OTTAWA – Canadians who drink, smoke and rely on public transit will be paying more thanks to changes in the federal budget. Finance Minister Bill Morneau also said Ottawa will scrutinize the private corporations wealthy professionals like doctors and lawyers use to reduce their taxes. And he put tax cheatsRead More

OTTAWA – The future is coming at you, fast, and the Liberal government says it knows you’re getting anxious – and potentially angry. Finance Minister Bill Morneau delivered a federal budget Wednesday that aims to get Canadians ready for a changing world and potentially shield the Liberals from the forcesRead More

Toronto:– The Toronto District School Board says it will stop booking official student trips to the U.S. until further notice, citing new border restrictions that may prevent some students from entering the country. TDSB Director of Education John Malloy says that already arranged trips —involving as many as 900 studentsRead More

OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada says Dennis Oland was wrongly denied bail pending an appeal of his second-degree murder conviction. The high court decision today could have influence beyond the high-profile New Brunswick case in which Oland was initially convicted of killing his father. Well-known businessman Richard OlandRead More

TORONTO — A Vice Media reporter must give the RCMP the background materials he used for stories on an accused terrorist, Ontario’s top court affirmed Wednesday. In a case that pitted freedom of the press against the ability of police and prosecutors to do their work, the Ontario Court ofRead More

TORONTO – A new report suggests fewer Canadians are smoking tobacco. The Canadian Community Health Survey found 17.7 per cent of Canadians aged 12 and older — or roughly 5.3 million people — smoked either daily or occasionally in 2015, down slightly from 18.1 per cent a year earlier. TheRead More

TORONTO — Recent government regulations have created “unprecedented levels of uncertainty” for the high-end home market heading into the key spring buying season, Sotheby’s International Realty Canada said in a report released Wednesday. Data compiled by the realtor in Canada’s four largest real estate markets predicts little deviation from ongoingRead More

Toronto: Friends and family of the late Rob Ford will be gathering in Etobicoke tonight to mark the one-year anniversary of the former Toronto mayor’s death. Ford passed away at Mount Sinai Hospital last year at the age of 46 after being diagnosed with pleomorphic liposarcoma, a rare and aggressiveRead More

TORONTO — Two Ontario cabinet ministers are heading to New York state to urge legislators to exempt Canada from a Buy American policy it plans to introduce, warning that it could lead to trouble on both sides of the border. Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid and International Trade Minister MichaelRead More

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is delaying promised Access to Information reforms that would bring ministerial offices under the openness law, saying it needs more time to get right what it describes as a complex initiative. The government had pledged an initial wave of legislative changes by the end ofRead More