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  Ontario auditor: at least 99 patients placed in LTC homes without their consent

  At least 99 hospital patients in Ontario have been placed in long-term care homes without their consent, the province's auditor general has found.

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  Timmins lawyer being investigated for misconduct

  An assistant Crown attorney in Timmins is facing a Law Society Tribunal related to allegations of misconduct.

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  Tougher rules likely means fewer international students will come North

  The federal government announced this week that international students who apply for a study permit will need to show they have more than $20,000 to cover their tuition and living expenses.

• Shohei Ohtani watch kicks into higher gear in Toronto as Blue Jays fans track private plane
• One person found dead in Sault fire, police investigating
• Toxic drug summit wraps up in Sudbury
• North Bay police investigating incident that triggered high school lockdown
• 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun seized in Moosonee investigation, 3 charged
• 2 Ontario men charged after allegedly producing recruitment videos for listed terrorist entity
• Province provides $9M to help junior miners find critical minerals
• Infant death in Wawa being investigated by police
• More caffeinated energy drinks pulled from shelves: Here's what was recalled in Canada this week

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• Sudbury businesses brace for return of COVID-19 restrictions Wednesday
• Timmins health official explains concerns around school-related COVID-19 reporting
• Sudbury school bus cancellations continue fifth week in a row
• Another week of cancellations for 14 Sudbury school bus routes

Northern COVID-19 articles

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  One northern Ont. hospital to require masks again starting Monday

  

  Vital Sudbury community resources given more than $100K from the feds
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  North Bay decorator still in court battle over COVID-19 pandemic restraining order

  

  As temperatures drop in the north, COVID-19 cases climb
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  Updated COVID-19 vaccine available next month, Sudbury’s health unit says

  

  Sudbury's COVID assessment centre returns to familiar spot
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  Springer Aerospace to be sold locally, founder says financial worries behind them

  

  COVID-19 delays Sudbury murder trial until Monday
• Sault-area nursing homes involved in COVID-19 study
• North Bay suspends COVID-19 vaccine policy
• North Bay mayor says council can't fund every organization, budget deliberations underway
• One of North Bay’s top doctors tells northerners to mask-up
• COVID-19 outbreak declared at long-term care home in Elliot Lake
• Algoma Public Health warns of increased risk of COVID-19 in the area
• Updated bivalent COVID-19 booster rolling out in northern Ont.
• Ontario court sides with child on vaccination stance
• Northerners were hit worse by the pandemic than rest of Ontario, study finds
• Timmins Chamber of Commerce offers free rapid antigen screening kits for COVID-19
• Heavy rains spark special weather statement for Sudbury, North Bay, Manitoulin
• Northerners weigh in on getting fourth COVID-19 shot

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  Ottawa man fined $10K for northern Ont. fishing violations
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  Ont. woman pleads guilty to defrauding doulas
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  Poll shows Wab Kinew has highest approval rating among Canadian premiers
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  Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame gives Graney award to Buck Martinez
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  Unanimous vote to install menorah and nativity scene at Moncton City Hall

CTV National News

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  Marathon Conservative carbon tax filibuster ends after nearly 30 consecutive hours of House votes
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  Ibrahim Ali found guilty of killing 13-year-old girl in B.C.
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Ottawa

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  Police arrest man on arson charges after fire at Civic Campus ER
• Canada Life apologizes to federal public servants for health insurance claim problems
• 18-year-old dead in fatal crash near Perth, Ont.

Barrie

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  Red light cameras installed at busy Cookstown intersection to increase road safety
• Several inflatable decorations destroyed by vandals in Barrie's east end
• Man fatally shot by police amid domestic disturbance in Newmarket: SIU

Toronto

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  Woman charged with second-degree murder in death of 3-year-old boy in East York
• Police arrest 1 of 4 suspects wanted in theft, stabbing at Best Buy in Scarborough that left off-duty cop injured
• Gordon Hayward scores 24 points as hot-shooting Hornets hold off Scottie Barnes, Raptors 119-116

Montreal

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  Man arrested in death of Quebec toddler found injured at daycare
• Public sector strikes: Legault appears ready to wait it out
• Heavy rain and more snow on the way beginning this weekend in Montreal

London

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  'They stole my son, and they owe it to us to turn themselves in': A family’s plea to hit-and-run driver
• Integrity Commissioner recommends sanctioning Councillor Stevenson for social media post
• Police investigate fatal crash near Tillsonburg, Ont.

Vancouver

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  RCMP seeking to dispose of evidence from Robert Pickton case, prompting concerns from advocates
• 85-year-old man assaulted over parking at Penticton Walmart, RCMP say
• B.C. has Canada's largest proportion of non-religious residents, poll finds

Calgary

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  Review board denies discharge to man who killed five at Calgary house party
• What we know about Calgary's unsolved homicides of 2023
• 'It's not work': 89-year-old Calgarian enjoying selling Christmas trees

Saskatoon

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  Saskatoon projects $13M in surpluses, could the money go to taxpayers?
• Sask. TikTok sensation gets special visit from Ryan Reynolds following life-saving surgery
• James Smith Cree Nation inquest dates announced

Vancouver Island

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  How a volunteer search group brought closure to the family of missing woman Melissa McDevitt
• Environment Canada warns of snow, high winds on Vancouver Island
• Here's how many people have accessed free birth control in B.C.

Edmonton

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  Alberta finance minister says he has not 'flip-flopped' on proposed pension change
• Canada Post worker attacked, robbed by 4 in south Edmonton
• Arsons destroy pair of rural Alberta churches: RCMP

Winnipeg

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  'We will feel the absence': Brandon man's life and legacy remembered by community
• Ryan O'Neal, star of 'Love Story,' 'Paper Moon,' 'Peyton Place' and 'Barry Lyndon,' dies at 82
• Winnipeg Transit strike avoided as union accepts offer

Canada

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  Ibrahim Ali found guilty of killing 13-year-old girl in B.C.
• Feds recover $40M from defunct Quebec vaccine developer Medicago
• 2 Ontario men charged after allegedly producing recruitment videos for listed terrorist entity

Entertainment

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  Ryan O'Neal, star of 'Love Story,' 'Paper Moon,' 'Peyton Place' and 'Barry Lyndon,' dies at 82
• Taylor Swift's Eras Tour is the 1st tour to gross over US$1B, Pollstar says
• Movie reviews: Every frame of 'The Boy and the Heron' exudes warmth, wonder, poignancy and poetry

World

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  Six Palestinians are killed in the Israeli military's latest West Bank raid, health officials say
• Europe reaches a deal on the world's first comprehensive AI rules
• U.S., South Korea and Japan urge stronger international push to curb North Korean nuclear program

Health

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  From general practitioner to treatment: Canadians' waited longer for health care in 2023
• Kopi Thyme brand sauces and soup bases recalled due to potential botulism threat
• 'We're inside the patient, looking directly at the tumour': Gaming experience aids surgery

Politics

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  Marathon Conservative carbon tax filibuster ends after nearly 30 consecutive hours of House votes
• Canadian alleges discrimination, sues federal government in effort to get grandchildren out of Gaza
• Conservatives launch marathon voting session over Liberal refusal to scrap carbon tax

Autos

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  Ontario G driving test changes done without safety evaluations, auditor finds
• GM's Cruise robotaxi service faces potential fine in alleged cover-up of San Francisco accident
• BMW recalls SUVs after Takata air bag inflator blows apart, hurling shrapnel and injuring driver