SAN FRANCISCO — An apparent close call involving an Air Canada flight at San Francisco International Airport has sparked investigations from the airline and U.S. aviation authorities. An Air Canada Airbus A320 from Toronto was cleared to land on one of the runways just before midnight on Friday when theRead More

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is expected to raise its key interest rate target for the first time in nearly seven years on Wednesday following signs the economy is well on the road to recovery after the crash in oil prices. Low interest rates have helped fuel the housingRead More

TORONTO — The CEO of Sotheby’s International Realty Canada says a modest increase in the overnight lending rate will probably have very little impact on the Canadian housing market, particularly in the high-end segment. Brad Henderson says high net worth individuals tend to be less affected by increases in interestRead More

Durham Regional Police say a resident of an Oshawa apartment building used bear spray to repel three people who were allegedly attempting to force their way into their home last weekend. Police say they were called to an apartment building on Wentworth Street East in Oshawa at 10:30 p.m. onRead More

CORNWALL, Ont. – An eastern Ontario city is facing a human rights complaint over its policy on female toplessness in pools, more than two decades after it became legal for women bare their breasts in public in the province. Cornwall Mayor Leslie O’Shaughnessy said a woman has complained to theRead More

TORONTO — Ontario’s bid to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour — a move that is feared by businesses but has the support of some prominent economists — is being put to the public this week. The Liberal government’s proposed legislation on labour reforms, which also includes equalRead More

ASHCROFT, B.C. — Angie Thorne hugged her granddaughter as she looked for the first time at the blackened pit where her home of 21 years had stood just days earlier. She and a caravan of friends and family drove up to the Ashcroft Indian Reserve on Sunday to see whatRead More

Police in Huron County are asking the public for help locating a nine-year-old Cambridge girl who was last seen leaving the home of a relative in Ethel on Wednesday night. According to police, nine-year-old Alexandra Deacon was visiting family on Brandon Road in Ethel, located about 100 kilometres north ofRead More

Kamloops (British Columbia), July 9:  Some 180 wildfires raged over a massive section of Western Canada’s British Columbia on Saturday, prompting the evacuation of 3,000 households and the province’s first state of emergency in 14 years. The blazes were scattered across hundreds of kilometers of the interior portion of the province,Read More

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Ground and air crews are preparing for another day battling dozens of out-of-control wildfires that drove thousands of residents from their homes in British Columbia’s central Interior. The continuing hot, dry and often windy conditions are making it a desperate struggle, one that evacuees throughout the regionRead More