Toronto: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to have his first meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday. The White House said the leaders will discuss “strengthening the relationship” between their countries. “Strong Canada-U.S. ties help the middle class in both our countries,” Trudeau tweeted Thursday. “Monday,Read More

OTTAWA – Canada’s labour market unexpectedly added 48,300 jobs last month, thanks to surges in part-time and private-sector work. Statistics Canada’s employment survey for January shows an increase of 32,400 part-time positions and a gain of 15,800 jobs in the more-desirable category of full-time work. The report also found thatRead More

WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Monday in Washington, the Prime Minister’s Office says. In a statement, the PMO says the two leaders will discuss “the unique relationship between Canada and the United States” and how best to “work hard for middle-class CanadiansRead More

TORONTO — Loblaw is warning PC Plus rewards collectors to beef up their passwords after points were stolen from some members’ accounts. “We are treating this as a breach as individual member accounts were accessed and points were stolen,” said Kevin Groh, the company’s vice-president of corporate affairs and communication,Read More

TORONTO — The MaRS Discovery District says it has acquired private financing to repay much of what it received from the Ontario government to finance one of its towers in Toronto. MaRS says it will get $290 million from Manulife, Sun Life Financial and iA Financial Group through investments inRead More

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to visit the territories today and Friday for the first time since the 2015 election campaign and since the abrupt resignation of his former Liberal cabinet minister Hunter Tootoo, now an independent MP for Nunavut. Trudeau will begin his northern trip byRead More

Toronto: Mayor John Tory says that the budget that will be debated by executive committee today includes $191 million in savings that were found through the course of a “line-by-line” analysis of spending. Last January, Tory ordered the heads of all city departments and agencies to come forward with aRead More

  New research shows that diesel exhaust is entering the ventilation systems of some GO trains, leaving riders exposed to five times more toxic particles than they would encounter while walking along University Avenue during rush hour. Researchers with the Southern Ontario Centre for Atmospheric Aerosol Research at the UniversityRead More

OTTAWA — The country posted back-to-back monthly trade surpluses for the first time since September 2014, boosted by higher prices for exports of oil and natural gas in December, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. But the gain in energy prices hid some troubling weakness in non-energy exports, economists said. The overallRead More

TORONTO — More than 250 education workers at a school board covering eastern Ontario began a strike Tuesday morning. CUPE Local 4155 says the workers employed by the Conseil scolaire de district catholique de l’Est ontarien (CSDCEO) have been in bargaining for two years without success. Local president Raymond GirouxRead More