North-end boys talk about getting hitched, writes Jeff Mahoney

McMaster University social work professor is analyzing data gathered through new anti-racism centre to get a clearer view of the local landscape.

In a credible report, Pope Francis says heaven exists but hell does not, writes Gwynne Dyer

Thestar.com will strengthen digital presence in cities served by Metro papers.

After much fanfare, the Chinese space station, Tiangong 1, finally plunged through the Earth's atmosphere somewhere over the southern Pacific Ocean at 5:16 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday. It burst into flames and tiny pieces as it made its long-anticipated descent, the Joint Force Space Component Command said in a news release posted on Twitter.

SIU probing death of man after fall from 3rd floor apartment in Thunder Bay

The agreement leaves the Stelco legacy pension plans for union and non-union employees 85 per cent funded

Christine Elliott seeking Ontario Tory nomination for Newmarket-Aurora

Newly-minted Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford will be in Hamilton Tuesday for Rally for a Better Ontario. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. at Carmen’s Banquet Centre, 1520 Stone Church Rd. E. Ford took the reins of the PC party in early March — a few months ahead of the June 7 election.

A story April 2 with the headline “What did you do in the war, Daddy?” gave an incorrect location for the second book signing, on May 6. It should have read A Different Drummer Books and not Indigo, Burlington. The Spectator regrets the error.

Activities are being held on Saturdays throughout April to mark the month

One woman dead, three people seriously injured following five-car collision

— A beach party broke out Monday as the Maple Leaf was raised at the athletes villages at the Commonwealth Games.

OPP are investigating if the tractor trailer was cut off, Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said

The suspect was airlifted to hospital after police closed down Highway 401 to land an Ornge air ambulance.

— Georgette LeBlanc looks around the parliamentary library in the Centre Block and admits she was last in the building when she was in high school.

A study by Ontario researchers suggests real-time monitoring technology at water treatment plants on reserves could significantly reduce the number of drinking-water advisories issued for First Nations across the country.

Ethical eating debate arises after vegan protesters target Toronto restaurant

— Medical marijuana patients are bracing for an uphill battle in their bid to convince the federal government to exempt medicinal cannabis from excise taxes.

Wind turbine collapsed in January due to single faulty blade: energy company

OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said it could be a couple of hours before the scene is cleared

The threshold that Jim Gow and his bride Helen crossed on their wedding day back in 1948 was not the entranceway into a new home (that came later), but the doorspace into a Borden’s milk wagon.

They’re hidden in plain sight along country roads in Virgil or Vineland, St. Davids or Beamsville.

Hamilton East-Stoney Creek NDP MPP Paul Miller’s private member’s Bill 6 keeps dying, but the former steelworker keeps resurrecting it in the Ontario Legislature.

How will Canada's national public alert system work? An explainer

— Israel’s military rejected new allegations Monday of unlawful use of force against unarmed Palestinians during mass protests in Gaza last week, as the Palestinian death toll rose to 18.

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, prominent anti-apartheid activist and the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, has died in hospital after a long illness. She was 81.

Social worker’s role will be to listen to people’s experiences of racism and advise them on where to turn for help

Information from the SUV’s software shows the vehicle was stopped before it sped off a rocky cliff. Five of the family members were found dead and three more are still missing.

— The Ontario government is pushing back against New York State’s Buy American law by limiting public sector procurement with suppliers in that state.

The spring that hasn't sprung: Prairie cold snap could last through April

— A 13-year-old boy was miraculously rescued Monday after falling into a river of sewage in Los Angeles, getting swept away and spending more than 12 hours in the toxic environment of the city’s mazelike underground pipeline system.

Transcontinental Inc. is taking a big leap in its strategic shift toward flexible packaging with the company’s largest ever deal that would diminish the role of commercial printing that has been the cornerstone of the company since its founding 42 years ago.

To see what it is like inside stores where sensors and artificial intelligence have replaced cashiers, shoppers have to trek to Amazon Go, the internet retailer’s experimental convenience shop in downtown Seattle.

— Syrian state media said Monday that the largest rebel group in the suburbs of Damascus has begun evacuating its last stronghold after seven years of war, but the rebels refused to say whether they had surrendered, and it was unclear who was on board a dozen buses seen leaving the town.

Stock markets take a dive in first trading of Q2, Toronto index down 130 points

— Most scientists have wrapped up their work scanning waters off the U.S. north eastern coast for endangered North Atlantic right whales, capping off a dismal season that has seen an unprecedented number of deaths and no new calves added to the plummeting population.

— Ethan Couch, who as a 16-year-old driver drunkenly struck and killed four pedestrians but dodged prison after suggesting at trial that his irresponsibility was a result of his entitled upbringing, walked free Monday after serving almost two years in a Texas jail on a probation violation.

A Mississauga woman is hoping the video of a car thief who boldly walking up her driveway and stealing her father’s van will help catch him.

Filipino fast food chain Jollibee expands in Canada with Toronto opening

One woman dead, three people seriously injured following five-car collision

The crash took place just before 3:30 p.m.

Grimsby Auxiliary Marine Rescue Unit (GAMRU) is closing in on its goal of adding a new rescue boat to its fleet.

A Fort McMurray man is crediting the wildfire that devastated his Alberta city with saving his life by motivating him to lose more than half his body weight.

Canada could resettle some African asylum seekers rejected by Israel

— Israel on Monday cancelled the planned expulsions of tens of thousands of African migrants, saying it reached a deal with the United Nations to resettle half of them in Western nations and allow the rest to remain in the country.

Police, firefighters help four people off unstable ice on frozen Rice Lake

— Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has won a second, four-year term in office, with more than 97 per cent of the vote in last week’s election, according to official results announced Monday by the election commission, which put turnout at 41.05 per cent.

Man says Fort McMurray wildfire saved his life by forcing weight loss

— China raised import duties on a $3 billion list of U.S. pork, apples and other products Monday in an escalating dispute with Washington over trade and industrial policy.