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'People are going to die.' Majority of Torontonians disagree with withdrawing funds for supervised drug consumption sites, poll finds - Of the respondents, 65 per cent said they disapproved of the provincial decision, according to a poll by Forum Research Inc.

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Ottawa gives temporary reprieve to Toronto drug consumption sites that the province planned to close

21 days ago

Editorial | Ford government puts lives at risk by reducing injection sites

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Toronto council makes decisions and Doug Ford's government keeps changing them

17 hours ago

Leafs win away from eliminating Bruins after Game 5 triumph in Boston -- The Maple Leafs can wrap up their first series win since 2004 in Sunday's Game 6 at Scotiabank Arena.

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Raptors impose their will in Game 3 road win over Magic -- Pascal Siakam fuels offence on an off night for Kawhi Leonard in Orlando. Raptors up 2-1 heading into Sunday's Game 4.

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Jordan Peterson, Slavoj Zizek each draw fans at sold-out debate -- Toronto author Jordan Peterson seemed to have a hometown advantage in Friday's debate against Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, on the topic "Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism." But there were no real fireworks between the two thinkers — in fact, they often agreed, even if their supporters do not.

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Ontario abandons property ownership as source of jurors -- Ontario's fundamental change to its justice system vastly expands the pool of potential jurors to better reflect economic and racial diversity. This follows a 2018 Star/Ryerson School of Journalism investigation into racially imbalanced juries.

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Heiress pleads guilty in NXIVM sex slave case

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Canada recycles just 9 per cent of its plastics. A new 'circular economy' could change that — and create jobs, report says

9 hours ago

Easter long weekend: what's open and closed in Toronto

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What is the new maximum fine for noise violations in Toronto? Take the Star News Quiz

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The Wall Street Journal | Notre Dame donations highlight France's blurry corporate governance

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Lab confirms measles case in York Region -- Travel-related cases linked to two medical facilities and a restaurant where officials warn people may have been exposed to the disease.

18 hours ago

The old Scarborough Double-Bluff: Man lures firefighters to park, then tries to steal their truck -- Police said a man call 911 claiming he was trapped on the Scarborough Bluffs. But he was bluffing.

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Shawn Micallef: Toronto's heritage advocates have a responsibility to find room for new people -- If the city keeps using "heritage" to say no to new residents, it risks losing a whole generation of heritage advocates who are struggling to live here, writes Shawn Micallef.

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Hemingway's apartment bought by children's author -- Author-illustrator wins out over other buyers to secure Hemingway's old condo.

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Man arrested for a hit and run at transit shelter -- Police have arrested and charged Julian Clarke, 26, of Toronto, after last Sunday's crash near College St. and Spadina Ave.

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Is the middle of a sidewalk a bad place for a stop sign? -- A local resident thinks so, but a city employee who responded to his complaint defended it, writes Jack Lakey.

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Rain will make for a very wet Good Friday and Easter Saturday in Toronto -- Region to get 25 to 50 millimetres of rain through Good Friday and Saturday, Environment Canada said. May flowers should be worth a wet long weekend ....

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Mayor Tory calls province's cuts to Toronto Public Health 'a targeted attack' on the city -- A conference call Thursday confirmed the reduction in units and new funding formula, board of health chair Councillor Joe Cressy said.

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Susan Delacourt: Trudeau could face a tough second election, just like his father did -- Veterans of the Pierre Trudeau government, which won only a bare minority government four years after Trudeaumania, were in Ottawa this week to mark the 37th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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Edward Keenan: Budget cut a sign that Doug Ford's contempt for libraries persists -- There are signs Premier Doug Ford's contempt for libraries, of all places, persists, writes Edward Keenan.

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Jason Kenney's Alberta election vow will not derail national carbon tax, says environment minister -- "It can no longer be free to pollute," Environment Minister Catherine McKenna tells the Star.

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NDP accuses Ford government of violating federal election law with mandatory blue gas-pump stickers -- The provincial New Democrats have complained to Elections Canada about the Progressive Conservative government's gas pump stickers, which can net businesses who don't post them a fine of $10,000 a day.

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Ford government cuts Ontario Library Service budgets in half -- Interlibrary loans, training, professional development, catalogue system all at risk

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How an Ohio man fooled authorities into thinking he was a missing Illinois boy -- Until this month, the FBI's Cincinnati field office had never before investigated a case where someone falsely claimed to be a missing person, a spokesman said.

