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Thousands are without power after a major storm downed trees and power lines in southwestern Ontario.

Climate change is leading to more extreme weather events — including tornadoes. Scientists have been tracking tornadoes and Canada ranks second in the world.

The Northern Tornadoes Project looked at Environment Canada's data and found that 70 per cent of tornadoes between 2019 and 2021 that touched down had no ECCC tornado warning.

The builder of two proposed developments in Barrie plans to include hurricane straps in its homes following the devastation of last years tornado.

Western University’s Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) verified 100 twisters in 2021 out of 400 severe weather events it studied that year.

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  BARRIE, ONT. -- Researchers with Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) are surveying the damage in a Barrie, Ont., neighbourhood after an EF-2 tornado touched down last week and said they believe some of the destruction was preventable. In all, 71 homes were deemed uninhabitable, and roughly 100 people were displaced. According to Dr. Connell Miller, a researcher with NTP, much of the damage caused by the powerful storm may not have happened if certain protocols were followed. "We saw non-su...

Manhattan: Dan Biederman’s column misses the mark on what has been wrong and missing at Penn Station (“Keep up momentum to fix Penn Station and its environs,” April 9). What is wrong is that we are still living with the decision made in the late 1950s to raze the original Penn Station and its triumphant public spaces and to later replace them with a subterranean transit hub in the basement of Madison Square Garden and 2 Penn Plaza.