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Report drafted by victims' families rips into Tehran's official explanation for deadly crash

Jewish National Fund Canada will present an exclusive conversation with Dr. Robert Satloff on Mon. Nov. 15 (7:30 pm) entitled “My Search for Arabs Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust.”

Of the 86 seized weapons posted to Twitter by Toronto police, 63 are prohibited firearms under Canadian law

Mazel tov! The whole shtetl buzzed with the news. Chanka, the butcher’s daughter, was engaged to Yankel, the carpenter’s son.  It was a local match, so the whole town got involved in the wedding preparations. A week before the wedding, Chanka could be found sewing the last few stitches on he…

  TORONTO -- An Ontario Superior Court justice is now deciding the fate of one of the men alleged to be among the suspects in a series of bank and pharmacy robberies in Toronto, a group police described as the “SKS Bandits” because of a unique Russian rifle that was their calling card. Surveillance video played at the trial of Ivan David Lira shows two balaclava-clad men bursting into six banks and pharmacies from Agincourt to the West End of Toronto, armed with something tellers said l...

Head Of Infectious Diseases at UCT, Prof Marc Mendelson talk to John Maytham about the 'double-whammy' of Covid-19 and flu.

  TORONTO -- A grieving sister is fighting for answers in the death of her 19-year-old brother, who she says died after being struck by a “ghost gun” while working in Toronto’s troubled tow truck industry. Nadezhda Simova has done her own detective work, unearthing a photo of a gun she says her brother Peter Simov texted to friends shortly before his death — a gun she alleges in a lawsuit was given to him by his employer, Paramount Towing. “I just fell on the floor. I was crying,...

Experts warn of third Covid-19 wave in South Africa amid vaccination delay: report Subscribe A delay in South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccination programme could lead to a third wave of the virus, the Sunday Times reports. Vaccinologist professor Shabir Madhi told the paper that the government was late to the game in acquiring a vaccine, warning that another wave could resurface within three to four months. “It seems to me that the government only started planning in early January after a media b...