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Journalist shot dead in Northern Ireland rioting on eve of Good Friday -- Police say dissident republican group New IRA most likely responsible for fatal shooting in Londonderry. The small group rejects the 1998 Good Friday agreement that marked the IRA's embrace of a political solution to 'The Troubles' that claimed more than 3,700 lives.

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Couple who tortured 12 children in their California home are sentenced to life -- David and Louise Turpin were sentenced after pleading guilty to torture and other abuse and neglect so severe that it left two of their daughters unable to bear children.

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New NAFTA will have positive but small impact on U.S. economy, study finds -- The forecast of economic benefits gives some ammunition to the USMCA's proponents. But experts said the relatively small size of the forecasted benefits means that skeptics of the deal will probably not feel any added pressure to vote yes.

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Alberta wilderness is the backdrop of upcoming zombie survival game Dead Matter -- Dead Matter is a zombie survival game set in Alberta, designed by local programmer Nikolas Zorko.

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This woman asked Trudeau about Islamophobia. Then the online hate began -- After Rubab Qureshi took part in Daughters of the Vote, which welcomes 338 young women to a mock session of Parliament, she faced an onslaught of "racist rhetoric" that left her fearful for her life.

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Halifax taxi driver testifies that sexual touching of female passenger 'didn't happen' -- During his retrial Thursday, former taxi driver Bassam Al-Rawi denied ever touching the complainant sexually and said he believed she took off her own pants.

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Royson James: Doug Ford's transit consultant once argued against relief line and Scarborough subway -- The transit consultant advising Doug Ford's provincial government once described Toronto as a "graveyard of badly conceived subway schemes."

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Tanya Talaga: Let Amy Owen's legacy be the safeguarding of other kids in care -- There are many more Amys in the child welfare system right now who we do not know about. We often only find out about them once it is too late, Tanya Talaga writes.

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Thomas Walkom: How Venezuela is impacting Canada's relations with Cuba -- The Canadian government's behaviour toward Venezuela grossly contradicts its position on Cuba — Canada opposes sanctions against Cuba while levelling them against Venezuela.

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Elon Musk, SEC granted court delay in talks over disputed tweets -- Elon Musk and the Securities and Exchange Commission have until April 25 to resolve the SEC's claim that Musk should be held in contempt for breaching a policy requiring certain tweets to be preapproved by Tesla's lawyers.

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Tiger's back, and that's good news for other troubled brands -- Marketing experts explain why sometimes investing in a tarnished brand is so important. Just ask Nike after Tiger Woods incredible Masters win

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Debate grows over likely effects of Trump's North American trade deal -- The U.S. International Trade Commission said the new North American treaty would have a limited positive impact, boosting U.S. gross domestic product by 0.35% over time and adding 176,000 jobs.

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As Vancouver fights over 4-20, Seattle's Hempfest enjoys tolerance, some support -- Park Board Commissioner John Irwin's colleagues have refused to issue a permit to 4-20, but the city and police have not swooped in to shut down 4-20 either, and instead are taking steps to maintain public safety during the massive gathering.

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Pot supply not the problem behind cannabis industry growing pains -- Weed woes and shortages on the shelves mainly down to delays in processing, packaging, shipping, scheduling, "all that boring stuff," experts say.

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Vancouver Mayor says 4/20 show will go on despite park board urging organizers to cancel hip hop headliners -- Last year's 4/20 festival attracted about 40,000 people to Sunset Beach, defying Park Board regulations requiring permits for large events.

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Less has turned out to be more for Raptors big man Serge Ibaka -- Centre's minutes were down as his role kept changing during season, but Ibaka's production was up.

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TAKEAWAYS: Auston Matthews finally wins a goal review -- The review came at a pivotal time -- a scoreless tie in the third period of a series that was knotted at two games apiece. Now the Leafs have the advantage.

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The key for Toronto against Boston is more of the same -- The Leafs turned the possession game in their favour in a Game 4 loss.

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Vlad Guerrero plays the Blue Jays call-up game at a big-league level -- Ready? No question, but the Jays' top prospect says he's content to wait as long as it takes to make his major-league debut.

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Looking for a rental deal in Toronto? You might want to try The Bridle Path -- As the luxury housing market cools, high-end properties are being listed for rent — such as this five-bedroom, 6,000-square-foot mansion asking $6,000 a month, roughly the cost of two basic two-bedroom apartments downtown.

