Toronto Star
GTA braces for another blast of winter
Environment Canada has issued a winter storm watch after the fourth of a series of snow systems is expected to pummel the GTA sometime today, narrowly missing Toronto and Peel Region.
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Boy, 5, dies in Oakville townhouse fire
A fire claimed the life of a 5-year-old boy in Oakville this morning.
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Snow survival 'miracle'
A 55-year-old woman who went missing Friday during a blizzard that buried southern Ontario is in critical condition in a Hamilton hospital, where she is undergoing treatment for hypothermia.
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Harper blasted for Senate picks
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has tapped the ranks of card-carrying Conservatives and others sympathetic to his agenda to fill 18 Senate vacancies, a move critics blasted as an abuse of power at a time when opposition parties are threatening to topple the minority government.
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Notes of solace comfort the dying
Christine Ichiyen walks up to the hospital room door and gives it a light tap tap tap. She waits only a moment, then peers into the room and smiles.
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Language called health care barrier
A significant number of immigrants, including many newcomers to Toronto, say they are ill because they can't speak English well enough to tell anyone, a doctor who advocates for immigrant health reveals in the current Canadian Journal of Public Health .
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Sally Van gives 'bit of hope'
Just like it does every night of the year, the "Sally Van" begins its journey from Salvation Army headquarters in Scarborough with dozens of meals, bags of donated clothes and a little prayer.
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Learning to live 'with a different heart'
Parents of two young men killed six months ago struggle with loss.
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Weathering a tragic milestone
She is Angelina Mighty-Osborne and few people come by their name more honestly than this teenager.
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Questioning of Prophet's existence stirs outcry
A noted Muslim scholar has provoked a huge controversy in Europe by openly questioning the existence of the Prophet Muhammad.
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