This weekend, firefighters responded to more than 75 calls across the city related to carbon monoxide and the smell of gas in homes caused by snow-blocked vents.

Ottawa's new professional women's soccer team will take the field at TD Stadium in the spring. But first the players need to get acquainted with their coach's game plan as well as each other.

Police say a 22-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder and arson after a person was found dead at the site of a restaurant fire north of Toronto.

Ontario's Feb. 27 vote is now less than 10 days away, and the campaign appears to have entered a new, rougher phase.

Toronto Blue Jays slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. says the team and his representatives did not reach an agreement on a contract extension.

Extreme cold temperatures continue to bear down on the London region, forcing local health units to issue cold weather alerts and the city to open an emergency overnight shelters for Londoners without a warm place to sleep. 

A Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis to Toronto crashed and flipped on its back at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon. Here's what we know so far.

A Mississauga man who lost his $30,000 down payment in a failed development project last year says he's shocked to see the project being revived by the same managers at a different unlicensed company. 

Gordon Precious previously held the record for oldest heliskier when he was 94 years old. A few years later, a 95-year-old took the title, but now Precious is ready to take it back.

OC Transpo is in the midst of overhauling its St-Laurent bus facility to accommodate the hundreds of electric buses set to arrive over the next few years. The switch has been anything but simple.

The NDP incumbent won the provincial riding by only about 900 votes the last time around.

A proposed gravel extraction licence next to the village of Harrington, Ont., has residents of the village questioning how the province oversees aggregate extraction.

Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford, NDP Leader Marit Stiles, Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie and Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner will take part in the televised debate, which runs from 6:30-8 p.m. ET. The CBC's David Common will moderate while Global’s Colin D’Mello and CTV’s Siobahn Morris will also pose questions to the leaders.

Ottawa Charge forward Gabbie Hughes, Toronto Sceptres forward Hannah Miller and Minnesota Frost defender Sophie Jaques are the Professional Women's Hockey League's three stars of the week.

Air traffic experts on both sides of the border are expressing amazement that there were apparently no fatalities in a Delta plane crash at approximately 2:13 this afternoon at Toronto Pearson Airport. Nine people out of the approximately 80 aboard were injured, according to the New York Times, including one in critical but non-life-threatening condition who was airlifted to a trauma center, according to Lawrence Saindon, a supervisor with the Peel Regional Paramedic Services. One pediatric patient was also in critical but non-life-threatening condition. The remaining seven who were injured were transported to hospitals with minor-to-moderate injuries.

 The Bombardier Regional Jet from Minneapolis crashed on landing, flipped over onto its roof and started to burn. The fire was quickly extinguished and passengers made their way off the plane. Toronto Pearson placed a hold on landings and takeoffs and some of the flights were diverted to Hamilton International. A Hamilton Airport spokesperson responded to the Bay Observer stating, “Hamilton International is currently accepting diverted aircraft and continues to monitor and assess the situation. The Airport has robust protocols in place to manage the flow of aircraft while maintaining the safety of all incoming and departing flights.”

As people in Hamilton and surrounding areas continue to dig out from Saturday’s and Sunday’s “significant snowfall,” Environment Canada is warning of more extreme weather in the coming days.

People across London and the surrounding region, much like people across Ontario and Quebec, were faced with digging themselves out of multiple days of snowfall as the Family Day holiday got started, Monday.

Burlington MP Karina Gould announced she has raised the final cash installment needed to stay in the Liberal leadership race. In a social media post Gould tweeted, “After three amazing weeks on the campaign trail, I’m happy to report that our campaign hit an exciting milestone this weekend— we paid the final portion of the Party’s $350,000 entry fee! A massive thank you to everyone who’s helped make that possible.” In an earlier tweet Gould had been critical of the party for setting the fundraising threshold at the $350,000.

It looks like all the other contenders will meet the deadline as well. The campaigns for Chrystia Freeland, Ruby Dhalla and Frank Baylis confirmed they have already made their final payment.

Perceived frontrunner Mark Carney’s campaign says he will pay the last instalment to the party today. The candidates are scheduled stage two debates early next week in Montreal, one in English and one in French. There are now just three weeks left in the race before the party names its next leader on March 9.

National polling shows the Federal Conservatives still ahead, but with a much smaller margin than they had held for most of the past year. A Mainstream poll released February 13 showed the Conservatives leading the Liberals by just three points 39-36. A poll by the same company four weeks ago had the conservative lead at 19 points.

Beginning April 1, 2025, the Blue Box program in Hamilton, including curbside collection and supplying blue boxes to residents, will be managed by Circular Materials and not by the City of Hamilton. Between April 1 and December 31, 2025, there will be no changes to residents’ collection day or to the materials that can go into the blue box. Residents can continue using two blue boxes to separate paper and container recycling.

Residents can still use clear plastic bags for recycling, but this could change January 1, 2026.

After January 1, 2026, Circular Materials can make changes to what is accepted and how material is collected under the new program. They will also be responsible for informing residents of any changes.

The changes are necessary because the Ford government decreed that as of January 1, 2026, 100% of the cost and operating responsibility of the Blue Box Program to the producers of paper products and packaging.

The packaging industry have named Circular Materials Ontario (Circular Materials), to head up the new recycling regime. Circular Materials will hand out contracts to various waste haulers and in the case of Hamilton GFL has won the Hamilton contract.  A city staff report says “this is advantageous to the City as it is Hamilton’s current curbside collection contractor.”

The city will continue to receive recyclables at its three Community Recycling Centres during the transition period.

In a recent interview, Angela Storey Director, Waste Management, told the Bay Observer, “Under the new system the material will go to a GFL facility for sorting and processing. It’s happening across the entire province and during the transition period residents shouldn’t see a change in their program, what we don’t know is how some of the basic customer service pieces will look like. For instance if somebody needs a blue box now, they can just go to a transfer station to pick one up. After April 2025 were no longer in that business, so there will be a customer service number or website for people to contact so that people will be able to get new blue boxes.”

Recycling will be picked up a day later this week due to the Family Day holiday. That means you should put your red and blue boxes out on Wednesday night, February 19th for Thursday morning this week or have it out by 6 a.m. on Thursday, February 20th.

There is no set collection time for recycling. Collection can occur anytime between 6:00 am and 6:00 pm on your scheduled day.

Set out Acceptable Materials only. Some materials such as hardcover and softcover books, paint aerosols/cans, and used motor oil will no longer be picked up. Instead these items can be dropped off for free at the EWSWA Depot.

Residents can contact GFL directly for service inquiries, issues, bins, carts or for new builds/homeowners via 1-844-415-4351 or [email protected].

Visit Essex-Windsor Solid Waste Authority for more information. Click here to see the 2025 Collection Calendar for Kingsville.

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