Toronto: Ontario’s education minister Mitzie Hunter said Friday it’s up to school boards to fix the dual problems of bus driver shortages and the lack of air conditioning in schools in hot days. School boards in York Region, Toronto and Hamilton-Wentworth have said that bus driver shortages have left asRead More

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s apparel has garnered more international recognition by being featured on Vanity Fair’s international best dressed list. The American culture and fashion magazine puts Trudeau in a list of best dressed men that includes U.S. vice-president Joe Bidden, Prince Harry, Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark and NFLRead More

TORONTO — Premier Kathleen Wynne has prorogued the Ontario legislature so her government can deliver a throne speech Monday, pressing the reset button to outline a new list of priorities less than two years before the next election. Wynne’s announcement Thursday came just days after her Liberal party lost aRead More

TORONTO — Premier Kathleen Wynne has prorogued the Ontario legislature so her government can deliver a throne speech Monday, pressing the reset button to outline a new list of priorities less than two years before the next election. Wynne’s announcement Thursday came just days after her Liberal party lost aRead More

Toronto:- A school bus driver shortage in Toronto and the Hamilton area has delayed more than 1,000 students from getting to school on time or at all, and observers say the industry’s poor wages and working conditions may be to blame. The Toronto District School Board says the problems affectRead More

GATINEAU, Que. — Both the Quebec government and Uber say they have reached an agreement in principle on a pilot project that will allow the ride-hailing service to continue operating in the province. The agreement, initially announced early Thursday by Uber Quebec general manager Jean-Nicolas Guillemette, came just hours afterRead More

BRUSSELS — A European Union judge says an EU agreement to exchange air passenger information with Canada to combat terrorism should be revised because parts of it would infringe on people’s rights. Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi said in a legal opinion published Wednesday that the deal signed in 2014 shouldRead More

MONTREAL — A group of Montreal academics is urging governments to get involved to secure the freedom of a Canadian-Iranian professor jailed in Iran. Homa Hoodfar, who taught at Concordia University, is being held at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison and recent reports suggest her health is deteriorating. Hoodfar is beingRead More

TORONTO — Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area hit a record last month as fewer homeowners put their properties up for sale, the city’s real estate board said Wednesday. The Toronto Real Estate Board said its members had 9,813 sales in August, a 23.5 per cent increase from theRead More

TORONTO — A mentally ill man finally deported to Jamaica on Wednesday deserves compensation because his five years in immigration detention was inhumane, illegal and violated his rights, his lawyer told an Ontario court. In seeking compensation for Alvin Brown, lawyer Jared Will accused Canada Border Services Agency of negligenceRead More