BC Wildfire officials are reminding residents to leave if they are under an evacuation order and not to stay behind. This message comes after the BC Wildfire Service says a man refused to evacuate his home near Chasm on Tuesday. They say hours after he defied the order, the fire was surrounding his property. He…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto police are investigating after they say two children were struck by a vehicle in North York just after 4 p.m. Thursday. Toronto paramedics tell Global News they transported both children to hospital. One had serious, non-life threatening injuries and the other had minor injuries. Police say…
It seems as if the world is afire this summer. But even as wildfires in Europe and North America grow more extreme, key worldwide burning statistics are at a record low largely because Africa and Asia are controlling fire more. Experts say these seemingly opposite trends are happening at the same time because of what humanity is…
Two weeks into their strike, emergency dispatch workers across Nova Scotia are calling on their employer to return to the bargaining table. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) Local 015 represents the dispatchers who answer 911 medical calls and dispatch ground and air ambulances. The workers, who went on strike July 17, held a…
Warning: This story contains discussion of suicide and the deaths of children. Discretion is advised. Quebec’s youth protection system is facing renewed scrutiny after reports of the deaths of three children connected to Montreal’s Batshaw Youth and Family Centres prompted opposition criticism and led Santé Québec to request an independent examination of youth services in Montreal’s West Island….
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto’s annual celebration of African music and culture will not take place this year, with organizers blaming the City of Toronto for a slow response time on new capacity restrictions at Woodbine Park. Afrofest was preparing to celebrate its 38th year of festivities, but said communication with…
The Ontario government says the wildfire situation is currently moving in a “reassuring direction” with 80 fires extinguished in the past two weeks. According to the province, 159 fires are still raging across northern Ontario, with 30 burning out of control. Officials said that cooler temperatures and precipitation have helped, but that could soon change….
Canada’s workers are increasingly using generative artificial intelligence at work, but the scale of it depends on which field they are employed in, Statistics Canada said in a report released Thursday. In March, just over one in three (35.9 per cent) of workers said they had used generative AI tools as part of their main…
A first-of-its-kind U.S. study suggests invasive mold infections may be an underappreciated — and potentially deadly — threat. The researchers detected about 450 cases in Atlanta-area hospitals over five years. About a third of the patients died in the hospital. The findings, published this week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), come…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto police are set to provide an update Thursday morning on a nearly two-decade-old homicide. Det. Sgt. Stephen Smith is scheduled to speak to reporters on the investigation into Patrick Santos’s death. Santos, 21, was killed on Sept. 17, 2006. The update is scheduled to begin at…
