Clairlea– Homicide detectives have been called in to investigate after a man’s body was found at a home in the city’s Clairlea neighbourhood in Scarborough Saturday. Officers were called to the home at around 1:15 p.m. Police said it is too early to say whether the man’s death was aRead More

OTTAWA – An icon of Canadian conservatism the current Conservative party needs to prepare itself to clean up a Trudeau mess much like it did decades ago. Reform party founder Preston Manning is kicking off this year’s annual conference of the centre in his name, an Alberta-based think tank aimedRead More

TORONTO – An investment group that includes three major Canadian retirement funds has agreed to buy London City Airport. Financial terms of the agreement were not immediately available. The consortium includes three of Canada’s largest pension fund managers — Alberta Investment Management Corp., OMERS, and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. TheRead More

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — They’re among the most coercive tools in medicine: community treatment orders can force people with mental illness to accept treatment — or face arrest. Families and mental health officials say CTOs are a lifeline in desperate situations. But critics say they are dangerously prone to misuse,Read More

MONTREAL — Canadian airlines say impending U.S. travel to Cuba could spur cross-border travelling by Canadians in search of cheaper flights from American airports to the Communist Caribbean island. While the low loonie has generally discouraged treks by Canadians to border-area airports in recent months, an eventual rise could promptRead More

Toronto ;  Post-secondary tuition will now be free for students from low-income families. That was one of the “good news” headlines that came out of the 2016 provincial budget which for the most part outlined a more expensive life for middle-class Ontarians. The budget, which was tabled in the legislatureRead More

TORONTO – Ontario’s Liberal government will outline a plan to eliminate its deficit and stem the growth of its massive debt in today’s provincial budget, the ninth in a row to be awash in red ink. Low oil prices and a weaker loonie have helped Ontario lead the country inRead More

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are getting started on repealing some of the previous government’s sweeping — and controversial — changes to how people get or lose Canadian citizenship. But the Liberal plan promises to be controversial in its own right, since it would, if passed, restore the Canadian citizenshipRead More

OTTAWA — A special parliamentary committee says medical assistance in dying should be made available with few obstacles to Canadians who are suffering from grievous and irremediable medical conditions that cause enduring suffering. The committee, which introduced its long-awaited recommendations today, says that should include people suffering from both physicalRead More

OTTAWA — A report from the parliamentary budget officer predicts that storms and floods, driven in part by climate change, will cost the federal disaster fund $902 million a year over the next five years, well above past averages. It says climate change is likely a factor in the severityRead More