Chair Rick Petrella and trustees Dan Dignard, Bill Chopp and Mark Watson of the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board were to Italy between July 8 and 15 to buy $100,000 in custom artwork for two new high schools. It's among trips by Ontario school boards that have come under scrutiny for the way public money is spent.

A building that was once among the grandest theatres in Hamilton has deteriorated beyond repair, is full of hazardous substances and must be demolished, says the developer who owns it.

Canada head coach Jesse Marsch has summoned 19 players, including York United FC teenager Shola Jimoh, to a camp in Toronto ahead of the full men's team gathering for the two-legged CONCACAF Nations League quarterfinal later this month against Suriname.

Bobby Smyrniotis, shut out in five previous nominations, finally has a Coach of the Year Award to go with his four Canadian Premier League titles.

Calgary's Cavalry FC could win its first Canadian Premier League championship on Saturday when it takes on Hamilton's Forge FC in front of a home crowd at ATCO field.

Paris police said Sunday that 4,000 officers and 1,600 stadium staff will be deployed for a France-Israel soccer match to ensure security a week after violence against Israeli fans in Amsterdam.

Calgary’s Cavalry FC can finally call itself Canadian Premier League champions. Playing in front of its hometown crowd, Cavalry FC dethroned the four-time champions Forge FC from Hamilton 2-1 Saturday in Calgary.

Sammy Wong, 8, of Waterloo has been playing the violin since he was 5 years old. He has been rehearsing for an upcoming concert with the musicians of the K-W Symphony on Saturday night at the Registry Theatre in Kitchener. The show, titled Prodigio del Violino:An Evening with Sammy Wong, will feature the music of Mozart and Vivaldi.

There have been three separate reports of pellet gun attacks in the past seven days in Guelph, Ont. Police have made an arrest in one case and continue to investigate the other two.

It took Kitchener resident Laura McBride and her family 80 years to discover what happened to her great uncle Thomas Ferguson Wilson after he died in April 1944 during a training mission.

The dust has finally settled on the 2024 Saskatchewan election and Premier Scott Moe has appointed a smaller cabinet with many new faces. The Morning Edition political panel discusses the potential impact.

Drivers are being warned to use caution on Saskatchewan's highways after five separate collisions involving moose were reported to RCMP in a 30-minute window on Friday evening.

Across Canada, there’s a growing number of political leaders proposing to force people into treatment for drug addiction, despite inconclusive evidence about its effectiveness.

Dozens of public library workers hit the picket line for the first day of job action in downtown Saskatoon on Tuesday. The union is demanding better wages and safer working conditions.

The Surrey Police Service is less than three weeks from taking over from the RCMP to manage policing in British Columbia's second most populous municipality, but there's still no formal deal on how responsibilities will be split between the two forces.

A blaze at an apartment building has displaced residents and led to two injuries, almost two years after a fire at the same building displaced dozens.

The Pinecrest Queensway and Somerset West health centres are aiming to get a slice of $370 million of provincial funding to operate centres focused on addictions recovery and links to supportive housing.

OC Transpo is short $120 million for next year, and Wednesday's draft budget will shed light on who can expect to pay the bill.

Montreal's Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen finished the Rostelecom Cup in bronze position Saturday for their fourth medal in as many figure skating competitions this season.

A clean, fifth-place performance in Saturday's free skate was enough for Canada's Keegan Messing to hold off Russia's Andrei Mozalev for the win at figure skating's Golden Spin of Zagreb in Croatia.

Vanessa James and Eric Radford withdrew from the pairs competition at the Canadian figure skating championships before Saturday's free program in Ottawa.

Veteran pairs duo Vanessa James and Eric Radford were named to Canada's Olympic figure skating team for Beijing on Sunday, despite withdrawing from the Canadian championships a day earlier.

Some educators are giving history classes new relevance by teaching students to be junior historians: offering engaging entry points into Canada's past and inspiring connections to the world today.

Windsor Light Music Theatre's production of A Christmas Story: The Musical will feature sign language interpreters at the Nov. 22 show to make the entertainment accessible to those who are deaf or hard of hearing.

The Town of Tecumseh will be getting six new EV charging stations, the province announced Tuesday, in a bid to "support the electrification of transportation across the province."

Concerns are mounting over the potential environmental impact on fish populations following the destruction of Kamloops' historic Red Bridge, which collapsed into the South Thompson River during a fire.

A group of residential school survivors and their supporters are asking the federal government to reverse what they're calling a funding cut and come up with more money to help find the unmarked graves of students who went to these institutions.

The pay cut comes after city council had already taken a number of steps against the mayor, including stripping him of his duties as a city spokesperson, removing him from the Thompson Nicola Regional District board and Shuswap Watershed Council and relocating his office to the basement of city hall. 

Canadian swingman RJ Barrett was upgraded to day-to-day and engaged in non-contact practise on Monday, two days before Toronto hosts the Cleveland Cavaliers at Scotiabank Arena.

