Toronto: Mayor John Tory marked the first day back to school by unveiling one of seven new school safety zones across the city. Tory, Public Works Chair Jaye Robinson, Toronto police Supt. Gord Jones and public health physician Sara Whitehead were on hand for the news conference at Grenoble PublicRead More

TORONTO – Serina Manek has been living in Leslieville for seven years, and has watched it go from a rough-around-the-edges area in Toronto’s east end, to one of the city’s most desirable neighbourhoods. The demand for Leslieville was always building, she says, but when the condos started going up, theRead More

MEXICO CITY — Negotiators have run into a series of early sticking points on nearly every major element considered key to achieving a new NAFTA agreement, The Canadian Press has learned. A recurring pattern involves one country raising a prized priority only to have other parties systematically refuse to engageRead More

Toronto : Canada’s construction industry may soon have a better idea of how attractive it is to the increasingly globalized building sector as one of its biggest catches sits on the auction block awaiting bidders. Toronto-based Aecon Group Inc. is in the process of courting suitors after it put itRead More

The long weekend is here! There are plenty of fun things to do around the city over the Labour Day weekend but there are also a number of road closures to watch out for. The city says that four events happening around Toronto will result in road closures this weekendRead More

TORONTO – Ontario residents with disabilities are seeing major changes to provincial programs offering financial support and medical coverage. Effective Friday, the government is loosening some of the stringent rules governing the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) and Ontario Works (OW). The two are the primary social support systems forRead More

OTTAWA — When Ann Speers retired from her federal government job more than a year ago, she noticed something wrong with her bank account; she had been overpaid on her final paycheque. Several months and countless emails and phone calls later, the 56-year-old Toronto resident thought the problem had beenRead More

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. – A municipal leader in British Columbia’s central Interior says he wouldn’t be surprised if wildfires that have chewed through more than 10,600 square kilometres of woodland aren’t fully out until 2018. Chairman Al Richmond of the Cariboo Regional District said hot spots from many of theRead More

Ottawa  : Student leaders running the University of Ottawa’s orientation week events won’t be allowed to administer the opioid antidote naloxone in the event of an overdose due to liability concerns if the injection were to go wrong. Hadi Wess, president of the undergraduate student union that runs the events,Read More

OTTAWA – The second round of negotiations for a new North American Free Trade Agreement kick off today in Mexico. The NAFTA talks came up briefly yesterday during a phone conversation between Prime Minister Trudeau and U.S. President Trump. The two leaders talked about their hopes to work out aRead More