| | TORONTO STAR Friday, October 29, 2021 11:26 AM | |  Nygard, 80, was flown from Winnipeg to Toronto on Thursday and made a virtual court appearance from a downtown police station. He is also facing extradition to the U.S. |
| | TORONTO STAR Friday, October 29, 2021 10:56 AM | |  The province says nearly 11 per cent of schools in Ontario have a reported case of COVID in schools. In local regions, there are 63 new cases in Toronto, 34 in Windsor-Essex, 32 in Peel and 30 in York. |
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| | CTV News - Toronto Friday, October 29, 2021 10:40 AM | | The National Advisory Committee on Immunization has expanded eligibility guidelines for booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines. The committee now recommends mRNA boosters to people who received two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, adults over the age of 70, front-line health-care workers with a short interval between their first two doses, and people from First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities.
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| | CTVNews.ca - Top Stories - Public Friday, October 29, 2021 10:40 AM | | The National Advisory Committee on Immunization has expanded eligibility guidelines for booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines. The committee now recommends mRNA boosters to people who received two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, adults over the age of 70, front-line health-care workers with a short interval between their first two doses, and people from First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities.
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| | CTVNews.ca - Top Stories - Public Friday, October 29, 2021 11:33 AM | | Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will reveal today whether it will continue fighting an order directing it to compensate First Nations children removed from their homes.
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| | CTVNews.ca - Top Stories - Public Friday, October 29, 2021 10:59 AM | | Former NHL player Georges Laraque says it will take 'real consequences' for changes to be made in the league in light of a sexual abuse case involving the Chicago Blackhawks.
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| | CTVNews.ca - Top Stories - Public Friday, October 29, 2021 11:49 AM | | A study of Canadian students in grades 4 to 12 suggests that children who learned remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic reported they felt they 'mattered less' than their peers who studied in person.
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| | CTVNews.ca - Top Stories - Public Friday, October 29, 2021 10:34 AM | | The Department of Canadian Heritage says the national flag will remain at half-mast leading up to Remembrance Day instead of hoisting it up to be lowered again.
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| | Friday, October 29, 2021 11:43 AM | | Canada's COVID-19 housing boom has attracted a larger-than-usual share of speculators, many of whom took advantage of falling variable mortgage rates
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| | Friday, October 29, 2021 11:27 AM | | Since the start of the pandemic, the total number of people infected by the virus stands at 424,802, with 409,269 recoveries. To date, 11,491 Quebecers have died of COVID-19.
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| | Friday, October 29, 2021 11:27 AM | | After Facebook changed its name to Meta on Thursday, Canadian company Meta Materials experienced a jump in stock price during opening trading on Friday.
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| | Friday, October 29, 2021 11:19 AM | | The Edmonton Elks host the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on The Brick Field at Commonwealth Stadium on Friday night looking for their first win at home this season.
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| | Friday, October 29, 2021 11:12 AM | | Guelph police say one of its officers had a bicycle thrown at him while responding to a shoplifting call near the mall on Thursday.
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| | Friday, October 29, 2021 11:10 AM | | 'You never know. You watch this stuff on the news and think, I am glad I live in Canada with no guns and no gun violence, but there is.'
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| | Friday, October 29, 2021 11:07 AM | | Peterborough County OPP say a Porsche was left parked on the shoulder of County Road 507 in the Municipality of Trent Lakes, north of Buckhorn.
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| | Friday, October 29, 2021 11:07 AM | | Previously, those with tick bites had to go to a doctor or nurse practitioner to get a provincially covered assessment.
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| | Friday, October 29, 2021 11:04 AM | | The Ottawa Police Service has charged four people this week in connection with falsifying COVID-19 vaccination certificates, the latest including a worker at a local shelter.
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| | Friday, October 29, 2021 11:00 AM | | Their ties to a Western government and progressive causes have put them on a collision course with the Taliban.
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| | Toronto Sun Friday, October 29, 2021 11:55 AM | | 'There is definitely a sadness ... but these things happen and everything must come to end,' the series creator and star says
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| | Toronto Sun Friday, October 29, 2021 11:55 AM | | WATCH BELOW as Toronto Sun reporter Scott Laurie explains how Canada is dependent on trade with China. What do YOU think? Tweet and Facebook us! And don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube Channel.