A former student of federal Indian boarding schools in the U.S. says Joe Biden's rare presidential apology was long overdue. "They should have done it years ago," says 74-year-old Rosie Yellowhair.

The US Treasury yield curve inverted in the summer before flipping back, bringing relief to investors. What is the private sector yield curve indicating?

Investor pricing reveals expectations for rates, dividends, and inflation.

Hired in July by the Seattle Kraken as an assistant coach after two seasons with their AHL affiliate, Jessica Campbell is starting to get to know the team, schedule demands and managing "the vigorous push through it all." It's also about managing the attention as a trailblazer.

The records just keep falling for the Jets under new head coach Scott Arniel.

Italian police have uncovered a large-scale pan-European forgery network making and selling fake artworks attributed to some of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art including Banksy, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol.

The impact of Donald Trump's election win on Nov. 5 will be felt globally, especially in China — one of the world's emerging superpowers and one of the United States' biggest trading partners. The relationship could also affect Canada.

The Ontario Liberal Party is pledging to reduce the income tax rate for middle class families and eliminate provincial sales tax on hydro bills, if they win in the 2026 election.

Statistics Canada data reviewed by CBC Toronto shows a dramatic shift in criminal outcomes in Ontario over the last decade. The majority of criminal cases in the province have ended with charges being withdrawn, stayed, dismissed or discharged before a decision at trial since 2020.

The Toronto Police Services Board unanimously approved a new five-year hiring plan for the force on Tuesday.

Some Ukrainians living in Calgary say they're even more worried for their friends and family back home in light of Donald Trump's election win.

The Calgary-based team beat Hamilton Forge FC in a 2-1 nail-biter at home on Saturday, in front of a sold-out crowd of over 7,000 fans at Spruce Meadows.

It's not a complete surprise that curling and other sports have been cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it doesn't make it any easier on teams that had their hopes of representing Northern Ontario at a national curling level dashed.

The OCA's decision Friday to announce that Rachel Homan's team would only represent the province at the national championship if the skip wasn't picked for the Olympic mixed doubles team generated criticism from some corners and confusion from others.

Rachel Homan and John Morris weren't the only ones celebrating after their selection to wear the Maple Leaf in mixed doubles curling competition at the Beijing Olympics. The nomination also cleared the path for Team Hollie Duncan to represent Ontario at the national championship.

Newly announced mixed doubles duo Rachel Homan and John Morris, skips Jennifer Jones and Brad Gushue, and broadcasters Mike Harris, Joanne Courtney and Bruce Rainnie all break down a busy week in curling news.

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A researcher may have many reasons for wanting to establish new laboratory colonies from field-collected mosquitoes. In particular, the ability to study the diversity found within and among natural populations in a controlled laboratory environment opens up a wide range of possibilities for understanding how and why burdens of vector-borne disease vary over space and time. However, field-collected mosquitoes are often more difficult to work with than established laboratory strains, and considerable logistical challenges are involved in safely transporting field-collected mosquitoes into the laboratory. Here, we provide advice for researchers working with Aedes aegypti, Anopheles gambiae, and Culex pipiens, as well as notes on other closely related species. We provide guidance on each stage of the life cycle and highlight the life stages for which it is easiest to initiate new laboratory colonies for each species. In accompanying protocols, we provide methods detailing Ae. aegypti egg collection and hatching as well as how to transport larvae and pupae from the field.

CRISPR–Cas9 has revolutionized gene editing for traditional and nontraditional model organisms alike. This tool has opened the door to new mechanistic studies of basic mosquito biology as well as the development of novel vector control strategies based on CRISPR–Cas9, including gene drives that spread genetic elements in the population. Although the promise of the specificity, flexibility, and ease of deployment CRISPR is real, its implementation still requires empirical optimization for each new species of interest, as well as to each genomic target within a given species. Here, we provide an overview of designing and testing single-guide RNAs for the use of CRISPR-based gene editing tools.

Anautogenous female mosquitoes, which ingest a blood meal from warm-blooded vertebrates to produce eggs, have become a valuable model organism for investigating signaling pathways and physiological processes that occur during egg development. Different molecular pathways tightly regulate the initiation of egg development and are governed by a balance among different insect hormones. Gravid (mature egg-carrying) females deposit fully developed eggs at the end of each gonotrophic cycle, which is defined as the time interval between the ingestion of a blood meal to oviposition. An intact eggshell protects the oocyte and embryo inside from external factors such as desiccation, physical damage, etc., and the various eggshell proteins are spatially and temporary deposited during oogenesis. Additionally, follicle resorption (oosorption) during blood meal–induced mosquito ovarian follicle development is an adapted physiological process that optimizes reproductive fitness. Mosquito oocytes grow and mature synchronously throughout oogenesis; however, during the later stages of oogenesis, some oocytes may undergo oosorption if sufficient nutrients are unavailable. This introduction highlights how mosquito egg development can be used to investigate follicular resorption and identify proteins involved in eggshell formation in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.