Mason Kossak
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 27, 2026
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It's not OK to use your speakerphone in public, says almost everyone. 'It's not all about you' (opens the original)
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On the subway, in a coffee shop or a checkout line, somebody nearby likely has their phone on full volume. A bylaw bars anyone on Toronto’s transit system from using an audio device without headphones, and the fine is $195. In three years, one person has been ticketed under it, for playing loud music and “ignoring repeated requests to turn it off,” Stuart Green, a spokesperson for the Toronto Transit Commission, said in an email to National Post. The phone in your pocket is also a speaker. Is it
Ontario agencies restore Lake Ontario to their websites after Google Maps updated it to Lake America in the U.S. (opens the original)
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Ontario government agencies have restored Lake Ontario to their websites after a Google Maps update replaced it with Lake America over the weekend. Metrolinx, the provincial agency that runs GO Transit, disabled the map on its GO stations page where the label appeared, it told Global News. The agency said in an email to National Post that “the issue has since been resolved, and our maps once again show Lake Ontario.” Maps on sites run by Hydro One, Metrolinx, Infrastructure Ontario and the LCBO
Here are the Trump lakes, islands and an avenue Canada could consider renaming (opens the original)
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As Canadian officials reject U.S. President Donald Trump’s order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, Canada’s own database of official place names carries eight entries called Trump. Only one thing in the country is actually named after the U.S. president, and it is not on that list. Ottawa Coun. Tim Tierney told CNN it is Trump Avenue, a residential street in the capital’s Central Park neighbourhood. CNN reported that council voted unanimously Wednesday to take a first step toward renaming t
Chapman's Ice Cream replacing 70% of its American ingredients amid trade war (opens the original)
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An Ontario ice cream company is fighting back against “unjustified tariffs” by sourcing more non-American ingredients. “We stand with the Canadian government, and all provinces, in our outright rejection of these unjustified tariffs,” Chapman’s Ice Cream said in a post on its Instagram account Wednesday. The company said it is on track to convert more than 70 per cent of its American ingredients by mid-2027 and will continue to use 100 per cent Canadian dairy. Chapman’s wrote that it will not ra
Nova Scotia's new welfare rules exclude tents, cars and trailers (opens the original)
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To qualify for higher income assistance in Nova Scotia, a home now needs running water and a sewer connection. The province filed the legislative amendment on Aug. 25 and it took effect the same day. It rewrites the provision the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal interpreted on Aug. 7, when it ruled that Bradley Lowe’s tent was his accommodation. Lowe died Dec. 15, 2023, of an overdose in a tent in front of Halifax City Hall, after camping at Victoria Park. Two months earlier he applied to move from $
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