Toronto:Premier Kathleen Wynne is acknowledging that governments need to provide more money for housing but she is stopping short of promising to chip in the province’s one-third share of a 10-year, $2.6 billion plan to repair aging Toronto Community Housing buildings. Wynne met with Mayor John Tory at Queen’s ParkRead More

TORONTO:The infrastructure that has been erected across the city and the region for the Pan American Games will put Toronto in a position to host a number of international sporting events going forward and may even pave the way for a possible Olympic bid, according to Mayor John Tory. ToryRead More

TORONTO — Veteran Progressive Conservative Garfield Dunlop is quitting as the MPP for Simcoe North so new party leader Patrick Brown can run for a seat in the Ontario legislature. Dunlop, who was first elected in 1999 to represent the longtime Conservative stronghold north of Barrie, announced Wednesday he wouldRead More

TORONTO — The temporary High Occupancy Vehicle lanes set up in the Toronto and Hamilton area for the Pan American Games will not become permanent, but they will likely return in the form of toll lanes. Premier Kathleen Wynne says she wants to apply lessons learned from the HOV lanesRead More

TORONTO — The Canadian dollar dropped to levels not seen in more than a decade as the price of oil and gold both came under pressure. The loonie was down 0.47 of a cent at 76.76 cents US. That’s the lowest level since September 2004. The dollar has been onRead More

SURUC,TURKEY: Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will chair a cabinet meeting today on bolstering security along the country’s porous border after a devastating bombing blamed on Islamic State jihadists. 32 people were killed and more than 100 wounded on Monday when a blast ripped through a gathering of young socialistRead More

More than a quarter century after being slapped with a fatwa from Iran calling for his murder over his book “The Satanic Verses”, Salman Rushdie says the world has learned the “wrong lessons” about freedom of expression. The British author, in an interview published Wednesday by the French news magazineRead More

TUNIS: Tunisian lawmakers began a three-day debate today on a new anti-terrorism bill aimed at beefing up powers to confront a jihadist threat following a spate of deadly attacks. President Beji Caid Essebsi imposed a state of emergency after a student went on a shooting rampage at a beach resortRead More

ISLAMABAD: At least four people were killed today when their pick-up truck was swept away by a seasonal stream in southwest Pakistan, officials said, the latest victims of torrential rain and flooding that began last week. Their deaths bring the overall toll from this year’s monsoon-linked floods to at leastRead More

TAIPEI: Around 200 students protested outside Taiwan’s education ministry today against what they say are “China-centric” changes to the school curriculum. Increasing fears in Taiwan over Beijing’s influence sparked a three-week occupation of parliament last year by student-led protesters opposing a trade pact with China. Several of the groups thatRead More