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Speed limit rising to 110 km/h on Hwy 416, parts of 401
Ontario will raise the speed limit on more sections of 400-series highways to 110 km/h later this year, including additional sections near Ottawa.The speed limit will rise along nearly all of Highway 416 from Highway 401 to the capital, a distance of about 70 kilometres. The province did not specify where exactly the speed limit will change, but Wednesdsay's announcement suggests it will be about five kilometres south of the 416/417 split.The speed limit will also rise along three sections of Hi
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VideoBiden to sign law that could ban TikTok in U.S.
U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to sign a law that sets a January 2025 deadline for Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell its U.S. operation. Lawmakers behind the ban have warned of national security risks from the popular social video app.
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Mexico's presidential frontrunner Sheinbaum widens lead in April poll
Former Mexico City mayor and ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum increased her lead in the race for the presidency, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday, some 40 days before the election on June 2. An April 10-13 poll of 1,600 Mexicans by Mitofsky Tendencias for newspaper El Economista gave Sheinbaum, who represents the leftist National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), 51.4% support. Sheinbaum's closest rival is Xochitl Galvez, the candidate representing a three-party opposition coalition o
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Woman dead after being struck by transport truck on TCH outside St. John's
Police are investigating after a woman was struck by a transport truck on the Trans-Canada Highway outside St. John's on Tuesday afternoon.According to the RCMP, the woman was walking on the eastbound lane of the highway when she was hit. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Nobody in the truck was injured, police say, and the driver showed no signs of impairment. The incident happened near Thomas Pond, west of Paddy's Pond on the highway.The province's chief medical examiner is investigating,
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From frost to feels like 30 — things are heating up quickly in Ontario
After days with a frost and freeze threat, temperatures will be heating up in southern Ontario this weekend. An active storm track will drag both warmth and moisture into the region, introducing a summer-like humidex
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Biden pardons 11 people, commutes sentences of five others, says White House
U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday pardoned 11 people and commuted the sentences of five others who had been convicted of non-violent drug offenses, the White House said, the latest in a series of such actions. "Many of these individuals received disproportionately longer sentences than they would have under current law, policy, and practice," Biden said in a statement. Last year the White House unveiled a plan to reduce "unnecessary" incarcerations, support rehabilitation for imprisoned pe
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