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  Rain brings relief to air quality, but is it enough?

  The rain that moved into the region Friday morning is welcome relief for many after days of high air pollution warnings.

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  Midland's Butter Tart Festival expected to tempt thousands

  A popular festival returns to Midland this weekend, with thousands expected to flock to the town for a sweet taste.

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  Parents of boy shot dead in Barrie driveway deliver haunting statements at sentencing hearing

  The grief-stricken parents of a teen killed in his driveway in Barrie in 2021 delivered haunting victim impact statements in court Thursday, recalling the day their "world was destroyed."

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• Barrie man, 40, accused of having hundreds of child pornography images faces charges
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• Trump charged over classified documents in 1st federal indictment of an ex-president 4
• Annual Boots and Hearts Barn Burner charity game returns
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World

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  Philippines evacuates people near Mayon Volcano, where more unrest indicates eruption may be coming

  Philippine troops, police and rescue workers began forcibly evacuating residents near Mayon Volcano on Friday as its increasing unrest indicated a violent eruption of one of the country's most active volcanoes is possible within weeks or days.

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  Russian citizen mauled to death by tiger shark off Egypt's Red Sea coast in rare attack

  

  Child victims of stabbing attack in France in critical but stable condition, president visits
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  Vatican: Pope sitting up, working from an armchair after abdominal surgery

  

  Sudan's government declares UN envoy, a mediator in the conflict, no longer welcome

Canada

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  Bernardo's prison transfer 'slap in the face' for victims' families: Tori Stafford's father says

  The father of Tori Stafford, an Ontario girl who was murdered in 2009, says the latest decision to transfer convicted killer Paul Bernardo to a minimum security prison is a 'slap in the face' to all murder victims' families.

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  Unemployment rate ticks higher in May for first time in nine months: StatCan

  

  Defrocked priest facing new sexual assault charges in Igloolik, Nunavut
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  'Canada dry': Climatologist Dave Phillips foresees hot, dry summer countrywide

  

  Northeastern B.C. community of 2,400 ordered to evacuate due to wildfire