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On Football analyzes the biggest topics in the NFL from week to week. For more On Football analysis, head here. The NFL didn’t need a popularity boost before Travis Kelce became enchanted with Taylor Swift. They’ll gladly welcome millions of Swifties to watch this love story unfold. The biggest news that came out of Week 3 wasn’t Tua Tagovailoa and the Miami Dolphins lighting up the scoreboard against Denver with only the fourth 70-point performance in NFL history. It wasn’t Arizona shocking Dallas, Houston upsetting Jacksonville or Matt Gay kicking four 50-yard field goals to help Indianapolis knock off Baltimore.…

Air Canada pilots are demonstrating at Toronto’s Pearson airport today, calling for better wages and working conditions as talks with the country’s biggest carrier continue. The Air Line Pilots Association kick-started the bargaining process in June, one day after fellow union members at WestJet ratified a new collective agreement. The union represents more than 5,000 Air Canada pilots. Both union and employer say the so-called informational picket at Terminal 1, which comes the same day their own nine-year deal expires, will not affect Air Canada’s flight schedule. Charlene Hudy, who heads the union’s Air Canada contingent, says the agreement has…

Adil Shamji is dropping out of the race for leader of the Ontario Liberals and will support Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie instead. “From the very beginning, I have known that with four spectacular candidates in the race and myself, only one can come out as leader of our party. Today, I acknowledge that this leader will not be me,” Shamji said in a statement on Thursday, announcing his withdrawal from the contest. The MPP for Don Valley East announced in July he would add his name to the ballot to run for leader of the party, with a platform focusing…

A visit to the Toronto Zoo may just be what the doctor ordered. A newly launched initiative will see regulated healthcare professionals prescribing their patients a visit to the Toronto Zoo as part of their mental and physical wellness needs. Launched on Sept. 27, it is the result of a partnership between the zoo and PaRx, an initiative of the BC Parks Foundation that has seen more than 11,000 healthcare providers give so-called “nature prescriptions” to their patients since 2020. The Toronto Zoo is the first facility of this kind in Canada to take part in this program. Patients who…

OTTAWA – The federal government is coping with cyberattacks this week, as a hacker group in India claims it has sowed chaos in Ottawa – but Canada’s signals-intelligence agency says the “nuisance” attacks likely haven’t put private information at risk. The attacks seem to have hit institutions controlled by the government, but not the core infrastructure from which federal departments and agencies operate. The Canadian Armed Forces says its website became unavailable to mobile users midday Wednesday, but was fixed within a few hours. The military said the site is separate from government servers used by the Department of Defence…

Black and Indigenous communities are three-and-a-half times more likely to experience food insecurity and poverty. The staggering statistic is from a new report by Food Banks Canada that takes a deep dive into the growing hunger crisis in the country. “I’m tired of having to say that we are at the highest level of food bank use in Canadian history but unfortunately, we keep breaking this record,” said Kirstin Beardsley, CEO of Food Banks Canada. This new report paints an unequal picture of those more likely to experience poverty. They include Indigenous people, racialized people, transgender people, those with disabilities and…

Health Canada has approved the use of the updated Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty vaccine for those six months of age and older. The federal agency provided an update on the mRNA vaccine, which is formulated for the XBB.1.5 lineage of the Omicron variant, on Thursday. Health Canada received a submission from Pfizer-BioNTech on June 29, 2023. “After a thorough and independent review of the evidence, Health Canada has determined that the vaccine meets the Department’s stringent safety, efficacy and quality requirements,” the federal agency states on its website. It is the second vaccine approved by Health Canada that targets the subvariant. Earlier…

Kris Jenner revealed during the Season 4 premiere of “The Kardashians” Thursday that she once blocked her long-time boyfriend Corey Gamble from appearing in the hit Paramount show “Yellowstone.” Jenner, 67, claimed that she forced Gamble, 42, to turn down the role in the Kevin Costner-led series once she learned that the role might contain some romantic scenes. The revelation came while the matriarch and two of her daughters, Khloé and Kim Kardashian, grabbed dinner with Gamble in Cabo San Luca. “I’m so excited to watch the next episode of ‘Yellowstone,’” announced Jenner to the table. “If it wasn’t for…

How do you cook a meal when a staple ingredient is unaffordable? This question is playing out in households around the world as they face shortages of essential foods like rice, cooking oil and onions. That is because countries have imposed restrictions on the food they export to protect their own supplies from the combined effect of the war in Ukraine, El Nino’s threat to food production and increasing damage from climate change. For Caroline Kyalo, a 28-year-old who works in a salon in Kenya’s capital of Nairobi, it was a question of trying to figure out how to cook…

High school teachers in Ontario have accepted the Ford government’s binding arbitration proposal, ending the threat of a possible strike for at least the next three years. The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation says it’s members voted “overwhelmingly” to enter into a proposal to continue bargaining with the Ontario government until October 27, and if no deal is reached all remaining issues would be settled by binding arbitration. The approved proposal means there will be no strikes or lockouts during this round of bargaining.null OSSTF President Karen Littlewood says the proposal gives the union an opportunity to bypass traditional bargaining…