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CityNews Toronto Monday, June 16, 2025 5:18 AM
     With just over two weeks until free agency, it appears as though Mitch Marner and the Toronto Maple Leafs are headed toward a breakup. The team has tried talking to its star winger before he hits the open market on July 1, but has been rebuffed, Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman reported on Sunday's 32 Thoughts Podcast. "Marner's camp is not engaged […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, June 16, 2025 4:00 AM
     CALGARY — As world leaders gather at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alta., Lesley Boyer has a message. The Calgary grandmother is angry that U.S. President Donald Trump keeps talking about Canada becoming his country's 51st state. Sitting in a wheelchair at Calgary City Hall on Sunday, Boyer held up a sign with an expletive […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, June 16, 2025 4:00 AM
     ST. MARY'S — A coastal Newfoundland town besieged for decades by the fetid stench wafting from an abandoned fish-sauce factory has finally received good news. Steve Ryan, the mayor of St. Mary's, N.L., said he nearly broke down in tears when officials with the Newfoundland and Labrador government told him the province would foot the […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, June 16, 2025 4:00 AM
     TORONTO — Rifling through the Roots Corp. product archives on a recent Thursday morning, CEO Meghan Roach is surrounded by the kind of heritage "most consumer brands would die to have." In every direction she turns are racks of leather jackets spanning the company's 52 years. Some are replicas of custom pieces gifted to Toronto […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, June 16, 2025 12:31 AM
     It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The resulting Juneteenth holiday — it's name combining "June" and "nineteenth" — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated […]

CityNews Toronto Monday, June 16, 2025 12:06 AM
     LONDON (AP) — The world may be rethinking the American dream. For centuries, people in other countries saw the United States as place of welcome and opportunity. Now, President Donald Trump's drive for mass deportations of migrants is riling the streets of Los Angeles, college campuses, even churches — and fueling a global rethinking about […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, June 15, 2025 11:48 PM
     BELLE PLAINE, Minn. (AP) — The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another crawled to officers in surrender Sunday after they located him in the woods near his home, bringing an end to a massive, nearly two-day search that put the entire state on edge. Vance Boelter was arrested and charged with […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, June 15, 2025 11:30 PM
     TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Iran fired a new wave of missile attacks on Israel early Monday, killing at least five people, while Israel claimed in the fourth day of the conflict that it had now achieved "aerial superiority" over Tehran and could fly over the Iranian capital with impunity. After days of attacks on […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, June 15, 2025 10:22 PM
     KANANASKIS — Canadian fighter jets were deployed to intercept a private, civilian plane that violated restricted airspace above Kananaskis, Alta., where G7 leaders are gathering for meetings. RCMP say in a news release that the fixed-wing Canadian aircraft entered the restricted area shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday, and NORAD's Canadian region deployed CF-18 Hornet fighter […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, June 15, 2025 10:22 PM
     Police are searching for a man who is wanted in connection with an assault and mischief investigation in East York. According to the Toronto Police Service (TPS), officers were called to the area of Dawes Road and Gower Street on Thursday, June 12, at approximately 11:00 p.m.  TPS says the suspect allegedly entered a residential […]

Ottawa Citizen Monday, June 16, 2025 4:15 AM
     We are incredibly fortunate to live in a city with swimmable beaches and rivers that regularly meet water quality guidelines. Let's not take that for granted.

Ottawa Citizen Monday, June 16, 2025 4:00 AM
     A longtime federal employee paid out of pocket for leadership development. They're worried the next generation won't get the same chance.

Ottawa Citizen Monday, June 16, 2025 4:00 AM
     Could a parcel of land owned by the federal government support housing and healthcare in Ottawa? Housing advocates and politicians hope so.

Ottawa Sun Monday, June 16, 2025 4:00 AM
     Monday, June 16: Here are today's Ottawa Sun letters to the editor.

Canada's National Observer Monday, June 16, 2025 5:09 AM
     Kaelem Moniz is helping young people see the forest and plant trees. As special advisor to Scouts Canada's national leadership team, this 20-year-old University of Toronto student donates his time to growing the scouting movement in Canada.

Canada's National Observer Monday, June 16, 2025 5:09 AM
     Lackluster results from a pioneering CO2 removal pilot plant near Reykjavik won't dim interest in an emerging climate technology known as direct air capture, industry says. But skeptics argue the hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into projects in Canada would be better spent on renewables and EVs as DAC might be 'a dead technology walking'.

Canada's National Observer Monday, June 16, 2025 5:09 AM
     A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species' collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

Canada's National Observer Monday, June 16, 2025 5:09 AM
     Danielle Smith blurted out that "we've got the lowest living standards in the world," in a clear case of misspeaking. But what did she really mean?

Canada's National Observer Monday, June 16, 2025 5:09 AM
     Unlike the Ford government's Therme deal — criticized for its lack of public consultation — the City of Toronto is basing its first net-zero aquatic and community centre on three years of community input.