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Realtors oppose mandatory sharing of offers among competing home buyers -- The association says buyers and sellers should be allowed to choose whether to share the details of competing offers.

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Canada should revisit mortgage rules as housing cools, CIBC says -- While the new rules had the desired effect of improving overall credit quality, it has also led more borrowers into the unregulated sector for financing, resulting in a significant market-share increase for alternative lenders, says deputy chief economist Benjamin Tal.

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A leak at an oilsands plant released toxins into the air. So why did authorities wait 12 hours to warn the nearby town? -- Insiders say the incident in Alberta is an example of how pressure and lobbying from industry and economic interests are trumping science and strong oversight, putting public health and safety at risk.

11 days ago

After Facebook banned Faith Goldy and white nationalist groups, accounts and ads in their name remained -- Faith Goldy, the Canadian Nationalist Front, Wolves of Odin, and Canadian Infidels were all banned Monday by Facebook but barely a day later reporters found 12 pages, groups, and Instagram accounts using similar names and posting similar content.

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Ontario's vaccination coverage is not what you think. Here are the rates from Toronto to Ottawa that have experts worried -- Toronto's vaccination coverage was among the lowest in the province last school year. To prevent a measles outbreak, it's 'nowhere near the level we need for herd immunity.'

14 days ago

Panama Papers helps recover more than $1.6B around the world -- Canada's Revenue Agency has released its first figures, saying it has assessed $14.9 million in tax and fines from audits into Canadians in the Panama Papers,

16 days ago

Ontario should scrap its ban on pharma kickbacks to even playing field, independent pharmacies say -- Independent pharmacies say a change is necessary if Ford government decides to allow pharmacy chains to sell their own in-house prescription drugs.

17 days ago

29 minutes inside Barry and Honey Sherman's home: Who was the visitor? -- While the Shermans lay dead in the basement pool room of their Toronto home a lone man went in and out of their house three times, according to an account of security camera footage seized by Toronto police.

26 days ago

Private cargo ship brings Easter feast, Canadian treats to space station -- Canada's David Saint-Jacques and American astronaut Anne McClain used the station's robotic arm, Canadarm 2, to capture Northrop Grumman's Cygnus capsule as they soared 415 kilometres above France.

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Flooding, climate change force Quebecers to rethink relationship with water -- Rivers across Quebec are being monitored closely and authorities say they fear water levels over the weekend could rise as high as they did in the spring of 2017, when thousands of homes were flooded around the Montreal area.

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Men's beards carry more germs than dog fur, according to science -- All of the men tested in a new Swiss study, who were aged from 18 to 76, had high counts of bacteria in their beards.

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Pat Mastroianni, a.k.a. Joey Jeremiah, celebrates the early years with Degrassi Palooza -- Three-day event in June is a way to give kudos to the 1980s and '90s cast and say thanks to the fans.

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'I knew I was going to die,' she says. Now Jaclyn Goman is a sober party girl — and a force for good -- New charity gala benefitting Sunnybrook is woman's way of giving back after getting the help she badly needed battling her addictions.

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How to grab an audience by the lapels -- Old Stock is meant to put a human face on the refugee experience.

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I want things to work with my wife, but my adult stepdaughter is getting between us: Ask Ellie -- A difficult, dependent adult child can certainly sour a couple's otherwise-happy union. Yet it's a terribly stressful situation when one parent feels forced to choose between a child and a spouse, writes Ellie.

21 hours ago

Dating Diaries: An immediate connection over dinner leads to flowers and romance -- Walter and I had had an immediate connection. We were both highly interested in what the other had to say. He later said he had found me beautiful, which nobody has said to me before.

13 hours ago

Ask the Kit: What's the ultimate revenge outfit? -- Fashion is powerful, but it is not sorcery, you should choose your garment based off what makes you feel powerful, advises The Kit's editor at large.

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Ayahna Cornish-Lowry on her Raptors playoffs rituals -- Ayahna Cornish-Lowry, an accomplished basketball player in her own right, is a courtside mainstay at Toronto Raptors games, though she's swapped her running shoes for a pair of sky-high studded Louboutins. "All I need to get camera-ready is eyeliner," says Cornish-Lowry, whose go-to pick is NARS Kohliner in Minorque.

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Chloe Wilde teaches us how to let go of period shame -- Rather than feeling shame or embarrassment, we should feel proud of our bodies for being able to do what they have done for thousands of years as a fundamental part of life, writes Chloe Wilde for the Kit.

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