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While construction begins on the newest subway lines across Toronto, the future of the key Line 2 that carries residents east and west of the city is up in the air. The trains currently operating from Kipling to Kennedy are close to the end of their useful life, with the oldest ones having been in operation for 27 years. The price to replace them is expected to be $2.5-$3 billion based on last estimates for 80 new trains plus more needed for an extended Line 1. However, a delay in securing the required funding is stopping them from being able…

Mumbai Police on Thursday night released a terrorist email threatening to blow up the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, where the prime minister and several ICC Men's Cricket World Cup matches are scheduled, unless the Indian government pays 500 million rupees. received. and release notorious gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. The email also noted that the terrorist group had already deployed personnel to carry out the attack. A case has already been registered against Khalistani leader Gurpatwant Singh Panun who threatened to attack the World Cup matches. He had also threatened to take revenge for Shahid Nijjar's assassination three weeks earlier.dig deeper…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed deep concern for civilians, urging them to exercise utmost restraint and “all diplomatic efforts to avoid widespread conflagration.”Dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries continued to be reported throughout the day, including from rocket fire by Palestinian militants in Israeli cities and Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip.The United Nations Security Council has decided to hold emergency consultations at UN Headquarters in New York at 3pm on Sunday to discuss the crisis. Deadly earthquake hits AfghanistanA major earthquake struck Herat, Afghanistan early Saturday, killing at least 100 people and triggering a series of rescue…

Just after releasing a new album, Drake announced he plans to step away from the spotlight for an extended period of time to focus on his health. The artist was a guest on the “Table for One” on SiriusXM’s Sound 42 Friday morning, where he said “I probably won’t make music for a little bit.” “I need to focus on my health, first and foremost. … Nothing crazy, but just, like, you know, I want people to be healthy in life,” Drake explained. He added that the issues were related to his stomach. “I need to focus on my health,…

Turkey season has consumers searching for ways to save ahead of Thanksgiving weekend with a crucial question lingering – where can I buy the cheapest turkey? With Canadians’ pockets pinched by high prices, the federal government pledged to take action, announcing that Loblaws, Metro, Empire, Walmart and Costco would lower grocery prices in the coming weeks. In the meantime, CTV News Toronto went on a turkey hunt to eight grocery stores in Toronto to find the cheapest bird. To level the playing field, we focused on the generic brand sold at nearly every store, Butterball, and zeroed in on fresh…

VAUGHAN, Ont. – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government has reached an agreement with Vaughan, Ont., to fast-track the building of more than 1,700 new housing units. Trudeau says the government will also incentivize thousands more homes over the next three years. The agreement with Vaughan has been made under the national housing accelerator fund, a $4-billion program first announced in the spring 2022 federal budget, but for which applications weren’t accepted until July. The federal government says the agreement will provide more than $59 million to Vaughan to eliminate barriers to building housing. Trudeau says it will…

People using diabetes drugs such as Ozempic for weight loss are at higher risk of pancreatitis, bowel obstruction and stomach paralysis compared to those who use another medication approved specifically for obesity management, a University of British Columbia study suggests. Researchers examined a random sample of health insurance claim records of 16 million patients in the United States between 2006 and 2020 for use of semaglutide drugs, the active ingredient in Ozempic and other medications, as well as liraglutide, in Victoza. null The study, published Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), excluded patients with diabetes. It compared…

Drivers in the GTA will be giving thanks for less expensive gas as prices at the pumps are expected to fall to their lowest level since May. Roger McKnight, Chief Petroleum Analyst at En-Pro International, tells CityNews that prices are expected to fall six cents on Friday, to an average price of 149.9 cents/litre at most GTA stations. The price drop comes ahead of the Thanksgiving long weekend, as drivers head to family gatherings, hit the road to see the fall foliage, travel to the cottage a final time before closing it up for the winter, or just drive around…

TORONTO – Months after artificial intelligence luminaries began ringing alarm bells about the technology’s risks, one of the field’s pioneers says he feels like people are listening. “I’m optimistic that people understood that there’s this whole bunch of problems,” Geoffrey Hinton said at a talk AI financier Radical Ventures hosted at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto on Wednesday. “I am quite optimistic that people are listening.” For the bulk of the year, the British-Canadian computer scientist who won the A.M. Turing Award, known as the Nobel Prize of computing, in 2018 with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun, has been…

It appears that Toronto residents will finally have to trade in their beach umbrellas for the regular kind as a stretch of summer-like fall weather comes to an end. A week of record-breaking warm weather in Toronto is set to be followed by a stretch of rainy and colder days starting with a change in weather Thursday evening. A mix of sun and cloud is expected in the city today with a high of 26 C, but there is a 40 per cent chance of rain tonight. “We have a lot more cloud around. Mainly cloudy still, very warm and…