Month: July 2024

One school division in Manitoba is banning cellphones from the classroom.

Hurricane Beryl ripped off roofs in Jamaica, jumbled fishing boats in Barbados and damaged or destroyed 95% of homes on a pair of islands in St. Vincent and the Grenadines before rumbling toward the Cayman Islands and taking aim at Mexico’s Caribbean coast after leaving at least seven dead in its wake.

The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says home sales in June declined 16.4 per cent from last year, with many potential buyers staying on the sidelines despite the highly anticipated Bank of Canada interest rate cut.

Six families were forced out onto the street after a fire ignited in their condo building in Longueuil.

All Toronto-bound lanes of the QEW have been closed in Beamsville following a collision involving a pedestrian.

French billionaire Xavier Niel is building a ChatGPT competitor with a ‘thick French accent’  FortuneBillionaire Niel’s Voice AI Takes on ChatGPT With French Accent  BNN Bloomberg

Giant salamander-like fossil unearthed in Namibia  The Washington PostGiant stem tetrapod was apex predator in Gondwanan late Palaeozoic ice age  Nature.comFangs and toilet seat-shaped head: giant salamander-like fossil found in Namibia  The GuardianThis Bigheaded Fossil Turned Up in a Place No One Expected to Find It  The New York Times280 million-year-old swamp monster with ‘big, flat toilet seat-shaped head’ discovered in Namibia  Livescience.com

Rookie Alonso Martínez scored a goal in each half and Matt Freese had three saves to lead New York City FC to a 2-0 victory over CF Montreal.

Residents are speaking out after coyote attacks targeting neighbourhood dogs in west Toronto. They say something needs to be done about the danger lurking in their community.