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• NHL believes all 7 Canadian teams can start season playing out of home arenas

  24-12-2020 23:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  The league previously released its schedule on Wednesday, with each team playing 56 games -- down from the usual 82.
  
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• Sketch shows age progression of missing Kristofer Couture

  27-01-2021 00:47 via globalnews.ca
  
  An Edmonton mother whose son vanished in B.C. two years ago is getting the gift of hope on the anniversary of his disappearance.
  
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• Court challenge to halt provincial demolition of Toronto heritage site faces uphill legal battle

  27-01-2021 00:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Ontario government may have temporarily paused the demolition on several heritage buildings in downtown Toronto, but a challenge to stop the work won’t be easy. Matthew Bingley looks into the powers of minister’s zoning orders and why a court challenge may not be enough to save the heritage buildings.
  
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• GTA family finds beloved Honda nearly 20 years after selling

  27-01-2021 00:21 via globalnews.ca
  
  A GTA family has been on the hunt to find a Honda CRX SI that once belonged to Anthony Pedatella. The husband and father died when he was 36 from liver cancer. On the 10-year anniversary of his passing, his family has been holding out hope they could locate the car and potentially buy it...
  
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• Coronavirus: Doug Ford doubles down on mandatory vaccines for international travellers

  27-01-2021 00:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on the federal government to implement mandatory COVID-19 testing for incoming international travellers. Shallima Maharaj reports.
  
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• Toronto forensic artist gifts age-progression sketch to mother of missing B.C. man

  27-01-2021 00:15 via globalnews.ca
  
  Twenty-five-year-old Kristofer Shawn Couture last made contact with his family in January, 2019, but hasn’t been seen or heard from since.
  
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• Coronavirus: Doctors call Ford government’s long-term care home approach ‘reactionary at best’

  27-01-2021 00:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  “Doctors for Justice in Long-Term Care” says the lack of transparency and coordinated Ontario government oversight has resulted in “piecemeal interventions” that are too late or even non-existent as more people continue to die of COVID-19. Morganne Campbell reports.
  
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• Coronavirus: Nearly 100 suspected cases of U.K. variant found in Barrie long-term care home

  27-01-2021 00:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  Officials say 97 new cases of COVID-19 have been discovered at a Barrie long-term care home and are suspected to be the U.K. variant. Miranda Anthistle reports.
  
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• Coronavirus: Working out around Ontario’s rules

  27-01-2021 00:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  Gyms and fitness studios in Ontario remain closed because of the province’s emergency order aimed at curtailing the spread of COVID-19 But as Seán O’Shea reports, at least one Toronto trainer is accepting clients in a garage even though the City of Toronto says that is not permitted.
  
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• 2 women dead after 4-vehicle crash on QEW in Burlington

  26-01-2021 23:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  Catherine McDonald was in Burlington where the OPP shut down the highway for more than 10 hours in order to investigate the crash.
  
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• Toronto tops pest control company’s list of worst Canadian cities for bed bugs

  26-01-2021 23:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  The annual list said Toronto is followed by Sudbury and Oshawa.
  
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• GTA COVID-19 survivor updates recovery, months after hospitalization

  26-01-2021 22:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  One of the first severe cases of COVID-19 in the Toronto area was a 51-year-old man who was put on a ventilator for weeks. Doctors did not know if he would make it. Caryn Lieberman met with Mario Castillo in rehab last summer and she went back to check in on him now that he’s...
  
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• Ontario civil servant ‘betrayed’ family with alleged $11 million COVID-19 relief fraud: docs

  26-01-2021 20:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  In sworn affidavits, the wife of Sanjay Madan and their two adult sons disavow any knowledge of his alleged scheme, which is now the subject of an unproven civil action.
  
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• 99 people mostly linked to Barrie, Ont., nursing home outbreak test positive for COVID-19 variant

  26-01-2021 20:40 via globalnews.ca
  
  The second portion of the two-part test is still underway to determine the exact COVID-19 variant, according to Ontario's Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit.
  
