Ontario: Both sides found positives in a Canadian court ruling issued Friday in a David and Goliath legal battle between oil giant Chevron and a group of Ecuadorian villagers. The villagers are using the Canadian courts to try to collect on a US$9.5-billion Ecuadorian court judgement for environmental damage. ChevronRead More

TORONTO — A 74-year-old Toronto man is facing charges in a child pornography investigation. Police allege the man made, accessed, possessed, and made available child sexual abuse material. They say he was arrested on Thursday as part of an investigation into the possession of child pornography. Frederic Urban is chargedRead More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is urging the mayors of Canada’s biggest cities to keep close ties with their American counterparts to maintain an open border with the United States. Trudeau says the relationships Canadian mayors have with mayors across the U.S. will be vital to ensuring an openRead More

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the consumer price index in December was up 1.5 per cent from where it was a year ago, a higher rate of inflation compared with November’s increase of 1.2 per cent. Economists had expected a bigger increase of 1.7 per cent year-over-year in December. PricesRead More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is congratulating Donald Trump on becoming the 45th U.S. president — and reminding him of Canada’s historically close ties with its southern superpower neighbour. “Canada and the United States have built one of the closest relationships between any two countries in the world. ThisRead More

TORONTO — A new report from Royal LePage suggests many Americans who oppose incoming president Donald Trump continue showing a desire to purchase property in Canada. In a report released early Friday, the company says American web traffic on its website surged 329 per cent the day after the U.S.Read More

OTTAWA – Former prime minister Stephen Harper says Donald Trump’s presidency is a major source of international uncertainty that will “reverse” seven decades of U.S. foreign policy. Harper delivers that assessment today in a speech in New Delhi, the speaking notes for which were obtained by The Canadian Press. HeRead More

OTTAWA — Maryam Monsef, like all her Liberal cabinet colleagues, was careful to step around a direct question about U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. She might have actually had to be more nimble than most, because the question was not about his views on climate change, trade, immigration or any ofRead More

TORONTO – Galen G. Weston has been appointed CEO of George Weston Ltd., a role that his father held for decades before stepping aside several years ago as part of a staged succession plan at the company that controls the Loblaw grocery business. The younger Weston has been chairman ofRead More

HALIFAX – Maritimers will have a chance to question Justin Trudeau about regional issues as he begins the second week of his roving campaign to reconnect with ordinary Canadians. The prime minister kicks off the Atlantic leg of his national outreach tour in Halifax today with a visit to aRead More