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2 winning tickets for Saturday night's $25 million Lotto 649 jackpot

TORONTO — Two winning tickets were sold for Saturday night's $25 million Lotto 649 jackpot. One was purchased in Ontario and the other in Quebec — each being worth almost $12.4 million.
2 children, their mother and great-grandmother die in Ontario house fire

2 children, their mother and great-grandmother die in Ontario house fire

PORT COLBORNE, Ont. — Two children, their mother and their great-grandmother have died in a house fire that has devastated a small southwestern Ontario community, according to a close friend and a family relative.
Commons committee recommends Canada Post bring back door-to-door mail delivery

Commons committee recommends Canada Post bring back door-to-door mail delivery

OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee is recommending Canada Post come up with a plan to reinstate door-to-door delivery in parts of the country that lost the service in the last year and maintain a freeze on the installation of community mailb

Nestle says it wants to 'partner' with small Ontario town on well it purchased

TORONTO — Nestle Waters Canada says it wants to partner with a small southern Ontario township on a well that the community wanted for its drinking water supply.
Flu season well underway, set to be the Grinch that steals Christmas: doctors

Flu season well underway, set to be the Grinch that steals Christmas: doctors

TORONTO — It's that time of year again — that sneezing, coughing, aching, feel-so-lousy time of year. Yup, flu season is back.

Issue of sex-selective abortion makes appearance in Tory leadership race

OTTAWA — A pair of Conservative leadership hopefuls say it's time for Canada to have a free and open debate about sex-selective abortion — a position that's raising concerns about the revival of old party divisions.

OHL Roundup: Merkley's overtime goal powers Storm past Frontenacs 4-3

GUELPH, Ont. — Ryan Merkley scored his second goal of the night in overtime to lift the Guelph Storm over the Kingston Frontenacs 4-3 on Sunday in Ontario Hockey League action.

Union representing public servants reaches tentative agreement

OTTAWA — A union representing public servants has reached a tentative contract that it says gives federal scientists the right to share their research with the media without first being designated official spokespeople.

Minister vows long-term child care funding as study details fast-rising fees

OTTAWA — A new study suggests that the cost of child care fees in some of Canada's biggest cities has skyrocketed over the last three years, rising an average of more than twice the rate of inflation over the same time period.

A breakdown of the cost of child care in some of Canada's biggest cities

OTTAWA — How much do you pay in child care fees? Below is a breakdown by age group of monthly median child care fees across all spaces — regulated or unregulated, in a centre or a home-based daycare — in some of Canada's biggest
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