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• Toronto Humane Society's longest resident dog finds 'forever' home | Watch News Videos Online - Globalnews.ca

  10-05-2019 23:50 via globalnews.ca
  Toronto Humane Society's longest resident dog finds 'forever' home | Watch News Videos Online  Globalnews.caAfter four years in the Toronto Humane Society's care and two failed adoptions, five-year-old Odie has found a loving and familiar family in BC. Mark Carcasole ...
  
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• Drug test shows Chair Girl did not use cocaine: Lawyer - Toronto Sun

  10-05-2019 23:39 via torontosun.com
  Drug test shows Chair Girl did not use cocaine: Lawyer  Toronto SunHigh-flying Chair Girl has tested clean of cocaine in a private lab test, her lawyer Greg Leslie says.Marcella Zoia — who paid for the test at North York Medical ...
  
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• Home of the Week: Light-filled Toronto condo casts a spell - The Globe and Mail

  10-05-2019 23:00 via theglobeandmail.com
  Home of the Week: Light-filled Toronto condo casts a spell  The Globe and MailHome of the Week, 1815 Yonge St, unit 2002. Jordan Prussky/The Print Market. The listing: 1815 Yonge St., Unit 2002, Toronto. Asking Price: $1,165,000.
  
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• Roommate matchmaking event seeks to connect tenants in Toronto’s tight rental market - Toronto Star

  10-05-2019 22:56 via thestar.com
  Roommate matchmaking event seeks to connect tenants in Toronto’s tight rental market  Toronto StarFinding a roommate is not that dissimilar to dating, it's just the conclusion that's different,” says one prospective roommate.
  
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• Religious leader charged after sexual assault at London church

  10-05-2019 22:50
  Police say they've charged a 33-year-old religious leader in London, Ont., with sexual assault.
  
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• Viral video of car on QEW leads police to Hamilton break-and-enter arrests

  10-05-2019 22:32
  A viral video of a vehicle driving along a GTA highway with its doors wide open has led investigators to make two arrests in connection with a series of break-and-enters in Hamilton.
  
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• May festivals celebrate Toronto’s varied array of birds - The Globe and Mail

  10-05-2019 21:46 via theglobeandmail.com
  May festivals celebrate Toronto’s varied array of birds  The Globe and MailWith a sloped arc of green feathers on its head, iridescent markings on its body and a distinct red eye, the wood duck is one of North America's most visually ...
  
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• Beer Store union warns of price hikes, job losses in new ad blitz targeting Ford

  10-05-2019 21:27
  The union representing 7,000 Beer Store employees is launching an advertising blitz warning of job losses, price increases and a reported $1 billion penalty if Premier Doug Ford expands the sale of booze to corner stores.
  
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• Bauhaus influences can be found all over Toronto, even 100 years later - Toronto Star

  10-05-2019 21:01 via thestar.com
  Bauhaus influences can be found all over Toronto, even 100 years later  Toronto StarModernism, urban design and architecture wouldn't be the same today without the Bauhaus art and design school founded in Germany in 1919.
  
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• Police across Ontario target street racers, dangerous drivers in 'Project E.R.A.S.E.'

  10-05-2019 20:34
  Police across Ontario launched “Project E.R.A.S.E.” on Friday in an effort to rid roadways of dangerous drivers.
  
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• Union files complaint against Toronto day school - Canadian Jewish News

  10-05-2019 20:26 via cjnews.com
  Union files complaint against Toronto day school  Canadian Jewish NewsThe Federation of Teachers in Hebrew Schools Toronto has filed a grievance against a Toronto Jewish day school, after the organization's president caused ...
  
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• Hockey legend Red Kelly remembered at funeral in Toronto

  10-05-2019 20:22
  Family, friends and the hockey world bid farewell to Red Kelly at the NHL great's funeral on Friday.
  
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• After heavy spring flooding, Ontario creating task force focused on flood resilience

  10-05-2019 20:14 via cbc.ca
  Ontario is creating a task force on improving the province's resilience to flooding, not long after the Progressive Conservative government cut conservation authorities' funding for flood management in half.
  
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• Driver, 16, dead after horrific crash in Scarborough - Toronto Sun

  10-05-2019 18:50 via torontosun.com
  Driver, 16, dead after horrific crash in Scarborough  Toronto SunA combination of youth, speed and less than ideal driving conditions has left one teen dead and two others with serious injuries after a horrific crash in northwest ...
  
