Customers may notice takeout containers, straws and other items being swapped for greener alternatives in the new year as Canada’s food service industry adjusts to the phase-in of a federal law that aims to eventually remove many single-use plastics from the market altogether. Some restaurants have already gone through months of trial and error in
Canada With cancelled flights and stranded passengers, Sunwing has been all over the news during the holidays for all the wrong reasons. One story of how a group of Quebecers got back to Canada, however, will make you do a double take. Dan Spector has the story.
Albert Wallace said he was “very fortunate” to have survived the Second World War after being shot down behind enemy lines and placed in the prison camp made famous for ‘The Great Escape’ of allied troops – although he didn’t know it at the time. The Toronto-born veteran was shot down over Germany on May
Two Brampton residents have been charged in a fail to remain collision involving a stolen cargo van last summer that left a 39-year-old cyclist dead. Early in the morning on Aug. 1, 39-year-old Paul De Pledge was biking to work on Summerlea Road, near Walker Drive in Brampton when a large black trailer being hauled
TORONTO — A series of proposed class-action lawsuits launched against major insurance companies in Ontario claim the firms have been shortchanging auto-accident victims for years by breaking rules that govern payouts. Statements of claimed filed in the suits allege the companies did not pay or reimburse HST on benefits in some cases and included HST
A male motorcyclist has suffered serious injuries in a Brampton crash on Tuesday night. The collision took place in the area of Sandalwood Parkway East and Rattlesnake Road at around 9 p.m. Peel Regional Police said the crash involved a motorcycle and a vehicle. The motorcyclist was taken from the scene to a trauma centre
A motorcyclist is dead after being involved in a wrong-way collision on a Highway 401 on-ramp while possibly fleeing police. According to the Special Investigations Unit, a Toronto Police Service officer in a marked cruiser attempted to pull over the motorcycle while it travelled westbound on Highway 401 at around 5:30 p.m. The SIU says
With cancelled flights and stranded passengers, Sunwing has been all over the news during the holidays for all the wrong reasons. One story of how a group of Quebecers got back to Canada, however, will make you do a double take.After being stranded for days in the Dominican Republic, they were able to get home
Canada‘s requirement of a negative COVID-19 test of travellers from China will not help in preventing new variants or the spread of the virus, say experts. Kerry Bowman, assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine, called the requirement “absolutely a political move, and not based on science at this point.” Read
Canada is facing a housing crisis — the number of homes needed in the country keeps growing but not the number of people needed to build those homes. As homebuilders and policymakers grapple with this problem, some may find answers in “prefabricated” houses, according to experts. “Prefabricated (or prefab) housing is a form of housing