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After major issues with tenants, these Ontario landlords blame their real estate agents

July 15 , 2025 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • :

Some Ontario landlords say change needs to happen after hiring real estate agents to help them fill rental units, and discovering the contracts they signed guaranteed very little in return. Experts say landlords need to take responsibility when things go wrong.

Wildfire-related power outages have now hit 6 First Nations in northwestern Ontario

July 14 , 2025 at 06:35:42 p.m. EDT • :

Wildfires have damaged six hydro poles in northwestern Ontario, causing outages in as many First Nations, and raising concerns about food spoiling and the impact on the elderly and other vulnerable people.

Andrea Gibson, queer poet whose work unflinchingly probed life and mortality, dead at 49

July 15 , 2025 at 06:20:01 a.m. EDT • :

Andrea Gibson, a celebrated poet and performance artist who through their verse explored gender identity, politics and their experience with terminal ovarian cancer, died Monday at age 49.

Scientists have detected the largest black hole merger yet. What it is and why it matters

July 15 , 2025 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • :

It was a bump in the night. A big one. Astronomers revealed on Monday that two massive black holes collided producing another one that is 225 times the mass of our sun.

This evacuee was 35 weeks pregnant when wildfire destroyed her home. Now she has a healthy newborn daughter

July 15 , 2025 at 06:00:00 a.m. EDT • :

Brooke Kindel was 35 weeks pregnant when a wildfire forced her and hundreds of others to flee Denare Beach, Sask. in May. A month later, with the family still displaced in Saskatoon, Callie was born.

July 14 , 2025 at 08:13:34 p.m. EDT • :

WATCH | #TheMoment a Calgary teen unknowingly sold a hat to Diplo

July 15 , 2025 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • :

Police data shows intimate partner violence calls on the rise in Ontario

July 14 , 2025 at 05:04:48 p.m. EDT • :

Trump's Ukraine weapons pivot shows he's frustrated with Putin. But he's not applying maximum pressure yet

July 15 , 2025 at 05:00:00 a.m. EDT • :

Unsanitary conditions, rooms without locks among 'failures' at shelter sites, says official

July 14 , 2025 at 03:47:03 p.m. EDT • :

Reena Virk's killer has day parole revoked over positive drug tests, 'negative' behaviour

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