A new poll suggests that a majority of Toronto residents, even in Scarborough, support Mayor John Tory’s proposal to cut the Scarborough subway down to one stop and build an additional LRT. The Forum Research Poll found that 58 per cent of Toronto residents approve of the new plan, whichRead More

TORONTO — Four executives with Toronto’s 2015 Pan Am Games committee cracked the Top 10 on the Ontario sunshine list of public sector workers paid more than $100,000. Pan Am CFO Barbara Gail Anderson was paid $862,000, executive vice-president Allen Vansen $817,000, senior vice-president Karen Hacker $804,000 and vice-president KatherineRead More

OTTAWA — Hundreds of Canadians who’ve come together to sponsor Syrian refugees are being told it could be next year before their new charges arrive, after a series of changes to the Liberals’ resettlement program. The original goal of bringing in 25,000 refugees has been met, but the next stepRead More

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — State security prosecutors in the United Arab Emirates have dropped terrorism charges in a case involving two Libyan Americans and a Libyan Canadian, instead charging them with the lesser offence of illegally raising funds, a defence lawyer said Thursday. Prosecutors had initially charged them withRead More

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says an Alberta woman who tossed two of her newborn children into the garbage is not guilty of second-degree murder. By a 7-0 margin, the high court has agreed with the lawyers for Meredith Borowiec of Calgary, who argued that she was guiltyRead More

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau says his government’s maiden budget keeps faith with Canadians who voted for the Liberals in last fall’s election, even though it breaks a central campaign promise to run up “modest” deficits. Kicking off a promotional blitz Wednesday to sell the big-spending budget, the prime minister insistedRead More

TORONTO — Contract agreements with teachers and education workers that the Ontario Liberal government boasted were “net zero” actually come with an additional $300-million cost. The money will be used to set up five health, life and dental trusts that will consolidate more than 1,000 current benefit plans. The governmentRead More

OTTAWA – Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose confirms that Alberta MP Jim Hillyer has died at the age of 41. Hillyer was first elected to the House of Commons in 2011 in the Lethbridge riding and was re-elected last fall in the new riding of Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner. Initial reports suggestRead More

TORONTO — The Ontario Securities Commission says its director of enforcement is leaving to take a similar role in Hong Kong. Tom Atkinson was appointed as the OSC’s director of enforcement in 2009. Prior to that, Atkinson was founding president and CEO of Market Regulation Services Inc., held positions atRead More

CALGARY – Political observers say today’s byelection in Calgary is important for Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives. Calgary political scientists Duane Bratt and Melanee Thomas say the PCs need to win Calgary Greenway as they face pressure from some sectors to merge with the Wildrose party. Calgary had been the bedrock ofRead More