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| | Toronto Sun Friday, October 29, 2021 11:51 AM | | Chicago Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz has asked the Hockey Hall of Fame to remove former video coach and convicted sex offender Brad Aldrich's name from the Stanley Cup. In a letter obtained by ESPN, Wirtz suggested "x-ing out" Aldrich's name. "While nothing can undo what he did, leaving his name on the most prestigious trophy […]
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| | Toronto Sun Friday, October 29, 2021 11:29 AM | | WASHINGTON — The office of New York congressman Brian Higgins says U.S. Customs and Border Protection won't be requiring a negative COVID-19 test for fully vaccinated travellers in order to cross the land border with Canada. A spokesperson for Higgins says the agency is expected to release additional details in the next few days before […]
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| | Toronto Sun Friday, October 29, 2021 11:27 AM | | Rita DeMontis, who has been with the Sun 45 years, looks back at 50 years of publishing
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| | Toronto Sun Friday, October 29, 2021 11:24 AM | | OTTAWA — The National Advisory Committee on Immunization has expanded eligibility guidelines for booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines. The committee now recommends mRNA boosters to people who received two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, adults over the age of 70, front-line health-care workers with a short interval between their first two doses, and people from […]
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| | Toronto Sun Friday, October 29, 2021 11:09 AM | | OTTAWA — Friday is the deadline for employees in the core federal public service to declare their COVID-19 vaccination status, but unions say there are still many questions about how requests for accommodations will be handled. The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat says 240,000 employees have filed their attestations of their vaccine status to the […]
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| | Toronto Sun Friday, October 29, 2021 10:51 AM | | Work those walls with next generation papers A professional wallpaper installer who partners with leading luxury designers on everything from custom homes to five-star hotel residences, Katie Hunt knows how to dress a wall. Collaborating with Boston-based A-Street Prints, Hunt used those insights as creative fuel for a new line of wall murals that are […]
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| | Toronto Sun Friday, October 29, 2021 10:41 AM | | Do any of you have an old Scottish grannie or a maiden aunt who hails from the Highlands? If you do, then chances are you're familiar with the concept of 'best room'. "Don't go in there," she'd probably chide as you twisted a faceted glass door knob and endeavoured to enter the furtive, shadowy world. […]
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| | Toronto Sun Friday, October 29, 2021 10:41 AM | | He faces sexual assault charges dating back to the late 1980s
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 29, 2021 11:50 AM | | Back in April, CityNews shared the story of a murdered man whose family's grief was exacerbated by lengthy and repeated delays in his accused killer's trial. On Friday, the province of Ontario announced new measures to ensure serious criminal cases aren't unnecessarily delayed. Ontario said it's investing more than $72 million over two years to […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 29, 2021 11:41 AM | | GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) — Toyota is investing $461 million into its first U.S. plant to add new technology, increase production flexibility and reduce its carbon footprint, the company said Friday in a statement. The announcement didn't include new jobs at the central Kentucky facility, but officials said 1,400 temporary jobs would be converted into permanent […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 29, 2021 11:37 AM | | The National Advisory Committee on Immunization has released more guidance to provinces and territories on COVID-19 booster doses. NACI is now strongly recommending third doses be offered to certain high-risk groups at least six months after their second shot. This includes people aged 80 and over, and adults in long-term care settings. The committee also […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 29, 2021 11:36 AM | | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana's largest health system cannot fire or otherwise discipline north Louisiana employees who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 while the mandate's legality is in court, a state appeals court says. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeal in Shreveport ruled Thursday, just a day before Ochsner Health's Friday deadline for its […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 29, 2021 11:35 AM | | TORONTO — Canada's main stock index was down in late-morning trading as the base metal, financial and utility sectors pulled back, while U.S. stock markets were mixed. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 66.50 points at 21,131.03. