More than 11,000 people have been killed, and thousands injured after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Turkey and Syria on Monday. Rescue teams and residents in the affected areas have been working since to find signs of life in the rubble of thousands of toppled buildings. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in a statement made in Ottawa on Tuesday, said that...

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Security and tourism experts who spoke with Humber News had mixed opinions on the current travel advisory placed on Mexico for Canadians. More than a million Canadians pack their bags yearly to vacation in Mexico and so far, more than 10 have been killed since 2022. And many countries including Canada have imposed a travel advisory for travellers. "Exercise a...

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Junior Brown, a 61-year-old retired veteran, reflected on his experience serving in the army and what Remembrance Day meant to him. “I enlisted in the Jamaica Defence Force in 1991," Brown said. "It was a very challenging experience from the initial training to my retirement. “The physical aspect of military training and trying to adjust to a new life was...

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Johanna Grant worked hard to be first. Her "Freedom Mas" band became the first female-led Jamaican band in Toronto Carnival's 55-year history. "I made sure I was the first woman to have a band, the first Jamaican band since 2006, and the first band to launch before the actual season, since I wanted to honour women this month," she said...

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Solomiya Skoryk was in Lviv, a western city in Ukraine, when Russia invaded the capital and has now raised more than $15,000 for the Ukrainian armed forces. The 28-year old, who has lived in Toronto for the past five years, said she was not expecting this much support. She was aware that many organizations had already started to pour their...

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The return of the Toronto Caribbean festival has sparked mass celebrations on social media after they announced its return after a two-year hiatus because of COVID-1s."The Toronto Carnival is excited and proud to kick off the new year celebrating 55 years. We look forward to seeing you ON DE ROAD in 2022," reads the official statement on the Toronto Carnival...

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A former Humber Hawks basketball star and pro-player has been found dead in his hotel room in Bahrain."It is very tragic. We had just spoken last week for about two hours, we just got an opportunity to catch up since he had moved," said Sele Akhigbe, a family friend of Kenny Ejim's. Ejim, from Brampton, Ont., was an import player...

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WestJet check-in agent Tena-Kaye Gilling gets approached regularly by anxious flyers worried about the latest telephone devices with new 5G software that may affect air flights."Most passengers who ask about 5G disrupting flights are mostly middle-aged and elderly people travelling to and from the Caribbean and the U. S.," she said."Ideally I would recommend all passengers refer to my company's...

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Elijah Santos, 23, said his girlfriend ended their three-year-long relationship because he got vaccinated."She said I'm unclean and that I am now a sheep," Santos said. Santos, a videographer, was a part of an active anti-vaccination campaign on Tiktok, following popular anti-vax and anti-mask protestor Chris Sky, who continues to spread fear about vaccines as well as the efficacy of...

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The federal government will soon ask Canadians who were ineligible to receive benefits during the pandemic lockdowns to make repayments. It has been more than a year since the Canada Emergency Response Benefits, known as CERB, was launched by the federal government. Many Canadians who received the $2,000 payment benefited tremendously."I was really happy when the government introduced the CERB,"...

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