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Author: Alanna Smith
Publication Date: October 9, 2025 - 18:31
Ontario declares end to measles outbreak after almost a year
October 9, 2025
Ontario has declared its measles outbreak over after a nearly year-long battle, but other parts of the country are still managing new cases of the highly-infectious disease.
Public Health Ontario, in its weekly measles update posted on Thursday, announced that the provincial outbreak concluded on Oct. 6. National guidance states an outbreak is over when no new cases have been reported for 46 consecutive days, which is double the incubation period for measles.
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In the late 1960s, the urbanist Jane Jacobs bought a cavernous rooming house on Toronto’s Albany Avenue. She and her husband – a freelance writer and a young architect – moved their family into the Bohemian Annex.Forty years later, the house sold for $850,000 and got renovated. It’s now worth millions, and sports an Audi SUV in the driveway. The building remains; everything else has changed.
November 1, 2025 - 08:30 | Alex Bozikovic | The Globe and Mail
A new court ruling combines sociological analysis and the facts of a minor crime to create a new genre of narrative that could be called Rural Ontario Gothic. Here is that ruling, in the case of His Majesty the King and Neil Valliant, handed down October 21, 2025, in Pembroke, Ont., by Justice J.R. Richardson, who compellingly tells the story of a shooting that injured no one but revealed a great deal:
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November 1, 2025 - 08:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
At 2 a.m. on Sunday Nov. 2, daylight saving time (DST) will end and clocks will “fall back” one hour for most Canadians, forcing people to adjust their sleep schedules.
In Canada, DST always starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
DST is practiced in over 70 countries and by an estimated one billion people globally, but how did Canada come to participate in this peculiar routine, and why do some provinces just not bother? What are the potential benefits and downsides? Here’s everything you need to know about daylight saving time ahead of...
November 1, 2025 - 08:00 | National Post | National Post
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