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• Ontario creating task force to improve flooding resilience

  10-05-2019 18:42
  Ontario is creating a task force on improving the province's resilience to flooding, following high water levels this spring in several communities.
  
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• Toronto police collect 1,235 guns through buyback program - Toronto Star

  10-05-2019 18:31 via thestar.com
  Toronto police collect 1,235 guns through buyback program  Toronto StarToronto Police Services announced on Friday that it had retrieved 1,235 firearms from its three-week gun buyback program launched on April 26. Police are ...
  
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• Doug Ford and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe discuss carbon tax, red tape in Toronto

  10-05-2019 18:19 via cbc.ca
  The premiers of Ontario and Saskatchewan met Friday in Toronto to discuss a variety of issues, including the federal carbon tax.   
  
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• 110 km/h coming to 3 Ontario highways starting September

  10-05-2019 18:05 via cbc.ca
  Ontario's transportation minister announced on Friday 3 pilot projects that will see speed limits on three provincial highways increase to 110 km/h, a move that has drawn both applause and concern from experts. 
  
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• Speed limits on parts of three Ontario highways will increase to 110km/h

  10-05-2019 17:47
  Speed limits on stretches of three Ontario highways will increase to 110km/h as the province kicks off a two-year pilot project.
  
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• RioCan plans its first CMHC-backed financing for Toronto rental tower - BNNBloomberg.ca

  10-05-2019 16:48 via bnnbloomberg.ca
  RioCan plans its first CMHC-backed financing for Toronto rental tower  BNNBloomberg.caRioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (REI_u.TO) is planning to tap funding backed by Canada's housing agency for the first time to help finance a rental building ...
  
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• Man wanted on Canada-wide warrant known to frequent London, Toronto area - Global News

  10-05-2019 16:29 via globalnews.ca
  Man wanted on Canada-wide warrant known to frequent London, Toronto area  Global NewsPolice are asking for the public's help finding a 56-year-old federal offender who is known to frequent the cities of Hamilton, Toronto, Belleville, London as well ...
  
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• Toronto Catholic school teacher accused of sex assault - Toronto Sun

  10-05-2019 15:34 via torontosun.com
  Toronto Catholic school teacher accused of sex assault  Toronto SunA Toronto Catholic high school teacher is accused of sexually assaulting a student on school property.Toronto Police allege that the male teacher at Father John ...
  
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• Five hurt, driver charged after fuel truck hits plane at Toronto’s Pearson airport - The Globe and Mail

  10-05-2019 15:16 via theglobeandmail.com
  Five hurt, driver charged after fuel truck hits plane at Toronto’s Pearson airport  The Globe and MailFive people were taken to hospital with minor injuries and a fuel-truck driver was charged after a truck hit a plane on the tarmac at Toronto Pearson airport early ...
  
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• Watch the funeral of NHL Hall of Famer Red Kelly

  10-05-2019 15:10 via cbc.ca
  Watch live as friends and family gather for the funeral of Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings legend Red Kelly.
  
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• Friends, family pay respects to life of NHL Hall of Famer Red Kelly

  10-05-2019 15:10 via cbc.ca
  Friends and family gathered for the funeral of Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings legend Red Kelly in Toronto on Friday.
  
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• Canada's economy adds 106,500 jobs, most in a month since 1976

  10-05-2019 15:04 via cbc.ca
  Canada's labour market delivered a surprise Friday with its biggest one-month employment surge since 1976, when the government started collecting comparable data. The economy added 106,500 jobs in April, Statistics Canada reports.
  
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• Clean, green living in north Toronto’s Wilson Heights neighbourhood - Toronto Star

  10-05-2019 15:02 via thestar.com
  Clean, green living in north Toronto’s Wilson Heights neighbourhood  Toronto StarA new park is among the green highlights of a condo project that will grow from a former parking lot in north Toronto's Wilson Heights neighbourhood.
  
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• Homeowner stunned after package, mail, lamp stolen in 'extremely rude' porch theft

  10-05-2019 15:00 via cbc.ca
  A homeowner in the Dufferin Grove area was stunned after a thief made off with a package, a bundle of mail and a lamp from inside her enclosed front porch.
  
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• Canada's labour market sees biggest one-month jobs gain since 1976

  10-05-2019 15:00
  Canada's economy is reporting its biggest one-month employment surge since 1976, when the government started collecting comparable data.
  
