The Blue Jays got rained out yesterday, so their faint post-season hopes rest on a doubleheader today.
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But in happier news, basketball season is just getting ready to start, and Kawhi Leonard and the Raptors have signed a deal to extend his contract for at least two more years.
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But first up, here are six things to know on Wednesday morning:
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- At a mayoral debate moderated by Toronto Star editor-in-chief Nicole MacIntyre, finances and affordability were in focus.
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- In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Donald Trump raised the possibility he could “annihilate the Islamic Republic.”
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- The suspect in the Belleville shooting outside a synagogue has died in hospital.
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- Two people were found dead in burned cars in Toronto on the same night, on opposite ends of the city.
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people → find → city
- New single-family home sales tripled in August (the condo market remained slow).
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market → triple → August
- It’s the largest donation for cancer care in Canadian history: $100 million.
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In the words of my grade nine band teacher: And a-one, and a-two, and a-one-two-three-four...
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
In a wide-ranging speech at the General Assembly, the U.S. president defended his war on Iran, celebrated his earlier military operation in Venezuela and trumpeted his recent deal with Greenland.
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Trump has thrown the UN into turmoil, pulling the U.S. out of several of its agencies and withholding funding.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has called for building stronger multilateral institutions, was in attendance, holding meetings on the sidelines of the assembly.
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At the UN, it was a tale of two world orders — and the growing divide between Canada and Donald Trump’s America.
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it → grow → Canada
- With Carney at the UN talking about the two-state solution, Martin Regg Cohn looks at the history of Jewish settlements on the West Bank.
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- Unions say that new bill overhauling labour law will make strikes in federally regulated sectors all but impossible.
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The three leading candidates for mayor joined the Star’s editor-in-chief for a televised debate.
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- Instant reaction: Star columnists give their quick thoughts on how the candidates performed.
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- Star publisher Jordan Bitove outlined new polling on the state of Toronto in a speech yesterday — and then I hosted a panel on how the city can live up to its potential.
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city → outline → potential
The Ford government is arguing that the federal firearms ban is unconstitutional — but it isn’t asking for it to be struck down.
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it → argue → ?
A former Canadian Armed Forces infantry soldier who was injured in a shootout with police outside the Sons of Jacob synagogue has died in hospital.
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who → injure → hospital
- Sex assault and dangerous driving convictions have been overturned because of the way judges grilled the accused men.
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Our chief investigative reporter fielded reader questions on auto thefts in a live Q&A.
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Here’s a look at some of the insights he shared.
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Around the world
- El Niño could cause a drought in Asia — which could raise food prices globally.
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- Lindsay Clancy’s attorney asked the judge to investigate the lone juror who wanted to convict her in the deaths of her three young children.
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who → ask → children
Three people from the same family died in less than five years in the same house in Mississauga.
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people → die → Mississauga
Authorities had been explaining the deaths away, but family members knew something was wrong.
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something → explain → deaths
A young reporter on the Toronto Star city desk, Amy Dempsey Raven, was dispatched to figure out what the heck was going on.
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“I thought this had to be some kind of complex web, like a murder plot, a hired hit person — I was expecting to uncover something that was a professional job,” she told me recently in a video interview.
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“It turned out to be something a lot more obvious than that, related to a longtime family conflict that the police knew about all along and didn’t take seriously.”
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Dempsey Raven spent more than a decade on the story, combing through court documents, interviewing witnesses and retracing the steps of police investigations to see how they missed the clues that were sitting there all the time.
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She wrote a series for the Star called “Improbable Cause,” and recently she revisited the story for her new podcast “What Happened to the Harrisons?”
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Dempsey Raven is one of the newsroom’s best feature writers, so I asked her what it was like to tell the story out loud on a podcast, rather than in words typed on a page.
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“It was so fun, thinking about how to structure a story for audio.
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Honestly, I loved it.
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What feedback I’ve been getting from people who’ve listened is, ‘Wow, after reading your reporting for many years, it was incredible to hear the voices of these people.’
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I had hours upon hours of police interviews with the main people involved.
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I → have → people
You get to hear [the second victim] Bridget Harrison’s voice, you get to hear [the third victim] Caleb Harrison’s voice.
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you → get → voice
You get to hear wiretaps of the killers talking back and forth.
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killers → get → wiretaps
It allows the listener to make their own judgments based on hearing how people talk about how reliable they are.
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…and 24 more, not listed.
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