TORONTO – Rob Ford says Ontario’s new sexual-education curriculum makes him “absolutely sick.” The controversial former mayor of Toronto made his comments in an interview with The Rebel, an outlet run by former Sun TV host Ezra Levant. But Ford appears to have some details of the curriculum wrong. FordRead More

TORONTO — Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s friend Alexander (Sandro) Lisi has been found not guilty on drug-related charges. Lisi’s co-accused — Jamshid (Jay) Bahrami — was also found not guilty. Both men were charged with trafficking cannabis. Lisi, 36, was also charged with possession of a small quantity ofRead More

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Walmart is buying 13 of the former Target Canada stores plus a distribution centre in Cornwall, Ont. Walmart Canada says it will spend about $165 million for the leases and properties and a further $185 million on renovations. The $350-million plan is subject to court approval, asRead More

London, Prime Minister David Cameron today won a stunning majority in Britain, disproving predictions of a terribly hung Parliament and was on course to forming a single-party government ending a brief coalition era. The surprise surge ahead by the Conservatives, led by 48-year-old charismatic Cameron, saw the party come backRead More

Islamabad, Ambassadors of the Philippines and Norway and at least five others were killed after a Pakistani military helicopter carrying 11 foreigners and six Pakistan nationals on Friday crashed into a school in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir’s Gilgit-Baltistan in the north. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the incident andRead More

London, The leader of Britain’s anti-immigrant United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) turned to the words of Mahatma Gandhi to imply his party gaining ground from the fringes of British politics. Nigel Farage, who has pushed the Liberal Democrats down to fourth position to capture third place after the ruling ConservativesRead More

London, A record number of 10 Indian-origin candidates, including Keith Vaz, Priti Patel and Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy’s son-in-law, were today elected to the British Parliament. Prominent Labour candidates like long-serving MPs Keith Vaz (Leicester East) and Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall) have won their respective seats, as they have aRead More

Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has clinched a 11th-hour deal with a right-wing party to form a hard-line coalition government that could pose a major challenge to any global initiative to break the logjam in peace talks with the Palestinians. Netanyahu, 65, seemed visibly tense as coalition talks withRead More

Sydney, A powerful earthquake rattled Papua New Guinea on Thursday, the fourth strong quake to hit the South Pacific island nation in a week. The temblor prompted officials to issue a local tsunami warning, but it was lifted shortly afterwards with no reports of damage. The 7.1-magnitude quake struck aboutRead More

Baghdad, Militants carried out a series of suicide attacks on Friday against Shiite mosques in northeastern Iraq killing at least 22 worshippers, including a senior police officer, officials said. In the town of Balad Ruz, a suicide car bomber attacked the al-Zahraa mosque as worshippers were leaving after the FridayRead More