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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 · 180 stories
But Harris said some of these provincial crews will begin to return home, or will now head to B.C. Now First Nations across Ontario have called for a public inquiry into Ontario’s wildfire response.
A $4.3-billion contract awarded last week for the construction of Pape and Cosburn Stations, including tunnelling, has pushed the current cost of the 15.6-kilometre downtown relief line to around $34 billion, Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay confirmed Tuesday at an unrelated press conference — or more than $2 billion per kilometre. Transit project costs, and construction costs more broadly, have been growing for years, according to a U of T report from 2024. “We don’t know if there is one line item on it that is vastly bigger than it is in comparable jurisdictions.” For example, Montreal’s.
The head of Ontario’s regional transit agency says the price tag so far for the Ontario Line subway is at about $34 billion, which is triple the government’s original cost projection. When Premier Doug Ford’s government announced its plan for the subway line to run from Exhibition Place to east Toronto, through downtown, it pegged the cost at $10.9 billion. Lindsay says when the project was announced in 2019 it was a different time and since then, trade uncertainty and supply chain shocks are adding pressure.
More than 80 fires have been put out since the last update in July, Mike Harris said, and currently there are 152 active fires, with 12 burning out of control. Firefighting efforts were hampered earlier in the season when a lightning storm caused about 30 new fires in a short time span, with some very close to communities, Harris said. Hopefully, we’ll continue to see some more favourable weather like we have over the last little while, and we can try and keep things as under control as possible.” One fast-moving forest fire that started close to a community destroyed homes and buildings on.
The monetary policy committee left the key rate at 8.75% “to ensure that inflation expectations remain anchored within the target range, and the exchange rate remains stable,” Governor Kamau Thugge said in an emailed statement Tuesday. (Bloomberg) — Kenya’s central bank warned inflation could breach its target if the US-Iran war persists, as policymakers held the benchmark interest rate for a third time in a row to monitor the conflict’s impact on the economy. Inflation is seen staying within the 2.5% to 7.5% target band in the near term, “assuming a de-escalation of the conflict in the.
Ontario making 'steady progress' against wildfires: Ministers - London Free Press.
Zelensky said Russian forces used ballistic missiles supplied by North Korea in an overnight attack on the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, where a company said seven workers at its steel plant were killed and 21 injured. The Russian Defence Ministry said its forces overnight struck “military industrial facilities and transport and logistics centres” in Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia with “ground-based precision weapons.” It said in a statement that it hit civilian storage facilities housing drones in Kyiv and a metallurgical plant in Zaporizhzhia. The more North Korean strikes there are here in Ukraine, in Europe,.
Cali, Colombia – A day after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake shook western Colombia, rescue teams are frantically fighting through the rubble of collapsed buildings to find survivors and recover bodies. At least 224 people have been killed in Colombia following a 7.4 magnitude earthquake which struck the western part of the country. In Cali, Colombia’s third-largest city, at least 95 people died, and 45 structures have fully or partially collapsed, according to local government statistics.
“We heard them screaming,” said one rescuer in Cali, where emergency workers and volunteers are racing against time to find the living trapped in the rubble.
Max Scherzer joins Hazel Mae to discuss the “fourth out” rule and the bizarre call in the Blue Jays-Red Sox game on Monday, recalling a similar play in 2009 and how it turned out.
President Donald Trump on Monday (August 10, 2026) backed FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who is in hot water over allegations of a workplace affair and criticism of a failed private investment scheme.
Two runs for Toronto, one run for Boston." Because Seigler crossed home plate before Sogard was called out at first, and Toronto never appealed the runner leaving third base early, the run was awarded to the Red Sox -- 16 minutes later. What we have here is we have a time play," crew chief Chris Guccione said on the field, "meaning when the third out was made at first base with the runner not tagging up, the runner that was on third base also did not tag but crossed home plate before the third out was made at first base. If the third out is made during a play in which an appeal play is.