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News Update, 8:00am, Monday, March 16, 2026

News Update, 8:00am, Monday, March 16, 2026
News Desk
Mar 16, 2026 | 8:40 AM

It's Monday, March 16th. Good morning, 11 degrees in Newmarket Aurora. Gas jumped 10 cents from Friday. It's now $1.66 a liter. I'm Stacey Englehart. Well, with spring arriving on Friday and day one of March break today, expect a lot less traffic on the road this week, but expect weather advisories because we are not out of the woods yet. A large portion of the GTA expecting strong winds North of the GTA, they could get a snowstorm with anywhere from 15 to 40 centimeters. OPP are investigating 2 fatal collisions that involved snowmobiles yesterday. Police were called at about 1:00 in the morning east of Wawa where a 65-year-old person died. Police were later called that morning at 9 o'clock. A 19-year-old from Vaughan died after a snowmobile collided with a commercial vehicle at an intersection in Cochrane. if you don't like knowing how much our tax dollars are being wasted, you'll love this one. It's being called modernization, but on Friday, the Ontario government introduced legislation to keep documents from the premier and his cabinet ministers a secret. Well, fresh inflation data expected out today from StatsCan, a Reuters poll predicted the annual inflation rate to 1.9 from 2.3 Inflation data will be a factor in the Bank of Canada's next interest rate decision on Wednesday. The central bank has held its key rate at 2.25% last month. Hot Country Sports NHL last night. Leafs beat Minnesota 4-2. Alts were in Montreal, lost to Anaheim, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Ottawa all winners. Leafs host the Islanders tomorrow at 7. PWHL Toronto blank Seattle 2-0. In the NBA, the Raptors beat Detroit 119-108. They're in Chicago Wednesday at 8. Baseball preseason, the Jays lost to the Mets 8-1. They face Miami this afternoon at 1. And with the Paralympics in Italy wrapping up this weekend, Canada placed 8th in the medal standings with 15, including three gold, 4 silver, and eight bronze. Hot country weather, a special weather advisory. Now we've got showers today, windy 12 falling to four. Tonight, flurries, snow squalls, really cold and windy with a wind chill feeling minus 22. Flurries with a risk of snow squalls tomorrow. Strong winds. It'll feel minus 14 with the wind chill. Right now it's minus 11 in Newmarket Aurora. I'm Stacey Englehart.