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    Workplace safety officials investigating truck driver death at Port of Montreal

    Montreal's port authority says a man has died after an apparent accident at one of its wharves. Port of Montreal spokesperson Renée Larouche says the authority was notified of an accident involving a truck driver at the Viau shipping terminal northeast of downtown at around 2 p.m. on Friday. Police and emergency services were called to the scene. Larouche says Quebec's workplace safety board — the Commission des normes, de l’équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail — has taken over an in

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    1 person dead after crash near Collingwood: OPP

    One person is dead after crashing their car into a ditch north of Toronto Friday night, Ontario Provincial Police say.Police responded to the single-vehicle crash on Grey Road 19 south of Sixth Line in the Blue Mountains, according to Collingwood OPP. Police have not released any information about the person who died and are asking anyone with information to contact investigators.

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    Mississauga man dead after road rage leads to multiple vehicle crash: OPP

    A 21-year-old man from Mississauga is dead after crashing into another car during a road rage incident Friday evening, Ontario Provincial Police say. Provincial police responded to the call around 5:30 p.m. Friday for a six vehicle collision on Highway 400 near Simcoe Road 89 in Innisfil, Ont.Police say two vehicles were "road raging" while travelling southbound. Then, the 21-year-old driver crossed the centre median of the highway and hit a pickup truck travelling north, according to OPP, causi

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    Woman dies after head-on collision on highway west of Montreal

    LACHUTE, Que. — Quebec provincial police say a 51-year-old woman has died after a head-on collision in the town of Lachute, roughly 50 kilometres west of Montreal, early this morning. Police spokesperson Frédéric Deshaies says preliminary information suggests a vehicle heading west on Quebec highway 50 entered the oncoming traffic lane and hit the car the woman was driving. She was initially brought to the hospital in critical condition but later died. Deshaies says police arrested the driver of

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    Thirty years since apartheid ended, South Africa's celebrations set against growing discontent

    South Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital Saturday. President Cyril Ramaphosa presided over the gathering in a huge white tent in the gardens of the government buildings in Pretoria as head of state. (AP video by Nqobile Ntshangase)

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    Edmonton Queer History: How a yearbook quote made national news back in 1985

    Ian Paterson wanted to pen down a simple dream in his yearbook quote, to "eventually settle down in a quiet suburb with a tall, rich, hunky man with a bushy moustache."It seems simple now, but in 1985, when 2SLGBTQ+ rights were not what they are today and AIDS hysteria was at its peak, this statement from a high school student was so controversial that it made the news. 38 years later, the story — printed in a small segment of a newspaper — is discovered by Remi Baker, a research assistant with

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    Ontario to tighten regulations on cell phone use in schools: source

    The Ontario government is poised to crack down on cell phone use in schools with an announcement coming Sunday, a government source confirmed to CBC Toronto.The province will also be tightening its policies around vaping in schools, the source said. Stephen Lecce, the province's education minister, will share more details on the "comprehensive" policy changes Sunday morning, according to the source. Details of Lecce's announcement were first reported by the Toronto Star."It will have teeth," the

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