TORONTO — The federal government will provide $20 million to the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine to help establish a stem-cell therapy development facility in Toronto. The Centre for Advanced Therapeutic Cell Technologies will be the first such facility in the world to use a collaborative approach between researchRead More

Ottawa: The Canadian man who was sentenced in Vietnam to four years in jail for abusing teenage boys was caught with the help of an Australian charity that located his victims and tipped off police. Vadim Scott Benderman, 45, formerly of Montreal, admitted during his half-day trial on Wednesday thatRead More

Toronto,  Senior members of the Liberal government are “engaged very closely” with the City of Toronto on a number of infrastructure projects and funding could be forthcoming in the upcoming budget, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested at a news conference on Wednesday. On the infrastructure priorities of the municipal governmentRead More

BRAMPTON, Ont. – Provincial police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a 27-year-old Mississauga, Ont., man in connection with a wrong-way collision in Brampton, Ont. Police say the collision occurred last Friday evening on the Highway 410 southbound ramp to Highway 407 eastbound. Investigators say an officer was followingRead More

OTTAWA — The military is beginning to wind down its overseas involvement in the Liberal government’s commitment to resettling thousands of Syrian refugees in a matter of months. Approximately 70 Canadian Armed Forces members have returned from Jordan and Lebanon, where they were part of a broader government effort toRead More

TORONTO – Ontario’s finance minister is encouraging people to submit ideas for the upcoming budget — he just won’t consider the most popular ideas so far. The ministry launched its “Budget Talks” website last month as a venue for people who can’t attend the in-person, pre-budget consultations that begin todayRead More

Toronto : Torontonians will have a chance to weigh in on the proposed budget for 2016 during a series of public consultations being held this week. The first consultations are being held Tuesday both at city hall and in Etobicoke. Members of the public are allowed to address budget committee duringRead More

OTTAWA — Some of Canada’s biggest cities have chosen to opt out of a federally run count of homeless people, resulting in what some experts predict will be an incomplete picture of the national poverty problem. The decision by places like Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary, among others, toRead More

TORONTO — The lawyers who challenged the Harper government’s ultimately aborted appointment of Marc Nadon to the Supreme Court of Canada go before a court on Monday to argue they should be fully reimbursed for their efforts. In filings with the Federal Court of Appeal, Rocco Galati argues he deservesRead More

OTTAWA — Canada plans to kick-start a long-stalled international effort aimed at ridding the world of the key ingredients needed for nuclear weapons, The Canadian Press has learned. The renewed push this week by Canada’s United Nations ambassador to Geneva to spearhead the creation of a Fissile Material Cut-off TreatyRead More