Toronto, Ontario has launched a three-year, $25-million initiative to support business, employment and training opportunities in aboriginal communities. The Aboriginal Economic Development Fund was first announced by the Liberal government in the 2014 budget, but details of the program were not revealed until Tuesday. Aboriginal Affairs Minister David ZimmerRead More

  Toronto, A new poll from Forum Research is painting a much different picture of the Toronto mayoral race than several recent surveys which gave John Tory a double-digit lead over Doug Ford. The telephone poll of 1,208 residents, which was conducted on Monday, has found that Tory has theRead More

  Toronto, Mayor Rob Ford is considering apologizing for making a racist statement that his brother is now taking heat for. Mayoral candidate Doug Ford got into hot water Sunday during a debate hosted by Toronto’s Jewish community when his rival Ari Goldkind said he would begin tackling anti-Semitism byRead More

  Ottawa,  Canada is all but certain to miss its Copenhagen Accord target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, the country’s environmental watchdog warned Tuesday. And not only has the Harper government failed to introduce regulations to limit the amount of carbon dioxide produced by the oil and gasRead More

  Toronto, Students and staff at two Toronto high schools are grieving today after two students were shot to death in Etobicoke on Monday afternoon. The shooting occurred in a park behind The School of Experiential Education, an alternative high school in the area of Islington Avenue and Dixon Road,Read More

  Obama made the announcement on Monday after being briefed by Dr Thomas Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, Obama did not specify how screening would be changed. Frieden said that officials would explore a variety of options. Obama also called for moreRead More

Hong Kong: Representatives of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters Tuesday agreed to hold official talks with the government. Though no date was set, the students made it clear the talks would be called off if the remaining demonstrators were cleared from the streets by force, BBC reported. As the protests continuedRead More

Beijing: A powerful quake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale hit southwest China Tuesday night. No casualty was reported immediately, according to Xinhua. The temblor, with a focal depth of just five km, was felt strongly in Jinggu Dai and Yi autonomous county of Yunnan province, having a population ofRead More

Kiev: Ukraine appealed to Western powers for support as its truce with pro-Russian rebels seemed increasingly in tatters with 12 deaths reported on Tuesday in the separatist east. The toll was one of the highest reported since the signing of the September 5 truce agreement, and brings the number ofRead More

  It’s the presidential election that just keeps surprising. A year after a spasm of huge anti-government protests across Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff piled up more votes in Sunday’s election than any challenger, but it wasn’t enough to avoid a runoff in three weeks. The race kept up its unpredictableRead More