Family rescued after getting lost on a hike in GTA park
Denio Lourenco / citynews - A couple and their 1-year-old child were rescued by police after getting lost on a hike in Rouge National Urban Park earlier this month. According to Toronto police, the family became “disoriented” in dense bush while hiking near a stream in the park on S…
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Human remains found in northwest Calgary park
Ken MacGillivray / globalnews - Calgary police are investigating after a pedestrian discovered what they believed to be human remains in Nose Hill Park on Friday morning.
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St. Michael’s Hospital paves the way for remote robotic treatment of strokes
Nicole Ireland / theglobeandmail - Team has successfully completed 10 brain angiograms using the technique
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BREAKING: Three 15-year-old boys charged in murder of Calgary teen
Western Standard News Services / westernstandard - Three 15-year-old boys have been arrested in connection with the August killing of 16-year-old Calgary youth Carter Spivak-Villeneuve.
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York police arrest five in connection to Vaughan home invasion that killed father of four
Western Standard News Services / westernstandard - York Regional Police have arrested five individuals, including two youths, in connection with the fatal August home invasion that claimed the life of Abdul Aleem Farooqi, a father of four, in Vaughan, Ont.
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Canada can regain its measles elimination status. Here’s how
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - On Monday, the Pan American Health Organization revoked the measles-free status Canada has had since 1998 because an outbreak has lasted for more than a year.
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Massive car blast in Delhi, India kills at least 10
Denette Wilford / torontosun - A car explosion killed at least 10 people near a metro station at the landmark Red Fort monument in northern India on Monday, according to a hospital official.
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Canada loses measles elimination status after outbreaks
Uday Rana / globalnews - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has notified the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) that Canada no longer holds measles elimination status.
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Toronto’s Nov. 9 snowfall marks earliest 10 cm accumulation in more than 50 years
Lucas Casaletto / citynews - Southern Ontario was blanketed in snow over the weekend, as a rare early-season storm brought winter conditions to Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) on Nov. 9, 2025. By Monday morning, most of the city had recorded 10 centimetres of snow, making …
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Parka Party aims to provide Hurricane Melissa relief for Jamaica
Daniel Gonzalez / calgaryherald - 'All the participants of Parka Party are from the Jamaican diaspora with a lot of family members and close contacts there that have lost a lot,' said event organizer Zia Stolbie
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Hundreds more U.S. flights cancelled as government shutdown deepens travel chaos
Bloomberg News / torontosun - Many flights that did eventually take off were delayed by hours
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Tornado kills five, injures more than 400 in Brazil
AFP / torontosun - Twister overturned cars and damaged homes in Rio Bonito do Iguacu, in Parana state
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Canadian airports brace for ripple effects of U.S. FAA flight cuts
Uday Rana / globalnews - Hundreds of flight cancellations spread across the U.S. as airlines began complying with the Federal Aviation Administration's unprecedented order to scale down routes nationwide.
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Officers cleared in fatal shooting of 15-year-old Indigenous boy in Wetaskiwin last year
Kelsey Patterson / citynews - Police were justified in the fatal 2024 shooting of a 15-year-old Indigenous boy in Wetaskiwin because he intimated he was pointing a gun at one of the officers, according to Alberta’s police watchdog. Hoss Lightning, who is not named in Thursday’s report…
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Hurricane Melissa Unleashes Deadly Fury Across Eastern Canada
A powerful Hurricane Melissa is battering Canada’s Maritimes with ferocious winds. Residents are scrambling amid escalating warnings and emergency measures, while local authorities and meteorologists exchange wry looks at the irony of nature’s unpredictable theatrics.
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Hurricane Melissa makes Cuba landfall after lashing Jamaica
Bloomberg News / nationalpost - Melissa became the strongest recorded storm to strike Jamaica, where it left hundreds of thousands without power and forced hospitals to evacuate
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Hurricane Melissa approaching Jamaica as a Category 5 storm
Bloomberg News / nationalpost - With winds of almost 300 kph, Melissa would be the first confirmed Category 5 storm to hit Jamaica, and the worst in the region since 2019
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