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Ontario to give education minister power to more easily take over school boards
Ontario is set to give the minister of education power to more easily put school boards under supervision and require more boards to put police officers in schools.
DEAR ABBY: Family reunion expands with special guests
DEAR ABBY: We have an annual weekend family reunion that includes family and significant others along with their children. Most of the children are adults now. One of them (my niece) was recently ...
Defending champion Panthers head back to Cup final with 5-3 win over Hurricanes
RALEIGH, N.C. — Carter Verhaeghe broke a tie off a feed from Aleksander Barkov with 7:39 left and the defending champion Florida Panthers advanced to their third straight Stanley Cup Final, beating ...
Philadelphia Union rally with two late goals to defeat Toronto FC
Toronto (3-9-4) held the Eastern Conference-leading Philadelphia Union (10-3-3) goalless for 85 minutes Wednesday and looked headed for just its second home win of the season after Norwegian forward ...
Bo Bichette's pinch-hit blast in ninth lifts low-scoring Jays to improbable series win over host Texas
In manager John Schneider’s re-imagined lineup, Springer batted cleanup in the series finale, an order that had Daulton ...
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scores 34 as Thunder tops Timberwolves to advance to NBA Finals
OKLAHOMA CITY — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 points, and the Oklahoma City Thunder routed the Minnesota Timberwolves 124-94 on Wednesday night to win the Western Conference finals series 4-1 and ...
CRIME SCENE: Bowmanville man, 22, accused of sex assault, uttering death threats
A 22-year-old Bowmanville man is wanted by police after a sexual assault downtown. Toronto Police said they responded to a sexual assault call Wednesday in the Beverley-D’Arcy Sts. area after the ...
LILLEY: College of Teachers acts against teacher for denouncing Hamas
Levitan had been an exemplary teacher with the Ottawa Carleton District School Board. She was given the 2022 Anti-Racist and ...
Alpine village is largely destroyed when a Swiss glacier collapses
GENEVA (AP) — A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that ...
Federal trade court blocks Trump's sweeping 'Liberation Day' tariffs
The ruling from a three-judge panel at the New York-based U.S. Court of International Trade came after several lawsuits ...
Back woes sideline Bichette as Blue Jays wrap up series with Rangers
Schneider told reporters at Globe Life Field in Arlington that Bo Bichette was being kept out of the starting lineup for Wednesday’s game against the Rangers with what the team described as lower-back ...
2 Hamilton youths, including 11-year-old, cuffed in stolen vehicle probe
Hamilton Police have arrested a pair of youths, including an 11-year-old, who fled from officers in a stolen van. Cops said that on Tuesday at about 2:45 a.m., they were called to the Rymal-Fletcher ...