Dec 11, 2025 | 8:18 AM
Yesterday was a snowfall warning, today it’s a snowsquall warning.
Upwards of 25 cms was expected overnight into today, with slippery and icy road conditions expected.
You’re being asked to expect slowdowns, road closures and deteriorating travel conditions.
Ontario is expanding rules intended to place seniors in culturally appropriate long-term care homes.
The government found that their 2022 law known as Bill 7 -- which was criticized for allowing people to be placed in a long-term care home not of their choosing -- also led to declining and mismatched admissions to the province's cultural homes.
It's the last call for many Canadians to get a piece of the 500-million dollar class-action lawsuit after Loblaw admitted it’s part in a bread price fixing scheme.
Canadians have until Friday to submit an online claim if they bought packaged bread between January 2001 and December 2021 and did not previously accept a gift card from Loblaw.
Those who filed a claim could receive 25-dollars within six to 12 months after the deadline.
Tis the season for distraction thefts, police in Hamilton are warning shoppers to be vigilant, after 2 incidents, inside retail stores last month.
3 suspects apparently working together, stole the wallet of a 68-year-old and an 83 year old on the same day.
Police say they've identified two suspects and are working on an I-D’ing the third.
Anyone with information is asked to come forward.
Toronto is Canada's "rattiest" city, according to a new report by a pest control company.
The report by Orkin Canada counted the number of rodent treatments the company performed at residential and commercial properties.
Mississauga and Ottawa held the second and third place titles for Ontario cities with the most rats, while Victoria and Vancouver were second and third for rattiest cities in the country.
The company warns homeowners and businesses to take precautions to keep rodents out as the weather gets cold.
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The Bank of Canada has left its key interest rate unchanged at its final rate decision of the year.
The policy rate remains at 2.25 per cent after the Bank of Canada lowered it by a quarter point in October.
The B-O-C governor Tiff Macklem maintained in a prepared statement that inflationary pressures continue to be contained.
While Ontario is getting snow, British Columbia's is getting pounded by rain,
The Lower Mainland has been cut off from the Interior due to flooding and rock slides, as a series of atmospheric river systems drench the province.
The Transportation ministry is reporting -- a "significant amount'' of water is flooding roads.
Big Brother will be watching in Waterloo region.
The Waterloo Police have announced they’ve signed an agreement with the city, to installing (CCTV) cameras with automatic license plate readers.
According WRPS Deputy Chief, Jen Davis said the cameras would not be live monitored, and anyone asking for footage would need legal reasons to see it.
Furthermore, any footage that is not used in an investigation would be deleted after 30 days.
The Canada Revenue Agency is looking to hire, or rehire, about 17-hundred call centre workers over the next few months to manage an influx of calls during the upcoming tax season.
Melanie Serjak, an assistant commissioner at the C-R-A, says the agency is aiming to reach a total of 45-hundred agents to handle a "very high forecast" in demand.
She says it's normal for it to increase its staffing levels during the high-peak tax season, when the agency can receive more than 300-thousand phone calls per day.
The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing Chat-G-P-T maker Open-A-I and its business partner Microsoft for wrongful death.
They claim the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified her son's "paranoid delusions" and helped direct them at his mother before he killed her.
Police said 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg, a former tech industry worker, fatally beat and strangled his mother, Suzanne Adams, and killed himself in August.
The lawsuit claims OpenAI designed a defective product that validated a user's paranoid delusions.