Ontario fall storm brings rain, strong winds and possible first snowflakes - The Weather Network

An incoming fall storm is bringing rain and strong winds to Ontario on Friday, followed by a sharp drop in temperatures that could deliver the season’s first lake-effect snowflakes to parts of southern Ontario. Temperatures will fall sharply behind the departing system, with the coldest conditions expected overnight Friday into Saturday. DON'T MISS: Winter snowfall across Canada may fall victim to El NiñoRain eases as cold air moves inRain will gradually ease across much of Ontario through Friday, although scattered showers are expected to linger. Rainfall totals could reach 20-30 mm in parts of eastern Ontario, with locally higher amounts possible. Behind the storm, strong northerly winds will usher in much colder air, with gusts near 50 km/h. The winds will also generate higher-than-normal waves along the Great Lakes shorelines. Temperatures will drop rapidly overnight, with some inland areas potentially reaching or falling below the freezing mark.

Eighteen months ago, in an off-the-cuff remark during a discussion on disability benefit cuts, Wes Streeting said mental health conditions were being “overdiagnosed”, riding headlong into another culture war. He later apologised for the comment, but at the time it seemed the then health secretary had endorsed a populist view that ordinary stresses and disappointments had become too often medicalised, resulting in a surge of bogus clinical diagnoses and creating a “snowflake generation” of fragile, avoidant and workshy young people. Prof Peter Fonagy’s mammoth review of mental health conditions, autism and ADHD in England, commissioned by Streeting nine months ago, has no truck with the snowflake generation caricature: the steep rise in the prevalence of mental health problems such as anxiety and depression is real, he says, and so is the distress and difficulties they can cause. double quotation markI am in awe of their courage. Young people are contending with more powerful forces than I ever faced

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The 20th annual Cape to Cabot road race is taking place tomorrow. The grueling 20 km trek sees participants running from one historic landmark to another: From Cape Spear to Cabot Tower on top of Signal Hill. The race starts at 8 a.m., and because of that there are a few related road closures in St. John’s. Between 7:45 and 11a.m. there will be numerous road closures along the route. A full list can be found online at VOCM dot com. Expect traffic impacts from 7:45 a.m. to 11 a.m. on routes including Blackhead Road, Southside Road, Water Street, Harbour Drive, Duckworth Street, Temperance Street and Signal Hill Road.

On Monday, Albertans vote on whether to stay in Canada or hold another binding referendum on quitting Canada. If the vote goes as polls suggest, a majority of Albertans will mark an X to stay in Confederation, and Premier Danielle Smith has said if that’s so, she expects everyone to accept it and move on. Leaders of the independence movement contest that. And political watchers are divided about whether separation — previously a fringe sentiment — will now be a prominent, permanent feature of Alberta’s political landscape, as in Quebec. Julian Castro-Rea, a political-science professor at the University of Alberta who studies the separation debates in Quebec and Alberta, believes as long as Alberta feels alienated from the Canadian capital — feeling that Ottawa benefits from Alberta’s resource economy without giving back — the movement will have fuel. “Even if the referendum is lost, the westernization will still be around, because it’s kind of a way which, traditionally, Albertans have related to the rest of Canada,” says Castro-Rea, who believes western alienation may remain indefinitely. Story continues below advertisement