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• Gretzky memorabilia among items from museum in Niagara Falls up for auction

  26-01-2021 20:08 via globalnews.ca
  
  A jersey, puck and stick signed by hockey legend Wayne Gretzky are among Ontario museum items up for auction.
  
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• Coronavirus: Ford says Trudeau, feds need to be ‘fighting’ for COVID-19 vaccines

  26-01-2021 20:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the federal government should be “fighting for our vaccines for Canada,” adding that it’s “the single number one job right now.” Ford said Monday during a briefing that the federal government notified them on Friday that Ontario would receive no Pfizer COVID-19...
  
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• Coronavirus: Ford reiterates call for mandatory COVID-19 tests for all air travellers

  26-01-2021 20:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  Ontario Premier Doug Ford spoke from Toronto Pearson International Airport Tuesday, calling on the federal government for mandatory COVID-19 testing for travellers flying into the country. “It’s absolutely critical that the federal government makes sure that it’s mandatory to get tested both ways – a pre-flight test and when you arrive,” he said.
  
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• Doctors, researchers, advocates call for long-term care home changes from Ontario government

  26-01-2021 19:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  A group of over 200 doctors, researchers, and advocates say Ontario must take urgent action to address the rising number of deaths due to COVID-19 in long-term care.
  
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• Coronavirus: Ontario government needs to make long-term care home changes, medical experts urge

  26-01-2021 19:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  "In many circumstances, residents are also left without basic care, hygiene, food and water. This is a human rights violation."
  
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• Trudeau says Canada’s COVID-19 vaccines safe from EU threats to limit exports

  26-01-2021 19:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine doses are still “very much on track” despite new threats from Europe on exports by drugmakers.
  
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• Coronavirus: Trudeau discusses HASCAP business relief program

  26-01-2021 19:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  Speaking to reporters outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discussed the Highly Affected Sectors Credit Availability Program (HASCAP), first announced in November 2020. The program offers 100% government-guaranteed financing for heavily impacted businesses, including those in the travel and tourism industries, by providing low-interest loans of up to $1...
  
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• Coronavirus: Trudeau defends Canada’s border, travel restrictions

  26-01-2021 19:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  Speaking to reporters outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in his opinion, Canada has some of the strongest COVID-19 travel and border restrictions of any country in the world.
  
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• ‘I’m scared’: Toronto COVID-19 survivor who defied odds updates recovery, expresses fear

  26-01-2021 19:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  Mario Castillo Tamayo was attached to a ventilator for around nine weeks, his oxygen levels so low, doctors did not expect he would survive.
  
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• Growing calls for stricter air travel measures in Canada

  26-01-2021 19:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  Amid tougher overall lockdown measures during the pandemic’s brutal second wave, there are increasing calls for stricter rules for those flying into Canada. Shallima Maharaj has more from Pearson Airport.
  
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• 2 charged with attempted murder, firearms seized during investigation into Brampton shooting

  26-01-2021 19:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police said they were called to a shooting at a business on Hale Road in Brampton around 7:50 p.m. on Aug. 22, near Glidden Road.
  
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• Father confirms London, Ont., 19-year-old died from COVID-19

  26-01-2021 18:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  At 19 years old, Yassin Dabeh is the youngest person to die from COVID-19 in London and Middlesex County.
  
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• Up to 15 cm of snow possible for parts of the GTA Tuesday

  26-01-2021 17:43 via globalnews.ca
  
  "We are on track to see more snow today than we’ve had the entire month of January so far in Toronto."
  
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• Coronavirus: Latest developments in the Greater Toronto Area on Jan. 26

  26-01-2021 17:42 via globalnews.ca
  
  Here are the latest developments on the coronavirus pandemic in the Greater Toronto Area for Tuesday.
  
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• RCMP arrest Quebec man linked to social media accounts that called for taking arms to Parliament

  26-01-2021 17:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police said firearms, drugs and counterfeit currency were found during a raid of Raymond Tetu's home.
  
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• Canadian author wins world-wide ‘Watty Awards’

  26-01-2021 16:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  Author Loridee De Villa joins The Morning Show to chat about her award-winning book ‘How To Be The Best Third Wheel.’
  
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