Source Feed: Global News - Canada
Author: Kevin Nielsen
Publication Date: August 27, 2025 - 05:00
Extreme heat, wildfires taking a toll on ticks in Atlantic Canada — for now
August 27, 2025

If temperatures become too hot, much-maligned ticks are at risk of drying out. The parasites survive by retreating to moist areas like leaf litter and in the soil.
Daylilies have gotten something of a bum rap over the years. The familiar species type – the scrawny “ditch lily” with orange flowers that blooms faithfully each July in fields and abandoned front yards – is often dismissed as a near-weed, the Rodney Dangerfield of garden plants. But actually, the daylily family – hemerocallis spp., from the […]
August 27, 2025 - 11:57 | Paul Welch | Ottawa Citizen
Premier Doug Ford is pressing the brakes on the idea of subsidizing tolls for trucks on Highway 407 because doing so would create lineups 'from here to Timbuktu.'
August 27, 2025 - 11:55 | Aaron D’Andrea | Global News - Canada
Premier Doug Ford is pressing the brakes on the idea of subsidizing tolls for trucks on Highway 407 because doing so would create lineups 'from here to Timbuktu.'
August 27, 2025 - 11:55 | Aaron D’Andrea | Global News - Ottawa
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