MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Ontario says it’s launching a three-year strategy to make the province’s education system more equitable and inclusive for people of all backgrounds and cultures. Education Minister Mitzie Hunter released details of the plan on Thursday, filling in some objectives of the three-year strategy that was previously projectedRead More

TORONTO – The Ontario government posted a $991-million deficit last year – and said Thursday it had beat its 2016 projections by $3.3 billion. But the province’s auditor general says the Liberal government is “significantly understating” its deficit, which she pegs at $1.4 billion. Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa andRead More

Toronto, India is the top country globally to get low-quality research published in ‘predatory’ journals, according to a study which found that it contributed 27 per cent of the scientific studies in bogus publications. The investigation, published in the journal Nature, also showed that majority of papers in suspected biomedical predatoryRead More

OTTAWA – The Bank of Canada has raised its interest rate for the second time in less than two months in an effort to adjust to the unexpected force of the country’s economic momentum. Wednesday’s hike of its overnight lending rate to 1.0 per cent marks its second quarter-point increaseRead More

Ontario: Two Ontario Liberals go on trial Thursday on Election Act bribery charges stemming from a 2015 byelection in Sudbury, but the stakes are also high for Premier Kathleen Wynne herself. The Sudbury trial happens nearly simultaneously with another Liberal trial — related to the cancellation of two gas plantsRead More

TORONTO — Ontario is reviewing its school curriculum with a focus on student achievement in core skills such as math. The announcement from Premier Kathleen Wynne today comes a week after standardized test results showed flat or falling math scores among public elementary school students. The tests showed that onlyRead More

MONTREAL — Air Transat has launched an airlift to get all its travellers out of the Dominican Republic ahead of the arrival of hurricane Irma. The Montreal-based airline said late Tuesday it was sending 10 aircraft to the Caribbean nation — seven to Punta Cana, two to Puerto Plata andRead More

Ontario:  Ontario’s education minister Mitzie Hunter says she is “very concerned” about an ongoing school bus driver shortage in the province. Students are heading back to the classroom on Tuesday after the summer break and school bus driver shortages have been reported in parts of the GTA, including Toronto, PeelRead More

SAINT JOHN, N.B. – Lawyers for Dennis Oland are to appear in a New Brunswick court today for a hearing to set a date for a new second-degree murder trial. The date was supposed to be set last month, but Oland’s lawyers and the Crown said there were matters theyRead More

TORONTO – As students return to classrooms this week, Canada’s largest school board says it will continue to block those using its Wi-Fi from accessing certain apps and websites. The Toronto District School Board says it is extending its ban on Snapchat, Instagram and Netflix in an effort to alleviateRead More