TORONTO — The Ontario government is pledging $10.5 million to the Syrian refugee crisis, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced Saturday. Wynne said the province hopes to resettle 10,000 refugees by the end of 2016, though she notes the provincial government doesn’t have the power to sponsor those refugees. Refugees have beenRead More

Toronto: – Elections Canada’s recent efforts to make the voting process more accessible across the country have addressed but not eliminated the challenges that disabled voters often encounter at the polls, observers say. The national electoral body has poured resources into improving accessibility protocols and procedures in the five yearsRead More

Ontario: –The province has stepped away from negotiations with the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario after tabling an offer. In a statement issued on late Friday afternoon, Education Minister Liz Sandals said negotiators with the province and the Ontario Public School Board Association have presented the ETFO with a “comprehensiveRead More

EDMONTON — A New Democrat government would likely have to ask for more time to deal with a Supreme Court ruling that Parliament produce new legislation on doctor-assisted death, the party’s leader said Friday. Campaigning in Edmonton, Tom Mulcair insisted he would do his best to meet the court’s FebruaryRead More

OTTAWA — Stephen Harper condemned Russia’s increased military involvement in Syria as “dangerous” Friday — but also reiterated his promise to keep Canadian conventional combat troops out of the war-torn region. Harper says the buildup of equipment and manpower, in an apparent bid to prop up the regime of SyrianRead More

QUEBEC — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne urged Ottawa on Friday to speed up its process to welcome more refugees to Canada. Wynne also said she will make a funding announcement on Saturday related to the crisis. “I will continue to ask the federal government to streamline their processes so moreRead More

VANCOUVER — The federal Liberals are vowing to spend some $1.5 billion over four years on a youth job strategy that they believe can help some 125,000 young people find a job. The plan includes a pledge to spend some $300 million per year for three years on a youthRead More

OTTAWA — A campaigning Conservative Leader Stephen Harper used Friday’s 14th anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. to highlight his government’s national-security credentials. Speaking to an election rally in Victoriaville, Que., Harper flatly asserted that voters face a choice between “security and risk” at the polls onRead More

NEW ANNAN, P.E.I. — Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is defending his decision to appoint Mike Duffy as a senator for Prince Edward Island, saying that the former Ottawa broadcaster met the bar of owning a residence in the province. But simply owning a residence, and actually living in it asRead More

OTTAWA — