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Canada Day is Anne-Marie DeSouza’s favourite holiday — next to Christmas — which explained her festive getup, complete with Canadian flag-themed sunglasses, face paint, and red-and-white balloons in her hair. “My brother was laughing at me,” said DeSouza at Nathan Phillips Square, one of several Toronto locations with events ...

Known as the Big Smoke, Toronto’s nickname was especially fitting on Tuesday.As forest fires raged in Quebec and northeastern Ontario, a yellow-tinted smoke settled upon Toronto. By evening, the city’s air quality ranked among the world’s worst, at times ahead of even Lahore, Pakistan, which was labelled the planet’s ...

The flashing police lights are gone and a small flower memorial is growing outside a Vaughan highrise tower where a mass shooting took the lives of three members of the condo board and two of their spouses, leaving another resident hospitalized.“Our home has been taken from us,” said John ...

They didn’t stand a chance.Sean Petrie left a trail of three deaths, multiple serious injuries and several terrorized witnesses in his wake as he drove from Mississauga to Milton to Hamilton where he was shot dead in an “exchange of gunfire” with police.Why the 40-year-old gunman went on his ...

Described as a devoted family man, good community worker and lover of cricket, Shakeel Ashraf is being remembered in the Milton community where he was fatally shot in a GTA shooting rampage on Monday. Ashraf, 39, was killed at the workplace he owned Monday afternoon by the same gunman ...

Polio, an infectious disease that was eradicated in Canada nearly three decades ago, has re-emerged in some Western nations despite widely available and effective vaccines against the illness.And although Canadians are largely vaccinated against the disease that can cause paralysis or death, the disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic that ...

For four years straight, Dr. Makini McGuire-Brown has applied to get one of the limited residency spots in Canada for internationally-trained doctors.And each year, the Toronto resident has been turned down, a refusal which means she can’t get the Canadian clinical experience she needs to get licensed in Ontario.“It’s ...

The 64th Grammy Awards this weekend came with its fair share of shut outs, big winners, and first-timers on Sunday night. Arguably considered one of music’s biggest nights, some superstar artists were noticeably absent at the event.Here are some highlights from the Grammy Awards:BTS shut out for a second ...

In January 2020, Ejaz Butt was preparing to throw a spanner in the works of one of the world’s biggest tech companies. A long-time labour activist in his native Pakistan, Butt was now a GTA-based driver for Uber Black’s luxury ride-sharing service and a key part of a new ...

A herd of mighty elephants rush, trumpeting down a river, seemingly charging towards a man standing in the middle of the flowing water.But these gentle giants seem delighted, not angry, as they splish-splash their way toward the man, who beckons them with loud calls, hands cupped around his mouth.As ...