Source Feed: Global News - Canada
Author: Aaron D’Andrea
Publication Date: September 1, 2025 - 04:00
Scorching summer has Ontario electricity usage hit highs not seen since 2013
September 1, 2025
The scorching summer of 2025 has led to levels of electricity usage not seen in more than a decade in Ontario, the company managing the province's power grid says.
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A waterfall tumbles down the rock face near 10 or so cavers hunched deep within a cranny in Horne Lake Caves, one of Vancouver Island’s best-known cave systems.As part of a rescue training workshop, the volunteer cavers are learning how to strap a person onto a backboard – a role played by a fellow volunteer – and how to manoeuvre and communicate in dark, tight and twisting passages.
September 27, 2025 - 09:30 | James Macdonald | The Globe and Mail
In March, four months into her pregnancy, Leilani Garel was in excruciating pain with a bug she suspects was the flu.Ms. Garel, who lives in Markham, Ont., rarely turns to over-the-counter medication and feared that taking it could affect her growing fetus. Having experienced a miscarriage before this pregnancy, she also carried an added burden of worry.
September 27, 2025 - 08:30 | Kristy Kirkup | The Globe and Mail
The risk that hundreds of ostriches in southeastern B.C. could still spread the bird flu that infected the flock last December is very low, but remains high enough to continue with a federal cull, veterinary science experts tell The Globe and Mail.Angela Rasmussen, a virologist with the University of Saskatchewan, said that while it is possible to test the birds for avian flu using a PCR test – the same used to test for COVID-19 in humans – scientists would likely need to take multiple samples to ensure the accuracy of the testing.
September 27, 2025 - 07:30 | Nancy Macdonald, Mike Hager | The Globe and Mail
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