OTTAWA — The country’s prison watchdog wants the new Liberal government to act on outstanding recommendations from his office, including a call to create a deputy commissioner of aboriginal corrections. Howard Sapers, the correctional investigator, says outcomes for indigenous inmates — who represent 24 per cent of the prison populationRead More

Ontario: A new poll suggests two thirds of Ontarians, as well as close to half of those who support Ontario’s governing Liberals, disapprove of payouts made to teacher unions and school boards during recent labour negotiations. The poll conducted by Forum Research from Nov. 2 to Nov. 4 found 67Read More

Toronto: Toronto paramedics say a man is recovering in a hospital trauma centre after he was stabbed in the city’s entertainment district overnight Sunday. Police said in a tweet that the stabbing occurred somewhere near the corner of John Street and Adelaide Street West. Paramedics said they were called toRead More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has yet to reach out to top senators to let them know what’s next for the upper chamber, specifically whether there will be a government leader there to oversee the Liberal legislative agenda. That wouldn’t be an issue, except for a decision last yearRead More

OTTAWA — Canada’s new health minister Jane Philpott says she plans to engage with provincial and territorial counterparts as soon as next week as the Liberals set the wheels in motion to establish a new health accord. In an interview, Philpott said the government perceives the agreement to be aRead More

Ottawa : On the same day dozens of Quebec and Ottawa schools were evacuated due to bomb threats, the Toronto District School Board was also sent an anonymous threatening email, Toronto police confirm. According to the TDSB, police were notified immediately after an anonymous bomb threat surfaced in the board’sRead More

WASHINGTON — One of the great ironies of the interminable saga of Keystone XL is that two of its principal antagonists were unaware that they went to grade school together. In the midst of one of the biggest environmental fights in American politics, the best-known activist on one side learnedRead More

TORONTO — Ontario’s deputy premier said Friday she didn’t know about a reported $65-million reserve fund the public high school teachers’ union had when the government agreed to pay them $1 million for negotiating costs. Deb Matthews, who is also head of the Treasury Board, the department that manages allRead More

Ontario: The Ontario government has announced a total of 117,000 trees will be planted along the Highway of Heroes over the next five years, one for each Canadian soldier that has died in the line of duty since Confederation. The project, which is being done in partnership with Forests Ontario, willRead More

Canada’s labour force ballooned by 44,400 net jobs last month thanks to a surge in temporary public-administration work likely generated by the federal election, Statistics Canada says. The agency’s latest job-market report also said Friday that the increase helped push October’s unemployment rate down one tenth of a percentage pointRead More