Kobe Li founded 20/20 Mission in 2023 and has collected and refurbished thousands of donated eyeglasses for underserved communities, partnering with Rayjon Share Care. He is one of 75 recipients of The Starfish Climate75 fellowship and won the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award in 2025.
Metrolinx listed 57 partial properties along the Main–King LRT corridor that may be expropriated and said no buildings will be affected; the agency previously purchased at least 97 full properties and had removed 62 buildings as of last September.
The article reports that the Immigration and Refugee Board adopted a “File Review” process that accepted many refugee claims on written files without in-person hearings, and that Canada’s asylum backlog rose from about 17,000 in 2016 to nearly 300,000 in 2025.
The U.S. Department of Commerce issued a final determination in a Chinese graphite anti-dumping investigation, and the related company news release includes forward-looking statements and a caution that actual results may differ.
VIA Rail's Sudbury–White River route has been out of service since Jan. 28 with service expected to resume Feb. 21, and the Azilda community held its first WinterFEST on Feb. 15.
South West Terminal Limited acquired Solo Italia Fine Pasta in December 2025, and the shop's founders will continue to help run the Ogema, Saskatchewan operation as the company adds storage and plans to expand production.
Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area will mark Ramadan with sign unveilings, community iftars, markets and library storytimes; several events are scheduled in late February and into mid‑March.
Jesse Jackson, a prominent U.S. civil rights leader who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988, has died at 84, his family said. He disclosed a Parkinson's diagnosis in 2017.
Researchers sequenced a bacterial strain, Psychrobacter SC65A.3, from Romania's Scarisoara Ice Cave and reported genes for resistance to multiple modern antibiotic classes in a paper in Frontiers in Microbiology; the team says the strain also produces antimicrobial compounds and will pursue biochemical analysis.
Files obtained through access-to-information requests show Transport Canada raised concerns in the 1980s about toxic effluent from firefighter training foams that are now known to contain PFAS; some local water sources today exceed Health Canada PFAS guidelines and proposed class actions and cleanup efforts are active.
