Toronto:- A North York city councillor is pushing for people who use or train guide dogs to be exempted from a new law banning choke chains and pronged dog collars. The bylaw, which was approved by council in January and went into effect last month, has been criticized by aRead More

OTTAWA — The federal minister in charge of crafting a national child care plan says that if the Liberals are going to take gender equity seriously, then they must do the same when it comes to the soaring cost of child care. Child care costs across the country, which canRead More

OTTAWA — The deadline for Conservative leadership contenders to sign up new members has passed. Kevin O’Leary was among the first out of the blocks to declare his membership total after the midnight cut-off, with an email blast declaring he had enlisted 33,336 members in 69 days. Lisa Raitt toldRead More

MONTREAL — Bombardier’s senior executives saw their compensation rise by nearly 50 per cent last year at a time when it laid off thousands of workers, sought government aid and saw the first CSeries passenger jet take flight. Total compensation for the Montreal-based company’s top five executives and board chairmanRead More

Mumbai: There were reports of Sunil Grover returning to Kapil Sharma’s show, The Kapil Sharma Show, after being subjected to foul behaviour by the star comedian on a flight back home from Melbourne. Grover, however, confirms that he is not contemplating making a comeback on his former friend’s show. TalkingRead More

Los Angeles: Priyanka Chopra will be seen in the role of antagonist Victoria Leeds in her Hollywood debut ‘Baywatch’ and the actress says playing a baddie is “much more fun”. The 34-year-old star, who attended the Cinema Con 2017 with cast of the movie adaptation of popular TV series ofRead More

Washington: Bestselling cookbooks give little useful advice about reducing the risk of foodborne illness, especially in recipes involving meat products, say scientists who found that most of the information in the books are inaccurate and not based on sound science. “Cookbooks aren’t widely viewed as a primary source of food-safety information,Read More

Washington D.C.: Exposure to fungal product, called aflatoxin, is believed to cause up to 80 percent of liver cancer cases in many parts of the world. A new study by MIT researchers have developed a way to determine, by sequencing DNA of liver cells, whether those cells have been exposedRead More

Facebook is giving the camera a central place on its smartphone app for the first time, encouraging users to take more pictures and edit them with digital stickers that show the influence of rival Snapchat. Shares of Snapchat owner Snap Inc, which held its initial public offering this month, wereRead More

After the damaging recall of its fire-prone Note 7 smartphone, you could be forgiven for thinking Samsung would make a song and dance about battery safety in its new flagship phones, due to be launched in the United States on Wednesday. But in the run-up to the launch, crucial toRead More