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The contract marks an important step in ENC's expansion into the Canadian market. With over 50 years of manufacturing experience and more than 500 million miles of transit service completed on the AXESS platform, the selection reflects the RCMP's confidence in ENC's field-tested quality, reliability, and ability to deliver on an expedited timeline,

Speaking from working right now in the middle of our flu season, where we haven't been able to handle a surge in acute care need anywhere in Canada it seems, I would be concerned going forward about having a surge in need for hospital resources, said Varner, CMAJ's deputy editor and an emergency doctor in downtown Toronto, in an interview with CBC News.

Our identity has really been changed in Little Jamaica and it's all due to the Metrolinx construction for the last 16 years,

The new Ontario Line will include protective barriers at all stations to separate platforms from the tracks, something the Toronto Transit Commission has been considering adding to its subway system for years. "Platform edge doors" will be a part of all 15 stations on the 15.6-kilometre downtown subway line, slated to open in 2031, city staff said at a budget meeting Wednesday. The doors are transparent barriers that open to allow riders inside when trains roll in, but otherwise keep people, animals and debris off the tracks.

In 2014, Leon opened his brewery's first location inside a tiny warehouse space in the city's north-east. It was good timing. All over North America, millennials were going crazy for craft beer, and in Alberta, the government had recently changed rules to help microbreweries get their product to market. "There was a huge thirst in Alberta for craft beer," said Leon, who recalls getting emails about new breweries opening nearly every week. "It was a pretty wild time."

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that his country will slash its 100% import tax on Chinese EVs to just 6.1%, paving the way for companies like Geely, BYD, Xiaomi, and others to establish a second foothold in the North American automotive market. Canada is not going all-in on Chinese EVs, though. The country will initially cap annual imports at 49,000 vehicles. That cap will slowly increase to about 70,000 in around five years, according to the Associated Press.

WestJet is cancelling a new seat configuration that squeezed an extra row on board many of its planes and left passengers with less legroom. In a message to staff obtained by The Canadian Press, the airline's vice-president of inflight operations says executives made the costly decision to return the cabins to their previous layout following feedback from employees and customers amid a major backlash to the tighter arrangement.

Residents in the Greater Toronto Area are digging themselves out and going back to their regular weekday schedules a day after a major snowstorm. About two to four centimetres of snowfall is expected throughout the region, including Peel, York and Durham, according to Environment Canada. Flurries are forecasted to start in the afternoon and end close to midnight.

"It would be prudent for market observers to resist the temptation to trace a line from the end of 2025 into 2026," said CREA senior economist Shaun Cathcart in a statement. "We continue to expect sales to move higher again as we get closer to the spring, rejoining the upward trend that was observed throughout the spring, summer and early fall of last year."

British Columbia's Forests Ministry has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese government to boost research, development and promotion of modern wood construction in creating green buildings in China. The five-year agreement, which is not legally binding, also involves the federal Department of Natural Resources and is among the first reached with Beijing after the arrival of Prime Minister Mark Carney in China this week.

The City of Toronto's 2026 budget offers relief many homeowners were looking for in its property tax increase, but it also lays bare the massive amount of infrastructure work hanging over the city in the coming years which, in some cases, may be deferred. With budget season now in full swing at city hall, several city departments will sit in front of the budget committee this week to give presentations on their financial needs this year. Among them will be the parks and recreation department, which is caught up in a nearly $2 billion deferral of work in the 10-year capital plan, which is the city's plan to maintain, renew and grow infrastructure. That work was supposed to be funded by development charges that builders pay to the city, but recent provincial legislation made it so developers could pay those fees once their buildings are occupied, as opposed to when they get their building permits. The change means the city will receive that revenue years later than under the previous rules, so the work it would fund has to be put off, according to city budget documents.

"Affordability isn't about keeping costs down, it's about keeping people in their homes," Chow said. "When we invest in keeping people housed, we're making Toronto more affordable for everyone and we're preventing the far greater cost of homelessness. We're making sure that one bad month or one medical emergency or layoff doesn't destroy the entire family," she added.

An Ontario man has reached a settlement agreement with Boeing almost seven years after six of his family members died in a plane crash. It comes just days after a U.S. wrongful death trial began for the family in Chicago over the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 plane in 2019. The flight heading to Kenya crashed shortly after takeoff from the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, resulting in the deaths of all 157 people, including 18 Canadians, on board.

A Toronto court is hearing from one of the people who signed on to supervise a man accused of laundering funds for an international drug ring if he is released on bail. The woman, whose identity is covered by a publication ban, is taking the stand as Rolan Sokolovski's bail hearing enters its second day. Sokolovski is one of several Canadians arrested for extradition to the United States last fall as part of an investigation into Ryan Wedding,

Provincial police say two people are in hospital and part of Highway 400 is closed after a three-vehicle collision in Bradford, Ont., early Tuesday. The crash, which involved a tractor trailer and two passenger vehicles, happened on the highway near County Road 88 just before 4 a.m., Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said in a video posted on social media.

Air Canada Rouge Flight 1502 was taxiing toward the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport when Caron noticed flight attendants frantically running down the aisle of the cabin. The plane eventually came to a halt before reaching the runway and Caron looked out the window. We could see the crew gathering around the plane, so we knew something was happening, she said. Then, the pilot tells us that there is someone from the crew in the luggage hold.

Police west of Toronto say they are looking for suspects after eight high-end vehicles were stolen in an overnight break-in at an Oakville, Ont., leasing business. Halton police say they were called to Lockwood Leasing, in the area of South Service Road W. and Fourth Line, around 3:35 a.m. on Sunday. They say the front window was smashed while the building was unoccupied and suspects accessed a lock box that contained car keys.

Provincial police are renewing their appeal for information in the case of Elnaz Hajtamiri, four years after the Ontario woman was abducted and never heard from again. Hajtamiri was 37 years old when she was abducted by three suspects from a home on Trailwood Place in Wasaga Beach on Jan. 12, 2022. Despite several arrests in that case and a previous attack on Hajtamiri, she has never been found and is presumed dead.