Mayor John Tory and several other dignitaries are expected to attend a church service this morning dedicated to late Toronto city councillor Pam McConnell. The service will be held at the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto on Simpson Avenue, near Gerrard Street and Carlaw Avenue in Riverdale. McConnell passed awayRead More

Ont:  An 18-year-old woman from Belleville, Ont. died this week while on a trip to Cuba to celebrate graduating high school, her family said Saturday. Alex Sagriff was found unresponsive in her hotel room in Varadero, Cuba on Thursday night, her cousin Brock Tufts wrote to reporters on Saturday. HeRead More

HAMBURG – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a private meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel early today just prior to the official start of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. The two spoke briefly about Trudeau’s children for the cameras before going behind closed doors for a 30-minute private meetingRead More

TORONTO – The federal government has paid former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr 10.5-million dollars as part of a deal to settle his long-standing lawsuit over the violations of his rights. A source familiar with the situation told The Canadian Press that the Liberal government wanted to get ahead ofRead More

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government’s efforts to draw in foreign cash to help fund big infrastructure projects in Canada will likely find little interest from China’s deep-pocketed investors, the country’s envoy to Ottawa says. Ambassador Lu Shaye told The Canadian Press he doesn’t think Chinese investors will want to endureRead More

A Sunwing flight headed from Montreal to Cayo Coco, Cuba had to turn around and be escorted back by an F-15 fighter jet after an unruly passenger allegedly made “non-specific threats.” “We can confirm that flight WG604 which departed Montreal’s Dorval airport for Cayo Coco earlier this evening turned aroundRead More

LONDON – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that his country and Ireland should seize the opportunity to be open and progressive as their big neighbours, the U.S. and Britain, turn inward. Trudeau said there are “tremendous opportunities for countries like Canada and Ireland at a time where perhapsRead More

OTTAWA – The federal government plans to sink $2 billion into trade and transport infrastructure, including trade routes along the border with the United States that have become clogged and are in dire need of expansion. At times, the Canadian and U.S. governments may end up sharing costs on borderRead More

DUBLIN – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is leaning on Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar to help convince his European counterparts to give the go-ahead to the Canada-Europe free trade agreement. The wide-ranging Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA, was settled last year after more than seven years of talks,Read More

TOWNSEND, Ont. – The long grass sways as a soft summer wind sweeps under two strange structures, blowing with it the faint smell of manure, in an otherwise empty Ontario field. Under one, which looks like a tiny house on stilts, Myles Falconer carefully removes five barn swallow chicks fromRead More