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By Kierstin Williams / APTN News

By The Canadian Press. Don’t forget to vote!

The province said it’s focused on “maintaining stability for taxpayers” and the “postponement does not have a financial impact on municipalities.” (By Kenyon Wallace, Diana Zlomislic / Toronto Star)

Non paywall link: https://archive.ph/2023.07.25-023057/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-launches-review-of-tdsb-handling-of-allegations-from-principal/

The Ontario secret trial came to light last week, when the province’s Court of Appeal ruled publicly on the accused person’s appeal of their conviction and sentence.

(COLIN PERKEL/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

OPINION: A new report calculates how much you’d have to make per hour to afford rent. The result is an indictment of all levels of government

DriveTest.ca website even says the camera shouldn't be used for assisting, but this guy seems to want her to look at the tracing drawn by the rear camera to calculate the positioning and the turns she's supposed to make. That sounds crazy to me. Should she look for another instructor? She was recommended this one by colleagues in her ESL school. This is for the G2 road test by the way.

Edit: I get that it's useful to have the camera, but I guess what you are missing is that she's not learning how to do it, she knows, she wants to know how to do it in the way the G2 tester expects her to do it.

(Ian Bailey / The Globe and Mail)

(Jordan Fleguel / CP24)

Great essay by Scrimshaw on the state of play in the OLP. It’s likely they won’t survive another election if they continue with their internal delusions.

Darlington station is more than halfway through a $12.8-billion overhaul to refurbish all four of its reactors by the end of 2026 (MATTHEW MCCLEARN / The Globe and Mail)

Started reading up on this after receiving a jury summons and this list of minor offences that will not get you off the hook is fascinating! For example:

Possessing reproductive materials of cetaceans, except for licensed scientific research – Section 445.2(2)(c)

So… that whale penis they found in your fridge is not gonna cut it then? You must still serve on the jury?

(Katherine DeClerq / CTV News)

Rice Group CEO Michael Rice seeks to block or delay summons (Ryan Patrick Jones / CBC News)

The federal government webpage says a fungus called Bretziella fagacearum causes oak wilt.

It says red oak trees are especially vulnerable and can be killed in a single season.

Teenagers can ride transit for free on weekdays after 6 p.m. and all day on weekends, while seniors can ride for free everyday at any time. [Durring August]

MPAC says multiple third-party reviews have already found the agency’s “process is both transparent and fair.” (By Diana Zlomislic & Kenyon Wallace / Toronto Star)

olice in Brockville, Ont., say a large fire broke out at a motorcycle gang clubhouse near the city core early Monday morning, causing damage to multiple other buildings.

Elsewhere in eastern Ontario, three people were sent to hospital on Saturday night after an altercation involving rival motorcycle gangs in Cornwall ended with a shooting, according to police there.