HALIFAX — Tom Mulcair started Wednesday in Nova Scotia, where at least one of his three NDP incumbents in the Halifax area is locked in a tough fight ahead of the Oct. 19 vote. The NDP leader was in Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, a riding won by Robert Chisholm in the lastRead More

HAMILTON — Justin Trudeau is asking Canadians to give his Liberals a majority mandate in Monday’s federal election. The Liberal leader made the request Wednesday as polls suggest his party has the momentum heading into the final days of the campaign. “I know that Canadians will make the right decision,”Read More

TORONTO – Locked out OLG workers at Sudbury Downs, Casino Brantford and Toronto’s Woodbine Racetrack have voted in favour of a new collective agreement to bring an end to a three-week lockout. The lockout began Sept. 19 and the tentative agreement covering about one-thousand workers was reached on Oct. 11.Read More

OTTAWA – Shopify and Uber are working together to offer same-day local delivery starting today in three major U.S. cities. The UberRUSH program will be initially available to a select number of Shopify’s merchant clients in New York City, Chicago and San Francisco but it’s expected to go to otherRead More

WATERLOO, Ont. — The Conservatives are growing increasingly concerned Canadians aren’t hearing their message about the risks of a Liberal government, so party leader Stephen Harper Monday rang a bell to wake them up. Harper departed from his usual stump speech for a rare bit of political theatre to demonstrateRead More

MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. — The Oct. 19 vote is still a three-way race no matter what polls suggest, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair insisted Monday. At the opening of a two-province blitz of campaign offices on Thanksgiving Day, Mulcair turned a blind eye to many published opinion polls over the pastRead More

TORONTO — A Canadian journalist who was released from prison in Egypt last month has returned home, marking the end of his nearly two-year ordeal in a case that raised questions about Egypt’s commitment to free speech. Mohamed Fahmy, a former Al-Jazeera journalist detained on terror-related charges, arrived in TorontoRead More

Ontario:- Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are more than seven per cent ahead of the Conservatives nationally and nearly 13 per cent ahead in Ontario, according to a poll conducted this holiday weekend. The rolling average of three days of polling from Oct. 9 to 11 by Nanos Research found 35.7 perRead More

TORONTO — It’s enough to give any city a big head, let alone one that already — only partly self-deprecatingly — dubs itself the “Centre of the Universe.” All three parties have been working feverishly this election to win the affections of the Greater Toronto Area, which holds a highRead More

OTTAWA — When you get west of the Rockies, the saying goes about Canadian politics, things are different. In British Columbia, that’s proving true about two unexpected issues in this campaign that could well shape the vote: the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the debate over the niqab. WhileRead More