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Thursday, Jul 20

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SIU investigating after man hit by unmarked OPP truck during arrest in Innisfil

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A 30-year-old man was fleeing on foot when an unmarked OPP pickup truck struck him, causing serious injuries, according to the police watchdog.

Gurvinder Nath came to the GTA with ‘big dreams.’ He died in a violent carjacking

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Gurvinder Nath, 24, was a “gentle man” who loved his new car like a baby, his friends say. He died in hospital after a carjacking by unknown assailants last week.

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Coming next month: drinking in some Toronto parks

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City council on Wednesday approved a pilot program that will see the public consumption of alcohol in 27 of the city’s parks.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates attends school board meeting to back teacher told to stop using his book on racism

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Author Ta-Nehisi Coates sat through a meeting in South Carolina to support a high school teacher told to stop using his book, “Between the World and Me,” in her English class.

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Olivia Chow gets unanimous support from Toronto council for new shelter spaces for refugees

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The city will immediately open up 150 new shelter spaces for refugees under a proposal put forward by Olivia Chow on Wednesday during her first council meeting as mayor.

Why country singer Jason Aldean is facing backlash over music video critics say is racist and ‘pro-lynching’

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The video for “Try That in a Small Town” was pulled from rotation on Country Music Television and has been called out by celebrities like Sheryl Crow.

Doug Ford gives children’s hospitals annual $330M funding — touted as the largest expansion of kids’ health-care in Ontario history

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Queen’s Park is giving children’s hospitals an annual booster shot worth $330 million.

B.C. port workers threaten new strike after starting — and stopping — surprise job action, while Ottawa eyes ordering them back

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VANCOUVER— It’s now a race against the clock for the federal government and both sides to end a bitter labour dispute at B.C. ports, after the striking workers’ union paused its surprise return to the picket lines Wednesday but gave notice…

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Man seriously injured in Scarborough shooting

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The shooting happened near Eglinton Avenue East and Kennedy Road on Tuesday night.

Doug Ford and Olivia Chow team up to demand more help from Trudeau government for asylum seekers, refugees

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Premier Doug Ford and Mayor Olivia Chow are teaming up to demand more federal funding to tackle Toronto’s refugee and asylum seekers crisis.

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Canadian wildfires hit Indigenous communities hard, threatening their land and culture

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The worst wildfire season in Canadian history is displacing Indigenous communities from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, blanketing them in thick smoke, destroying homes and forests and threatening important cultural activities.

Refugee shelter crisis first item at Chow’s first council meeting as Toronto mayor

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Chow says her first Toronto city council meeting as mayor will open with a motion about the refugee shelter and housing crisis.

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Ottawa announces funding for Toronto refugee shelter + Grassy Narrows suicide attempt rates linked to mercury exposure

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The refugees who were left without shelter, a First Nation’s suicide attempt rate and a program to attract U.S. tech workers.

Hamilton General Hospital diverting ICU patients because of nursing shortage

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Hamilton General Hospital is diverting the sickest patients to other hospitals because it is so short of critical care nurses that it can only run two-thirds of its highest level intensive care unit (ICU) beds.

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Defense wants trial in attack against Nancy Pelosi’s husband moved from San Francisco

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Lawyers for the man charged in last year’s attack against former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband want his federal trial to be moved out of San Francisco, saying intense publicity means he won’t get a fair trial.

Luxury home sales drop in Toronto with unit sales of $4-million-plus homes sliding 34%

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Toronto has seen a slide in luxury homes sales according to a report released Wednesday by Sotheby’s International Realty Canada.

Why did it take a public shaming to force Ottawa to aid asylum seekers?

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Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow framed the additional funding as a “short-term stop gap” and cautioned it’s not enough to meet the needs of refugees and asylum seekers.

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‘Audacious’: Canada offers work permits to lure tech workers in the U.S., but will they come — and stay?

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Canada has pulled off a successful 48-hour raid of tech workers in the U.S. after opening and closing a quick immigration program one observer is calling “audacious.”

Did the Bank of Canada just push Canada over the tipping point?

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Interest rates can’t fix housing costs and they won’t take one bite out of food inflation. So why is the Bank of Canada continuing down this path?

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B.C. port strike back on after union rejects deal, saying four-year term is too long

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The strike, which ended last Thursday, froze billions of dollars worth of cargo from moving in and out of harbours, including at Canada’s busiest port in Vancouver.

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