Toronto Times - Urban Canadian Living

Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, internationally renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending and imperfectly veiled snob whose evolving character has delighted audiences over seven decades, has died.…
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Some foreign nationals began evacuating from a Red Sea port in Sudan on Saturday, even as airstrikes again rocked the capital, Khartoum, after a week of fighting between rival commanders that has killed hundreds of civilians across the…
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German automaker Volkswagen was in the city of St. Thomas, Ont., this week, announcing details of their plan to build their first electric battery plant in North America, in a move that backers say will super charge Southern Ontario into…
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The United States has launched a crackdown on so-called Chinese police stations operating on its soil using a legal mechanism that doesn't exist in Canada, at least not yet — a registry of foreign agents.U.S. authorities this week announced…
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Canada's apparent unwillingness (or inability) to meet NATO's defence spending target has not dented the country's reputation among its allies, one of the country's former top diplomats told MPs recently.But the longer the war between…
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Weeks after what may turn out to be the actual song of the summer dropped on streaming platforms, then exploded on TikTok, we're no closer to finding out who made it, exactly how or why.The mystery surrounding it is based around a…
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The Current23:09New documentary looks at the fearless writing of Judy BlumeRead transcribed audioDavina Pardo can still remember where she sat as a kid, in Toronto, reading Judy Blume's books."We had a chair, a reading chair on a landing in…
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In the early morning hours of April 6, the congregation of the Islamic Society of Markham began trickling into their mosque for dawn prayers. Suddenly, a non-Muslim man drove into the parking lot at high speed, almost running over one…
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Breadcrumb Trail Links News Economy Scotiabank chief economist says downturn could jostle economy into more normal, productive future Get the latest from Stephanie Hughes straight to your inbox Sign Up Scotiabank chief…
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Photo by Jacquie Reimer There’s been something of a crisis in cosmology. A few years ago, researchers started taking measurements that disagreed with our standard understanding of how the universe expands, meaning they were in conflict…
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