TORONTO — Air Canada says about 100 Canadians who had been barred by local authorities from a flight leaving Turks and Caicos will now be allowed to fly home. Hurricane Irma caused extensive flooding in the islands last week, with water reaching above the waist in some areas. Air CanadaRead More

TORONTO — A long-awaited and politically sensitive criminal trial involving allegations of document destruction in the Ontario premier’s office is finally set to start Monday with the defence expected to ask for an adjournment. A lawyer for one of former premier Dalton McGuinty’s two top aides — each charged withRead More

TORONTO — Major labour law changes, including a $15 minimum wage, and marijuana will be on the front burner as Ontario’s legislature returns from its summer break on Monday. But the business of legislating also resumes at the same time as two Liberal trials get underway and are sure toRead More

TORONTO — A Hamilton church says it’s hoping to move hundreds of centuries-old graves in order to make way for modern-day condo dwellers. Christ’s Church Cathedral, more commonly known as Cathedral Place, says its current parking lot was built over top a 19th-century graveyard containing the remains of hundreds ofRead More

Ottawa: Some Canadian medical students who managed to escape before hurricane Irma pummelled St. Maarten are urging the federal government to do more to bring home their colleagues who weren’t so lucky. Dulani Samarappuli of Calgary, who just finished her first year at the American University of the Caribbean School,Read More

WINNIPEG — Don’t just oppose. Instead, propose. That’s the political plan ahead for the Conservatives this fall, and there’s a reason Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer is going to repeat it to his MPs a lot in the coming months. When the party hired Australian conservative strategist Brian Loughnane to reviewRead More

TORONTO — Ontario’s plan to sell and distribute recreational pot exclusively through a network of government-operated stores could lock in the dominance of the country’s large-scale licensed marijuana producers and weed craft growers out of the market, industry experts said Friday. Two of the country’s biggest producers, Aphria Inc. (TSX:APH)Read More

Mississauga: – Two people are dead and another person has been taken to hospital following a single-vehicle crash in Mississauga early Saturday morning, police confirm. Reports from the scene indicate that the vehicle veered off the roadway and slammed into some trees on Royal Windsor Drive near Avonhead Road atRead More

Toronto : Ford Nation is back. Former city councillor Doug Ford officially announced he will be running for mayor of Toronto in 2018. Ford made the highly publicized announcement on Friday evening at his family’s 23rd annual “Ford Fest,” hosted at his mother’s house in Etobicoke. The announcement comes afterRead More

Toronto:- Toronto’s deputy mayor is apologizing for comments he made about the city’s outgoing chief planner after backlash from critics who called his words sexist. Denzil Minnan-Wong told the Toronto Sun last week that Jennifer Keesmaat “should stick to the knitting,” meaning city planning, rather than weighing in on other matters.Read More