Ontario provincial government reaches deal with education workers, avoid strike
TORONTO — A strike that would have closed hundreds of schools across Ontario was averted Sunday night as the province reached a tentative deal...
Feds fight ruling on compensation for failures in First Nations child...
OTTAWA — First Nations chiefs are expressing outrage and disappointment at the federal government’s decision to appeal a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling ordering Ottawa to...
Ontario government reverses cuts to child benefit, children’s aid services
TORONTO — Ontario is reversing funding cuts to a child benefit program that helps low-income families and refugee claimants as it conducts a broader review of...
YRDSB will close schools Monday if education workers strike
TORONTO — Hundreds of schools across Ontario are set to close their doors on Monday if the province’s education workers go through with a threatened strike,...
Meet Your York-Simcoe Candidates: Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Liberal
What can you do to lessen the financial burden on middle-class families?
The Liberal government
has made historic investments over the past four years to help...
UN seat not top priority, Scheer says after pledging foreign-aid cuts
OTTAWA — Andrew Scheer wants the world to know the Conservatives would bring Canada back — in a very different way.
“It’s time for Canada...
Ontario considering alternative to pot wholesale model: sources
TORONTO — Ontario is considering alternative cannabis distribution models and intends to launch a consultation process in the coming weeks, according to sources familiar...
Re-elected Liberals would still run big deficits, despite new taxes
OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau tried to make virtue out of red ink Sunday as he released a Liberal platform that promises to impose new taxes on wealthy individuals,...
Ontario education workers begin work-to-rule campaign as contract talks degrade
TORONTO — Tens of thousands of education workers across Ontario have begun a work-to-rule campaign in a bid to pressure the provincial government into making concessions...
Scheer offers tax credit for green home renovations after Trudeau attacks
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer pivoted his campaign to the environment on Wednesday, announcing a tax credit for homeowners who make energy-saving renovations following a scathing attack...
Canada’s wireless speeds would rank 12th in world if only rural...
TORONTO — The international research firm Opensignal reports that rural parts of Canada get much slower wireless services than in cities — but they’re still...
Beyak thumbs nose at Senate orders on racist letters about Indigenous...
OTTAWA — Racist letters about Indigenous Peoples have finally been removed from Sen. Lynn Beyak’s website — but only because Senate officials erased them after Beyak...
Case of 11 disqualified Ontario pot shop licence applicants in court...
TORONTO — An Ontario court is expected to hear the case today of 11 people who won the chance to apply for a cannabis...
Fallout from Trudeau’s brownface photo bombshell sure to dominate campaign
OTTAWA — It won’t be campaigning as usual for Justin Trudeau today as the Liberal leader grapples with the fallout from a bombshell that...
Ford acknowledges problems with anti-carbon-tax stickers, vows to get it fixed
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the government’s provincewide campaign to criticize the federal carbon tax just isn’t sticking.
That’s because the stickers decrying the tax,...
















