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 57.58 points at 35,788.06. The S&P 500 index […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 29, 2021 11:34 AM | | DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Musician Zayn Malik has pleaded no contest to charges that he harassed his girlfriend — supermodel Gigi Hadid — and her reality TV star mother during a violent Sept. 29 argument at the family's home outside Philadelphia. The former One Direction singer was accused of grabbing Yolanda Hadid and shoving her […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 29, 2021 11:31 AM | | KENOVA, W.Va. (AP) — When COVID-19 vaccines first became available, Ric Griffith's family-owned drugstore was among 250 mom-and-pop pharmacies that helped West Virginia get off to the fastest start of any state in vaccinating its residents. Republican Gov. Jim Justice went on national news shows to declare West Virginia — a place that regularly ranks […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 29, 2021 11:28 AM | | PHOENIX (AP) — Witches and warlocks, ghosts and ghouls can breathe a little easier this year: Coronavirus cases in the U.S. are on the decline, and trick-or-treaters can feel safer collecting candy. And while a new poll indicates Halloween participation is rebounding but still short of pre-pandemic levels, an industry trade group says people who […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 29, 2021 11:20 AM | | WEITCHPEC, Calif. (AP) — Elizabeth Azzuz stood in prayer on a Northern California mountainside, grasping a torch of wormwood branches, the fuel her Native American ancestors used to burn underbrush in thick forests. "Guide our hands as we bring fire back to the land," she intoned before igniting leaves and needles carpeting the slope above […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 29, 2021 11:04 AM | | BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania's anti-crime agency said Friday that four people have been detained on suspicion of stealing 22 high-performance bicycles belonging to the Italian national cycling team, worth an estimated 600,000 euros ($697,000). The Italian cyclists' bikes went missing on Oct. 23 from a hotel in the French city of Lille where the […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 29, 2021 11:02 AM | | KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus has forced the closure of the U.S. Embassy's Public Diplomacy and USAID offices in a move that comes amid the tensions with the U.S. and its allies over Belarusian authorities' crackdown on protests. Samantha Power, the U.S. Agency for International Development administrator, said Friday that the Belarusian authorities aim to […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 29, 2021 11:00 AM | | OTTAWA — The federal government ran a deficit of more than $57 billion over the first five months of its fiscal year, about $114 billion less than the treasury pumped out during the same stretch one year earlier. The Finance Department's regular fiscal monitor says the budgetary deficit between April and August was $57.2 billion, […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 29, 2021 10:59 AM | | UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council extended the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the disputed Western Sahara for a year on Friday, expressing concern at the breakdown of the 1991 cease-fire between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front and calling for a revival of U.N.-led negotiations. The vote was 13-2, with Russia and Tunisia […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 29, 2021 10:59 AM | | ROME (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday challenged the G-20 leaders to overcome "dangerous levels of mistrust" among themselves and between developed and developing nations to try to avoid "climate catastrophe" as well as narrow an "immoral gap" on global vaccine distribution and pandemic recovery aid. Guterres spoke to reporters in Rome on […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 29, 2021 10:55 AM | | SASKATOON — Cameco Corp. reported a $72-million loss in its latest quarter compared with a loss of $61 million in the same quarter last year as its revenue fell five per cent. The uranium miner says the loss amounted to 18 cents per diluted share for the quarter ended Sept. 30 compared with a loss […]
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| | Ottawa Citizen Friday, October 29, 2021 11:34 AM | | The federal group of experts that gives advice on COVID-19 vaccines says provinces and territories may consider authorizing booster shots for a wider group of people, including seniors over 70, some front-line health care workers and people who received two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. The advice from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) […]
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| | Ottawa Citizen Friday, October 29, 2021 11:23 AM | | An employee of a local shelter alleged to have used a fraudulent COVID-19 vaccine certificate to keep her job is one of two people facing new fraud-related charges. On Sept. 21, the director of an unnamed shelter told police that they suspected that one of their employees had given them a fraudulent certificate, the Ottawa […]
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| | The Georgia Straight Friday, October 29, 2021 10:59 AM | | It came after hockey player Kyle Beach told TSN that there is no way that his former coach didn't know what happened back in 2010.
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| | The Georgia Straight Friday, October 29, 2021 10:23 AM | | The communications department might have set a record when it included seven city councillors' quotes in a single news release.
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| | The Georgia Straight Friday, October 29, 2021 10:00 AM | | Part of the RendezViews team heads indoors with a dining concept for everyone who can't go on vacation.
