Toronto:Residents in three public housing communities could see badly needed repairs to their units and buildings completed in months and not years as part of a new pilot project. The Toronto Community Housing Corporation announced on Friday that it is experimenting with a new approach to capital repairs at aRead More

Que. — Tom Mulcair says a New Democrat government would inject $105 million over three years to bolster the country’s struggling forestry sector. Speaking in the Quebec City area today, the NDP leader committed to earmark $55 million of that total to forestry manufacturing facilities. The pledge also includes aRead More

The Liberals and Conservatives are in a dead heat, with the NDP only three points behind, according to a new poll released Friday. The Grits and the Tories enjoy 31 per cent support each, with the NDP at 28 per cent, a poll conducted by Forum Research from Sept. 21Read More

Calgary:– Tight regional races are emerging between the Liberals and Conservatives in the battle for Ontario, a new poll finds. A recently released Mainstreet Technology/ Postmedia poll suggests that province-wide, the Conservatives lead the Liberals in Ontario by four percentage points with 38 per cent support. “The resiliency of theRead More

TORONTO — A Liberal backbencher wants to eliminate the words ‘mother’ and ‘father’ from all Ontario government forms to “reflect the diverse nature” of families in the province. Glenn Thibeault, a member of the provincial legislature for Sudbury, says ‘gendered’ terminology should be replaced with gender-neutral and inclusive language. Thibeault’sRead More

OTTAWA — Stephen Harper doesn’t have a reputation as a gambler, but his 2015 federal election call is shaping up as an all-or-nothing bet on another Conservative majority. The prime minister heads into tonight’s nationally televised, French-language leaders’ debate with only Gilles Duceppe of the Bloc Quebecois as a potentialRead More

Toronto: Mayor John Tory and his counterparts from five other Canadian cities are calling on the federal party leaders to make “specific commitments” on how they would address the “affordable housing crisis” facing the country. Tory met with Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage,Read More

MONTREAL — NDP Leader Tom Mulcair has weighed in on the controversial issue of face coverings at citizenship ceremonies, saying Wednesday he backs a requirement that women show their faces. “Under the current rules, a woman who wears a niqab who’s seeking to become a Canadian citizen has to takeRead More

TORONTO — The Conservatives promised Wednesday they would impose automatic travel bans against people who’ve been sanctioned by the Canadian government and include gross human rights violations on the list of reasons for implementing sanctions. Niagara Falls-area candidate and Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson announced the proposal Wednesday in TorontoRead More

Toronto: Nearly two years after his arrest in Egypt on widely denounced terrorism charges, Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy walked out of prison a free man Wednesday following a presidential pardon. Fahmy and his colleague and co-accused Baher Mohamed were among 100 people — including dozens of prominent human rights activistsRead More