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Good morning. As far as U.S. President Donald Trump is concerned, the war in Gaza is over. But there is still work ahead to chart a new course for the war-torn region. More ceasefire news below, along with thawing Canada-India relations and a Nobel Prize win. Let’s get to it.TOP STORY
October 14, 2025 - 07:03 | Sierra Bein | The Globe and Mail
For at least four years, Ontario officials have known that the provincial safety limit for lead in drinking water doesn’t go far enough to protect the public, newly released documents show.
But despite internal proposals about taking action, and dialogue with municipalities regarding changes, no new lead quality standard has been introduced.
Officials at the Ontario Ministry of the Environment met to discuss reducing the province’s lead limit from 10 parts per billion (ppb) to match the federal Health Canada standard of five ppb as far back as June 2021, documents show.
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October 14, 2025 - 07:00 | Stacey Kuznetsova, Investigative Journalism Bureau | National Post
Marineland’s crumbling infrastructure, staffing shortage and lack of resources have created dangerous conditions for its belugas and they should be moved immediately, a fired beluga trainer says.Kristy Burgess, who worked at the Niagara Falls, Ont., park when a young beluga was put down in February, said Marineland’s threat to euthanize all 30 of its remaining belugas if it doesn’t receive emergency funding is a “repulsive” tactic that uses the whales as leverage.
October 14, 2025 - 06:44 | Liam Casey | The Globe and Mail
John Hogan is doing his best to make the ballot question in Newfoundland and Labrador’s upcoming election all about the province’s energy future. In mid-September, as the premier greeted voters in Happy Valley-Goose Bay—a regional service town in central Labrador—he made a vow. If his Liberal government is re-elected on October 14, he’ll ensure the proposed redevelopment of the massive Churchill Falls hydroelectric project goes ahead, turbo-charging the provincial economy and righting a decades-long dispute with neighbouring Quebec.
The Labrador project and a tentative new development...
October 14, 2025 - 06:30 | Trevor Corkum | Walrus
The waves are coming back in at Quayside. This 12-acre site in Toronto’s Port Lands will see construction begin next year on its western portion, in a development that will soon deliver 1,100 market-rental apartments and 550 affordable rentals. Last week, Toronto City Council approved the plan from Waterfront Toronto and developers Dream Unlimited and Great Gulf. It delivers a large quantity of housing and some remarkable urban design. It also offers a lesson on what a major national rollout of housing – as the federal government has promised – is going to cost.
October 14, 2025 - 06:30 | Alex Bozikovic | The Globe and Mail
Marineland's crumbling infrastructure, staffing shortage and lack of resources have created dangerous conditions for its belugas, a fired beluga trainer says.
October 14, 2025 - 06:16 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
