TORONTO – Ontario’s NDP is proposing a $475-million pharmacare plan covering 125 drugs, which they believe could be introduced without program cuts or new taxes, although they’re not ruling them out. Party leader Andrea Horwath says if her party wins the 2018 election, it will bring in the plan toRead More

HAMILTON – Residents of Hamilton, Lindsay and Thunder Bay areas will be the first Ontarians to receive a guaranteed minimum income as part of a new provincial pilot project. Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the details of the province’s three-year basic income project today in Hamilton. She said the level ofRead More

MONCTON, N.B. — The wife of one of three New Brunswick Mounties killed by a gunman on June 4, 2014, says a trial against the RCMP, that starts today, will be emotional but necessary. Nadine Larche says change is needed in the RCMP before tragic history repeats itself. Her husband,Read More

Calgary, Calgary police say the death of a three-month-old baby in 2015 has been ruled a homicide. Police say Cyrus Nel was found in need of medical attention in August 2015 at his family home. Paramedics took the boy to hospital but he died a day later. Police won’t releaseRead More

Ont., A Canadian man has pleaded guilty to attempting to export fentanyl products and other synthetic drugs from China into the United States. A release from the U.S. Attorney in New York says Karl Morrison, 59, of Kitchener, Ont., faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and a fineRead More

Toronto: The challenges of criminally prosecuting sexual assault cases have some complainants turning to human rights tribunals in an effort to bring about systemic change and seek restitution. The latest case involves a complaint by a woman against the University of Toronto that was filed with the Human Rights TribunalRead More

WATERLOO, Ont. — The Ontario city best known for headquartering BlackBerry may soon be known for an entirely different commodity — dog poop. Waterloo will soon be the home of a pilot program that will turn dog waste into energy, using a process called anaerobic digestion that happens when organicRead More

HAMILTON — A east coast dog that went missing in Ontario for nearly two days after being placed on a wrong flight has been found. A Labradoodle named Cooper was supposed to be flown on a WestJet flight from Halifax to Deer Lake, N.L., on Wednesday to stay with familyRead More

Toronto, April 21 The National Alliance of Indo-Canadians (NAIC) has called on the Members of Provincial Parliament (MPP) of the Ontario assembly to recall and modify the M-46 motion which characterised the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as a ‘genocide’. “The NAIC calls upon the Ontario political leadership to recall and modifyRead More

OTTAWA — The country’s annual inflation rate slowed to an unexpectedly weak 1.6 per cent last month as the continued decline in food prices played a big role in offsetting the higher cost of gasoline. The latest reading from Statistics Canada shows the pace of inflation decelerated from February’s year-over-yearRead More