Toronto, John Tory has become the target of heavy criticism for the second time this week after pulling out of more mayoral debates. A debate on the future of Toronto’s waterfront, hosted by the Waterfront Business Improvement Area and the Bathurst Quay Neighbourhood Association, was scheduled to take place atRead More

Ottawa, The United Nations Children’s Fund is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to use his coming speech at the General Assembly to push for progress on saving young mothers and newborns in the developing world. The call for action comes as UNICEF released a report Tuesday morning that showedRead More

Richmond/B.C. – A tentative deal has been reached in the British Columbia teachers’ strike, a mediator confirmed Tuesday. The breakthrough in negotiations came on the fifth day of talks at a Richmond, B.C., hotel between the union and the employers’ association with the help of Vince Ready. Ready, known forRead More

Toronto, Canada is donating $2.5 million worth of the specialized medical gear used to protect health-care workers who are treating Ebola patients in West Africa, the federal government announced late Monday. Health Minister Rona Ambrose said the equipment — known as personal protective equipment or PPE — will be givenRead More

Toronto, Rob Ford is waiting for the results of a lung biopsy following a scope conducted Monday. The Toronto mayor, who was hospitalized and diagnosed with an abdominal tumour last week, is waiting for test results to determine the severity of his tumour. Right now, it’s unclear whether the massRead More

Washington, US President Barack Obama has identified India among 22 major illicit drug-producing or drug-transit countries that “significantly affect the United States” and asked it to support Afghanistan’s counter-narcotics efforts. Of these 22, three countries — Bolivia, Burma, and Venezuela — “failed demonstrably” during the last 12 months to fulfilRead More

San Francisco, Raging wildfires damaged or destroyed over 100 buildings in California on Monday and forced hundreds to evacuate in the drought-stricken US state, officials said. The Boles Fire, one of up to a dozen blazes gripping the state amid a heatwave, erupted near the town of Weed, some 280Read More

Geneva, The number of Ebola cases in West Africa could start doubling every three weeks and it could end up costing nearly $1 billion to contain the crisis, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday. Even as President Barack Obama was expected to announce the deployment of 3,000 American troops toRead More

Hong Kong, A powerful typhoon slammed into China’s Hainan island on Tuesday after sweeping past Hong Kong where it disrupted flights and forced the closure of the stock market and container ports. Typhoon Kalmaegi buffeted Hong Kong with gusts of up to 159 kilometres (98 miles) per hour as it barrelledRead More

Rome, The number of hungry people in the world has dropped by 100 million over the last 10 years, though one in nine are still undernourished, with Asia home to the majority of the underfed, the UN said Tuesday. The UN`s food agencies said the global number was down overRead More