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• When beer and wine almost made it into Ontario corner stores

  10-05-2019 14:30 via cbc.ca
  Premier David Peterson's 1985 campaign included a promise to make beer and wine available in Ontario corner stores. But the opposition parties just couldn't swallow the idea.
  
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• Teacher at Etobicoke school arrested in sexual assault investigation, Toronto police say - Toronto Star

  10-05-2019 14:27 via thestar.com
  Teacher at Etobicoke school arrested in sexual assault investigation, Toronto police say  Toronto StarPolice made the arrest Wednesday in the ongoing sexual assault investigation conducted by the Child & Youth Advocacy Centre. It is alleged that the teacher ...
  
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• Ontario and Saskatchewan premiers meeting today in Toronto

  10-05-2019 14:03
  The premiers of Ontario and Saskatchewan are set to meet in Toronto today.
  
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• Ontario and Saskatchewan premiers meet in Toronto, talk carbon tax

  10-05-2019 14:03
  The premiers of Ontario and Saskatchewan met Friday in Toronto to discuss a variety of issues, including the federal carbon tax.
  
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• He killed an innocent man over a gold chain. His Toronto jury didn’t hear he was part of another ‘chain rip’ six weeks later - Toronto Star

  10-05-2019 14:00 via thestar.com
  He killed an innocent man over a gold chain. His Toronto jury didn’t hear he was part of another ‘chain rip’ six weeks later  Toronto StarA jury this week convicted 32-year-old Clifton Vassel of first-degree murder for the October 2014 killing of Andrew Surage. Vassel had earlier received a 10-year ...
  
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• Etobicoke school teacher charged in alleged sexual assault of student

  10-05-2019 14:00
  A teacher at an Etobicoke school is facing charges in connection with the sexual assault of a female student.
  
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• Minor injuries after Air Canada Jazz plane collides with fuel truck at Pearson

  10-05-2019 13:54
  Five people were taken to hospital with minor injuries after an Air Canada Jazz plane collided with a fuel truck on the runway at Pearson International Airport.
  
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• Teen dead, 2 teens injured after car smashes into pole in Scarborough

  10-05-2019 12:51 via cbc.ca
  The vehicle hit the cement base of a pole on the west side of the intersection, and the pole fell down onto the sedan. 
  
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• 16-year-old dead, 2 other teens injured after car smashes into pole in Scarborough

  10-05-2019 12:51 via cbc.ca
  The vehicle hit the cement base of a pole on the west side of the intersection, and the pole fell down onto the sedan. 
  
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• Ontario and Saskatchewan premiers meet in Toronto, talk carbon tax - CTV News Windsor

  10-05-2019 12:25 via windsor.ctvnews.ca
  Ontario and Saskatchewan premiers meet in Toronto, talk carbon tax  CTV News WindsorThe premiers of Ontario and Saskatchewan met Friday in Toronto to discuss a variety of issues, including the federal carbon tax.
  
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• 'Incredibly scary': Air Canada plane, fuel tanker collide at Toronto's Pearson airport

  10-05-2019 12:14 via cbc.ca
  Five people were injured during the collision of an Air Canada Express plane and a fuel tanker truck at Toronto's Pearson International airport early Friday.
  
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• Air Canada plane, fuel tanker truck collide at Pearson airport

  10-05-2019 12:14 via cbc.ca
  Five people were injured when an Air Canada Express plane and a fuel tanker truck collided at Toronto's Pearson International airport early Friday.
  
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• Air Canada plane, fuel tanker truck collide at Pearson

  10-05-2019 12:14 via cbc.ca
  Five people were injured when an Air Canada Jazz plane and a fuel tanker truck collided at Toronto's Pearson International airport early today.
  
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• Air Canada Jazz plane, fuel tanker truck collide at Pearson

  10-05-2019 12:14 via cbc.ca
  Five people were injured when an Air Canada Jazz plane and a fuel tanker truck collided at Toronto's Pearson International airport early today.
  
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• How would you like to see Yonge Street transformed? The city wants to know

  10-05-2019 12:00 via cbc.ca
  The City of Toronto is holding a series of public consultations on redesigning Yonge Street between Queen and College. It is asking citizens what kind of design will best transform the busy stretch into a more pedestrian-friendly space.
  
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