TORONTO – The Toronto Real Estate Board expects home sales in Canada’s largest city will be strong in 2016 and may set a record. TREB estimates its member realtors will sell between 96,500 and 105,000 residential properties this year — either just above or just below last year’s record highRead More

CALGARY — Suncor Energy and Canadian Oil Sands have come to terms on a $6.6-billion deal that ends a public battle between the two Calgary-based companies. Suncor (TSX:SU) has increased how much stock it will pay to buy COS, which had said the previous offer was too low. Canadian OilRead More

WHITBY, Ont. — Candidates in the Whitby-Oshawa provincial byelection have opened their campaign offices. Progressive Conservative candidate Lorne Coe and Liberal candidate Elizabeth Roy both launched their offices Saturday, alongside bigwigs from the respective parties. Premier Kathleen Wynne attended Roy’s opening, and Coe was joined by PC deputy leaders SylviaRead More

VANCOUVER — Two men and a teenager labelled “suspicious” because they were taking photos of a Vancouver mall feared being attacked on the street after local media published their images, says their doctor. Dr. Weidong Yu of the Wellspring Clinic for Holistic Medicine says the trio are visiting from Manchester,Read More

OTTAWA — Six Canadians died in an attack on a luxury hotel in Burkina Faso, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday as the Quebec government confirmed all six were from the province. Four jihadist attackers linked to al-Qaida were killed by Burkina Faso and French security forces hours after theyRead More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau added some important new players to his diplomatic chessboard Saturday, as he prepared to join a gathering of the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland this coming week. Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion announced the appointment of David MacNaughton, the former co-chair of theRead More

OTTAWA — Defending and advancing a free, open and secure cyberspace is essential to Canada’s prosperity as well as its commitment to human rights and democracy, advisers have told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The next several years will bring steady progress in the development of international frameworks for the digitalRead More

TORONTO — The company that owns Canada’s largest circulation newspaper, the Toronto Star, is laying off more than 300 production and editorial employees in the latest downsizing move in the hard-hit industry. The bulk of the job losses come from a plan by Torstar (TSX:TS.B) to sell its Toronto-area printingRead More

OTTAWA — Indigenous leaders are urging Canada to confront deplorable health conditions for their people as federal, territorial and provincial ministers prepare to meet in Vancouver next week. Isadore Day, Ontario regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations and chair of the assembly’s health committee, says health outcomes forRead More

Toronto, Lisa Raitt, a former Harper government cabinet minister and Conservative MP for Milton, says she is “seriously considering” running for leadership of the party. “I’m seriously considering it. I’m excited about Canada’s future and I definitely want to be part of the discussion about what a Conservative leader looksRead More