeful that they’ll be back in class soon, even after some of the school’s striking contract workers voted to accept the university’s latest offer.
Brampton man charged with second-degree murder
Brampton man charged with second-degree murder in death of woman found in apartment
Pay-what-you-can grocery opens in Toronto, but experts say model can be hit-or-miss
There’s a reason you don’t often see a pay-what-you-can grocery store, say marketing experts intrigued by a Toronto venture billed as the first of its kind.
How computer data helped police to investigate Quebec City’s mosque shooter
The criminal proceedings against Quebec City’s mosque shooter provided a glimpse into how police use computers to extract information about a suspect, even if that data has been erased.
‘A lot to offer’: Plans for at least one Arctic university in the works
The world’s only northern nation without some form of Arctic university may soon have three of them.
Hamilton trustees balk at new high school name
The search for a name for the new public high school being built at Scott Park continues, after the area’s trustee couldn’t get enough support for one favoured by an advisory committee.
Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas
Inside an old warehouse in south Texas, hundreds of children wait away from their parents in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets.
Hamilton board offers to stretch city payments on closed schools
Hamilton’s public school board is offering to make it easier for the city to buy closed schools by allowing it to pay in interest-free instalments rather than in a lump sum.
Sea convoy reaches Spain as migration debate roils Europe
An aid group’s ship and two Italian military vessels docked Sunday at the Spanish port of Valencia, ending a weeklong ordeal for hundreds of people who were rescued from the Mediterranean Sea only to become pawns in a European political fight.
Gunfire erupts at New Jersey arts festival, 22 wounded
33-year-old suspect was killed, apparently by police. A second suspect is in custody.
Ramifications of a trade war: an expert look at the numbers for Canada
A new analysis of escalating trade disputes involving the United States warns that a deterioration into an all-out global trade war would knock North America’s economies into recession.
Scientist deliberately spill oil to learn
Deliberate spill: study launched to test crude and bitumen impact on lake life
Quebec's longest-serving legislature member to retire
Quebec's longest-serving legislature member blames PQ for decline of sovereignty
Police charge man after shots fired in Toronto
Oakville man facing 10 charges after shots fired in downtown Toronto
‘I can’t go without my son,’ a mother pleaded as she was deported to Guatemala
Authorities say parents are not supposed to be deported from the U.S. without their children. But immigration lawyers say that has happened in several cases.
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