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| | Windsor Star Friday, October 29, 2021 10:49 AM | | Chick-fil-A, a popular but at times controversial American fast-food chain, opened its first location in Windsor Thursday morning. When the restaurant opened its Devonshire Mall location at 10 a.m., there were more than two dozen cars waiting in line and Windsor police were on site directing traffic. Owner-operator Jordan Schmidt, who was born in London […]
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| | Windsor Star Friday, October 29, 2021 10:40 AM | | Hockey can be a funny game. The Windsor Spitfires put 50 shots on goal on Saturday and could only produce one goal. On Thursday, the Spitfires had four goals on the team's first six shots of the game en route to a 6-3 win over the Guelph Storm before a crowd of 2,835 at the […]
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| | Windsor Star Friday, October 29, 2021 10:39 AM | | Few people get as excited for a pending power play as Windsor Spitfires' head coach Marc Savard. When a referee's arm goes up for a delayed penalty, it's not uncommon to see Savard scramble for his white board to draw something up. "That's my baby," Savard said. "That's my thing." Over parts of 13 seasons […]
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| | Windsor Star Friday, October 29, 2021 10:17 AM | | Windsor Police Services Major Crime Unit investigators have positively identified the black Chevrolet Equinox pictured in previously released photos and determined it was not involved in the October 15th hit-and-run incident that resulted in the death of a pedestrian. The owner and driver of the vehicle came forward and cooperated fully with investigators. Investigators are […]
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| | Ottawa Sun Friday, October 29, 2021 10:19 AM | | OTTAWA SENATORS 2-4-0 at DALLAS STARS 3-3-1 Friday, 8:30 p.m., TV: TSN5 Radio: TSN 1200, Unique 94.5 FM GOD BLESS AMERICA The Senators will play a game on American soil for the first time since March 11, 2020 when the NHL went on pause because of the pandemic. Judging by the skate Thursday, newcomer Dylan […]
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| | Saskatoon StarPhoenix Friday, October 29, 2021 11:44 AM | | Cameron sealed 75 per cent of the vote over challenger Robert Merasty, a former Flying Dust First Nation chief.
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| | Regina Leader-Post Friday, October 29, 2021 11:08 AM | | The throne speech started out OK but then went sideways into thinly veiled partisanship when pressing issues got a little tough to handle.
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| | Regina Leader-Post Friday, October 29, 2021 10:22 AM | | Sawyer Sonsteby and Marcus Butz each had three interceptions for the Greenall Griffins in Thursday's 31-0 RIFL playoff victory over Johnson.
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| | Montreal Gazette Friday, October 29, 2021 11:56 AM | | Pierre Lacroix died Oct. 17 when a rescue boat capsized on the Lachine Rapids. He and three colleagues were rescuing boaters in distress.
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| | Montreal Gazette Friday, October 29, 2021 11:48 AM | | Many people prefer "real" mined diamonds and see others as "fake." I actually appreciate the "fakes" more, especially synthetic diamonds.
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| | Montreal Gazette Friday, October 29, 2021 11:35 AM | | Federal immunization committee names several more groups that should qualify for booster shots, including adults over 70.
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| | Montreal Gazette Friday, October 29, 2021 11:34 AM | | The provincial government has set a target that calls for the health care network to "benefit from the services" of 4,300 more nurses.
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| | Montreal Gazette Friday, October 29, 2021 11:21 AM | | The U.S. will open its land borders to fully vaccinated international travellers Nov. 8. Stowe Mountain Resort has mask and vaccine mandates for some indoor activities (see stowe.com or accd.vermont.gov). George and Mary Anne Lewis, owners of the Brass Lantern Inn in Stowe, Vt., are a storybook couple. He is an architect from Ohio and […]
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| | Montreal Gazette Friday, October 29, 2021 11:02 AM | | The province's new "culture and citizenship" course is not the way to help students.
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| | Montreal Gazette Friday, October 29, 2021 11:01 AM | | What better place to be on Halloween than Gore or Mystic?
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| | Montreal Gazette Friday, October 29, 2021 10:10 AM | | The Montreal comedian's lawyer, Julius Grey, argued the jokes were aimed at Gabriel as a celebrity and not because of his disabilities.
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| | Calgary Herald Friday, October 29, 2021 11:44 AM | | Variable rate mortgages are recently looking like a better choice over fixed rate for some homebuyers
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| | Calgary Herald Friday, October 29, 2021 11:16 AM | | Aspen Landing, University District and the Beltline are areas seeing hotter sales
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| | Calgary Herald Friday, October 29, 2021 11:03 AM | | At the end of Eugene Stickland's book, No Harm Done, the Calgary-based playwright includes what he calls The Dramatist's Guide: Writing a Play on Commission for a Special Cause. It offers an often humorous behind-the-scenes breakdown of some of the mechanics involved in writing on demand. In the final chapter, he sets a somewhat ego-deflating […]
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| | Calgary Herald Friday, October 29, 2021 10:00 AM | | Actress Jessica Matten wanted to make a television series about Indigenous people in the foster-care system. She was not going to pull any punches. Tentatively titled Candy, it was to be unapologetically dark in its exploration of the foster system's impact on Indigenous children, on missing and murdered aboriginal women and on human trafficking. When […]
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| | Vancouver Sun Friday, October 29, 2021 10:00 AM | | Canadian book stores lost half their business from 1995 to 2015
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