FLORENCE, Italy — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Russia has a chance to get on the “right side of history” and help negotiate a political end to Bashar Assad’s reign of terror in Syria. Freeland, in Italy for meetings of the G7 foreign ministers, says Assad’s gruesome chemical attackRead More

BRANTFORD, Ont. — Police in Brantford, Ont., say a man who overdosed after apparently unknowingly taking fentanyl has been revived in hospital. They say 20-year-old man was in medical distress and was taken to hospital by a friend early Sunday. Police say the man arrived at hospital with no vitalRead More

Ontario: Drivers will want to fill up their car’s tank before Tuesday evening, gas price analysts warn. The price of gasoline is expected to rise six cents/litre tomorrow, according to Dan McTeague, an analyst from GasBuddy.com. The price is poised to jump from 115.9 cents/litre to just over 121.9 cents/litre.Read More

PARIS – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has visited Juno Beach in Normandy, one of Canada’s most important World War II sites. On June 6, 1944, thousands of Canadian troops stormed the beach with British and American soldiers on D-Day’s amphibious invasion of the northern French region. Trudeau arrived withRead More

MONTREAL – Bombardier is expected to formally inform shareholders today about changes to the compensation for several of its top executives when it files a new proxy circular with the securities regulator. Chief executive Alain Bellemare has asked the board to delay payment of more than half of last year’sRead More

OTTAWA — Mark Farrant, 44, remembers going through a routine whenever it was time to leave the house. He would grab his keys and his cellphone, put on his jacket and then slip a knife down the back of his jeans. One day, Farrant says, his young daughter looked upRead More

A vehicle previously wanted in connection with the murder of a 27-year-old pregnant woman in Pickering on Friday night has been located by police. At around 9:45 p.m. Friday, 27-year-old Arianna Goberdhan was found dead in a home on Winville Road near Brock and Taunton roads. Police say Goberdhan, whoRead More

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says the state of New York has dropped proposed Buy American provisions that could have harmed businesses in the province. The state had intended to include in its budget a policy that would give preference to American-made goods and products in any new procurementsRead More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on his way to France, as Canadians prepare to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. As many as 25,000 Canadians will join Trudeau and other dignitaries as they pause in the shadows of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial onRead More

Toronto: John Tory would beat Doug Ford if the two squared off in a rematch of the 2014 mayoral election but the gap between the two is narrowing, according to a new poll. Forum Research asked 840 randomly selected residents who they would vote for if an election was heldRead More