Community supporters of the Sheldon Centre for Outdoor Education near Alliston, Ont. are raising concerns that the Toronto District School Board’s (TDSB) budget plan is to cut the centre’s outdoor learning curriculum.

“We’ve had no students here for over a year,” Sharon Edmonds, a member of the Friends of Sheldon said. “We want answers from the Toronto District School Board and we want to know what the plan is with regards to this centre.”

The center, owned and operated by

One person has died after a shooting in downtown Hamilton on Thursday night, according to police.

Officers say they responded to reports of a shooting at 191 Main West just before 6:30 p.m.

“Upon arrival one male victim was located with injuries consistent with a gunshot and was transported to hospital in critical condition,” police said to CityNews. “They have since been pronounced deceased.”

Police initially said one person has been transported to a hospital with life threatening injuries. Investigators later said

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is arguing that the has already ended because of the ceasefire that began in early April, an interpretation that would allow the White House to avoid the need to seek congressional approval.

The statement laid out by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during testimony in the Senate earlier Thursday, when he said the ceasefire effectively paused the war. Under that rationale, the administration has not yet met the requirement mandated by a 1973 law to seek formal approval from Congress for military action that extends

As the Ontario Northland train service resumes operation later this year, would-be travellers are looking for more information on the fare structure of the train.

Ontario Northland and the province announced the expected launch fares earlier this month with adult tickets ranging between about $50 to nearly $190 depending on the destination and timing of the booking.

“People are already thinking about how they’re going to access it,” said Lucille Frith, co-chair of the Northeastern Ontario Rail Network. She says there

NEW YORK (AP) — A massive, fiery explosion at a house in Queens sent several New York City police officers flying through the air early Thursday morning as they were responding to a call of a man inside armed with a knife and the smell of gas.

Eight officers were treated for minor injuries — including burns and at least one head laceration — after the blast, and all of the people who were inside the building have been accounted for, though several were taken to a hospital, police said.

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EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says a key approval for a cross-border oil pipeline project to deliver more of the province’s crude to the United States is coming after years of advocacy from her government.

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a presidential permit authorizing the Bridger Pipeline expansion, considered a partial revival of the Keystone XL pipeline project.

The Keystone XL pipeline proposal was repeatedly killed and resurrected, and at one point cost Alberta taxpayers $1.3 billion.

Smith says the new joint venture

J. Craig Venter, who mapped the first draft of the human genome and helped scientists understand how genes shape our lives, died Wednesday. He was 79.

Venter’s death was announced by the J. Craig Venter Institute, a genomics research group with locations in La Jolla, California, and Rockville, Maryland. The institute said he died in San Diego after being hospitalized for side effects from a recent cancer treatment.

In the 1990s Venter bet that he could use a different sequencing technique

Approximately 700 unionized TTC employees could be locked out less than a month before Toronto plays host to its opening match of the 2026 World Cup.

The TTC says it was granted a no-board report on Wednesday, which triggers a 17-day period before the transit agency says it would be prepared to lock out members of CUPE Local 2 if a new deal is not reached by May 16.

CUPE Local 2 represents communications, electrical, and signal workers who maintain and repair critical TTC