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A Parkland County intersection known as the "death trap" or the "devil's intersection" for how many fatal crashes it causes claimed another person's life this week, with residents continuing to push for a redesign. A line of memorials and crosses line the median and ditches surrounding where Range Road 20 and Highway 16A meet west…

A fatal collision on Wednesday temporarily the eastbound lanes of Highway 403 east of Woodstock, according to Ontario Provincial Police. Emergency crews were called to the scene around 2 p.m. “The eastbound lanes only are closed at Oxford Road 55 for a collision investigation involving a commercial motor vehicle and a…

Ninety-year-old David George Bryant moved into Drumlin Hills in the Town of Bridgewater, N.S., nearly a decade ago because his memory was failing.He and his wife would burn their dinners after forgetting them on the stove. So Bryant chose an assisted-living suite at Drumlin Hills while his wife moved into a nearby long-term care home. This way,…

A 28-year-old man is facing more than a dozen charges in connection with three suspected hate incidents in Toronto that saw a taxi driver, as well as a woman wearing a hijab sprayed with a foreign substance and worshippers at a Toronto mosque, attacked with a rock and bike chain, police say. On Saturday, Toronto police…

Nova Scotians continue to share stories of ordeals in the province's hospitals, experiences that lead to consequences more serious than just a long wait for care.Missy Johnson, who lives in Lower Sackville, said her father got into a car accident when he was sent away — despite a fever — from the Cobequid Community Health Centre because the ER…

Biologist Andrew Derocher wasn't thinking of climate change when he first started studying polar bears in Hudson Bay in the 1980s. About a decade into his career, a picture started to emerge: as sea ice diminished due to human-caused global warming, the polar bears he was studying were venturing onto land earlier and returning to the ice later…

Proposed amendments to Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation legislation that will provide bereavement counselling services for families after a fatal workplace accident is making its way through the House of Assembly. If passed, the changes would allow paid bereavement services for surviving dependents for any…

Lisa Tsotsos has been trying to bury her father for eight months now — and as the emotional weight of the ordeal and her legal bills pile up — she says she's starting to lose hope.Her dad, Louis, died of COVID-19 complications on Jan. 15. But instead of being buried next to his father at a Richmond Hill cemetery north of Toronto like he wanted,…

The bailiff who taped an eviction notice to the doors of St. Brigid's says The United People of Canada (TUPC) need to leave the church immediately and the building's locks will soon be changed.Locks at the Rectory Art House next to the church were swapped out on Thursday, so only the owners of the property and the artists who rent from them can…

Missing teen found safe Photo: Contributed UPDATE 10:55 p.m. Central Okanagan Search and Rescue confirms with Castanet the teen has been found. ORIGINAL: 8:06 p.m. Kelowna RCMP are asking the public's help to find a missing 14 year-old.On December 3rd at approximately 5:30 p.m., Kelowna RCMP were alerted of a missing 14-year-old girl…