Opinion: 2020 draft budget too rich for my blood

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By: Karen Wolfe I’m thinking the 2020 draft budget brought down by the Town of Georgina on October 23rd is going to result in a...

‘The Social’ cast member Jessica Allen clarifies Cherry comments

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TORONTO — A correspondent on the Canadian daytime talk show “The Social” has clarified her hot-button on-air comments about Don Cherry’s firing from “Hockey Night...

Ontario trumpets digital health strategy with video visits, online bookings

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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliiott says in about two years, patients will be able to book more appointments online and review...

Reaction to Don Cherry marks ‘a divisiveness in Canadian social life,’...

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TORONTO — When sociology professor Kristi Allain saw that “Hockey Night in Canada” commentator Don Cherry was fired for on-air, anti-immigrant remarks Monday, she...

Ontario starts merging health agencies, fires nine LHIN executives

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TORONTO — Ontario is starting to merge the province’s major health agencies such as Cancer Care Ontario and eHealth under one umbrella and firing the...

High school teachers to reveal strike vote results, discuss ‘next steps’

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TORONTO — The union representing Ontario’s high school teachers will be releasing the results of their strike votes today. A media advisory also says the...

Ontario’s memorial to veterans of Afghanistan war ready for next Remembrance...

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TORONTO — A memorial to honour veterans of the war in Afghanistan that is being built on the grounds of the Ontario legislature will...

Health Canada ‘actively monitoring’ U.S. vaping illness breakthrough

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OTTAWA — Canadian health officials say they are closely monitoring an apparent U.S. breakthrough into the cause of a mysterious vaping illness. The U.S. Centers...

Metis veterans get long-awaited recognition ahead of Remembrance Day

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OTTAWA — A fiddle played the sombre strains of the Last Post and Amazing Grace during a special ceremony Friday to remember the contributions...

Trudeau defends NATO as French president warns of alliance’s ‘brain death’

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending NATO after France’s president suggested a lack of U.S. leadership is causing the 70-year-old military alliance’s...

Holocaust educators, survivors fear lessons of the past fading with new...

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TORONTO — Teaching teens about the horrors of the Holocaust is more than just a history lesson for high school teacher Rachel Luke. The language...

More Canadians plan to attend Remembrance Day ceremonies this year: poll

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TORONTO — A new survey suggests more Canadians are planning to mark Remembrance Day this year, perhaps in a salute to the few remaining veterans of the...

Almost half of all First Nations families are ‘food insecure’: 10-year...

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OTTAWA — Rates of obesity and diabetes are higher among First Nations adults than in the general Canadian population, while almost half of all Indigenous families...

Ontario’s fiscal update shows a government trying to undo damage from...

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TORONTO — Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government is reaching into its pockets for hundreds of millions of dollars to undo some of the damage caused by...

New Senate group forms to push regional interests in a fractured...

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OTTAWA — Canada’s Senate took another step Monday in its evolution toward a less partisan chamber of sober second thought as 11 senators banded together to form a new independent caucus...