Toronto, Mayor John Tory is praising the recently released 2015 provincial budget and says the document proves the province is committed to helping Toronto build SmartTrack. Speaking at city hall shortly after this year’s budget was tabled Thursday, Tory told reporters that province’s commitment to funding the electrification of theRead More

Toronto, Ontario put forward a budget today that held few funding surprises, provided some good news for drivers and maintained a tough line for public sector workers. Here is a breakdown of the budget highlights and how it will affect the average person living in Toronto and the GTHA. Winners:Read More

Toronto, A published report says Jim Doak, a well-known Bay Street personality who appeared as a commentator on business channel BNN, has died while on business in Mongolia. The Globe and Mail, citing sources, said Doak, 59, was found dead Thursday morning in a hotel room. Doak was chairman ofRead More

Ottawa, The Speaker of Canada’s Senate, Pierre Claude Nolin, has died, leaving the much-maligned institution without a leader in the midst of its greatest crisis. A spokeswoman for the Senate says Nolin died just after 7 p.m. Thursday. The 64-year-old, appointed to the Senate in 1993 by Brian Mulroney, hadRead More

New York, US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has cited the example of Indian women entrepreneurs joining forces to secure micro-finance loans as she made a clarion call to achieving equal pay, ending sexual violence and providing equal opportunities to women across the world. In one of her first major speechesRead More

Brussels/Rome, European Union leaders will reverse a cutback in rescue operations in the Mediterranean on Thursday to try to prevent record numbers of people drowning as they try to flee war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa. But an emergency EU summit in Brussels, called after up toRead More

Washington, An American and an Italian who had been held hostage for several years by Al-Qaida in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan were inadvertently killed in a US counterterrorism operation in January, President Barack Obama said on Thursday. “I profoundly regret what happened. On behalf of the UnitedRead More

Vienna, Iran and major powers held a second day of talks today seeking to finalise a historic deal that would make any attempt by Tehran to make a nuclear weapon extremely difficult and easily detectable. Meeting in Vienna, Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plusRead More

London, A 14-year-old boy, believed to be the youngest person in the UK to be charged with terror offences, has been remanded to custody for inciting terrorism in Australia. The boy from Blackburn, in the north-west of England, who was arrested earlier this month, appeared before Westminster Magistrates’ Court today. TheRead More

Sanaa, An Iranian ship convoy suspected of carrying weapons for Shiite rebels in Yemen has turned back, US officials said, as Saudi-led warplanes kept up air strikes on the anti-government forces. The conflict has sent tensions soaring between Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran, which backs the Houthi rebels, raisingRead More