{"id":86012,"date":"2026-08-20T09:55:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=86012"},"modified":"2026-08-20T05:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T09:27:23","slug":"thursday-morning-news-august-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/thursday-morning-news-august-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Morning News &#8211; August 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Weather:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today &#8211; Mainly sunny. Fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind becoming southwest 20 km\/h this afternoon. High 23. UV index 6 or high.<\/li>\n<li>Tonight &#8211; Increasing cloudiness. 40% chance of showers this evening and after midnight. Showers beginning after midnight. Risk of a thunderstorm overnight. Fog patches developing after midnight. Low 13.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>News Tidbits:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kilotile&#8217;s new album &#8220;Moon&#8221; is now available to listen on Spotify &amp; Apple Music and other digital music platforms.<\/li>\n<li>David Douglas, 73, who went missing on Friday after leaving Oshawa Executive Airport at about 8:30 a.m has been found with his aircraft in Wolf Lake (Queen Elizabeth II Provincial Park). Sad to hear that he was located deceased, but glad that his family will have closure.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">WSIB is closing 9 branch offices in Northern Ontario (Sudbury &#8211; 136, Thunder Bay &#8211; 55, Sault Ste. Marie &#8211; 20, North Bay &#8211; 15, and Timmins &#8211; 12) resulting in more than 238 job losses in Northern Ontario and the remainder in Southern Ontario. WSIB states that it is consolidating functions, with the union countering that in-person service for injured workers will suffer. WSIB provides wage-loss benefits, medical coverage and support to help people return to the job after a workplace injury or illness.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather: Today &#8211; Mainly sunny. Fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind becoming southwest 20 km\/h this afternoon. High 23. UV index 6 or high. Tonight &#8211; Increasing cloudiness. 40% chance of showers this evening and after midnight. Showers beginning after midnight. Risk of a thunderstorm overnight. Fog patches developing after midnight. Low 13. News Tidbits: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-27 10:20:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86012"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86051,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86012\/revisions\/86051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}