Ukraine keeps up assault on Russian oil infrastructure as Kyiv braces for more strikes
Ukrainian drone strikes caused fires at more Russian oil facilities overnight into Saturday, local Russian officials said, in what appeared to be the latest attack on Moscow’s vital oil industry .
Authorities in Russia’s Rostov region said falling drone debris sparked a fire that damaged an oil depot and tanker in the port of Taganrog, while officials in the neighboring Krasnodar region reported a fire breaking out at an oil depot in Armavir for the same reason. “Another facility of Russia’s oil industry has been reached — Armavir,
Man, 30, dead after falling from a clifftop north of Toronto
A 30-year-old Ontario man is dead after falling from a clifftop in the Osprey Heights area of Clearview Township, north of Toronto.
Ontario Provincial Police say emergency crews were dispatched to the west end of Osprey Heights Road, near Collingwood, shortly after 3 p.m. Friday, following reports that someone had fallen a significant distance from a cliff edge.
Police say efforts were made to save the man’s life, but he was pronounced deceased at the scene.
Police say they are still investigating
Fire forces early morning evacuation at Fairmont Royal York hotel
A two-alarm fire briefly forced the evacuation of a downtown hotel on Saturday morning.
Fire crews were called to the Fairmont Royal York on Front Street just before 5:30 a.m. following reports of a fire inside a laundry chute.
Fire officials say the hotel was safely evacuated and that the fire is now under control. No injuries have been reported.
“At about five this morning, the alarms started that there was an issue in the building. At about 5:40, they said
DVP, Gardiner and transit closures to affect commuters and concertgoers
Commuters and concertgoers will need to pack their patience and plan ahead this weekend as the closure of two main traffic arteries and several transit routes will make it challenging to get in and out of the downtown core.
The annual We Walk UHNited event is taking place on Saturday, which will see the following road closures from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.:
- Elizabeth Street will be closed from College Street to Dundas Street West (closure starts at 5 a.m.)
- Dundas Street West will be closed
Dead humpback whale brought to shore in Denmark with autopsy set next week
ANHOLT, Denmark (AP) — The carcass of a humpback whale, whose life and death captivated Germans for months as the mammal became repeatedly stranded in the Baltic Sea, was dragged Saturday onto a Danish beach after two weeks of the body languishing in shallow waters.
The whale had gained the nicknames “Timmy” and “Hope” as German media outlets sent push alerts and updated live blogs with the status of its health since it was first spotted off the German coast on March 3.
The whale was found dead on
WHO chief lands in eastern Congo’s Ituri province, epicenter of Ebola, as outbreak outpaces response
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization on Saturday visited eastern Congo’s Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola , where the virus is spreading faster than the response despite better-organized health facilities and new aid arrivals.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to visit a treatment center and meet local authorities, health workers and affected families in Bunia.
“The best way to address this is to provide all the necessary support to fight the disease at
Ottawa under increasing pressure to show how policy changes are affecting emissions
OTTAWA — The federal government is facing increased pressure to state whether it knows how some of its recent policy changes will affect Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin was peppered with questions on the issue at a parliamentary committee hearing on Thursday.
Bloc Québécois MP Patrick Bonin pressed Dabrusin on whether the government had modelling to show how it plans to lower emissions, considering the amount of climate policy rollbacks over the past year.
“Do you have an expert, or anyone who can show us
Immigration lawyers say automation is partly driving a massive Federal Court backlog
OTTAWA — The number of immigration cases being brought to Federal Court has more than quadrupled since 2020 — and some immigration lawyers are linking the surge in part to the federal government’s use of artificial intelligence and automation to clear visa application backlogs.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada insists that technology is not to blame and that multiple factors are driving the boom in legal challenges of the department’s decisions.
About 6,400 immigration cases were brought to Federal Court in 2020,
Canada Post workers set to wrap up voting on new tentative deal
Postal workers are set to wrap up voting on new tentative agreements today after more than two years of labour strife.
Some 55,000 union members began voting April 20 on a five-year contract which includes wage increases of 6.5 per cent and three per cent in the first two years.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says it expects to release results on Monday.
Canada Post and the union have long sparred over wages and structural changes to the postal service, with workers having taken to
Israeli soldiers share rare accounts from Gaza, describing ongoing killings despite the ceasefire
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli combat soldier saw his teammates yelling in celebration, congratulating one another. They had just struck a vehicle of Palestinians driving near the Israeli-controlled part of the Gaza Strip , killing everyone inside.
The reservist said scenes like this had become common after a fragile ceasefire took effect in October . In the weeks he was stationed in Gaza, he said, he saw soldiers relishing the chance to go after those who crossed — or came close to crossing — the so-called