TORONTO — A new study ranks Victoria as the best city to be a woman in Canada, while Windsor, Ont., rated last of the country’s 25 largest metropolitan areas. The study by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives senior researcher Kate McInturff looks at the gaps in men and women’s accessRead More

TORONTO – Royal LePage CEO Phil Soper says house prices in Greater Vancouver grew 30.6 per cent year-over-year in the third quarter of the year, marking what may have been the real estate market’s “final hurrah.” The real estate agency says the average house price in the region soared toRead More

British Columbia : Researchers say Canada’s winter bounty of snow could provide an environmentally friendly way of easing hot, muggy summer days. Engineers at the University of British Columbia Okanagan have been examining whether waste snow plowed from Canadian roads could be collected and dumped into pre-constructed areas, where itRead More

TORONTO — A last-minute tentative agreement has averted a threatened strike by 9,750 workers at Fiat-Chrysler’s operations in Ontario. Unifor president Jerry Dias announced the four-year deal just minutes before a strike deadline of 11:59 p.m. Monday night. He said the deal, which followed what he called “one very difficultRead More

OTTAWA — An appeal court has rejected the federal government’s latest legal salvo in a long-standing bid to deport a Toronto man over alleged terrorist ties. In a new ruling, the Federal Court of Appeal says there are no grounds to contest a judge’s decision to strike down a nationalRead More

OTTAWA — Canadian residential construction was hotter than expected in September as the pace of housing starts picked up nationally, despite a decline in Ontario. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Tuesday the seasonally adjusted annual rate of starts was 220,617 in September, up from 184,201 units in August. EconomistsRead More

Orangeville: One person was transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries after being ejected from their vehicle following a collision east of Orangeville Tuesday afternoon. It happened on Highway 9, near Heart Lake Road, shortly after 4 p.m. According to Ontario Provincial Police, preliminary information indicated that three vehicles were involvedRead More

TORONTO — A last-minute tentative agreement has averted a threatened strike by 9,750 workers at Fiat-Chrysler’s operations in Ontario. Unifor president Jerry Dias announced the four-year deal just minutes before a strike deadline of 11:59 p.m. Monday night. He said the deal, which followed what he called “one very difficultRead More

Toronto: The city will no longer be issuing a “rubber stamp” for applications from developers who want to close streets for an extended period of time, Mayor John Tory says. Tory held a news conference near the intersection of Bathurst and Front streets on Tuesday to deliver a warning toRead More

OTTAWA – The federal government is keeping closer tabs on a student loan program targeting doctors and nurses after many of them had loans mistakenly forgiven over the past two years. The federal government launched the doctors and nurses loan forgiveness program in 2013 to act as an incentive forRead More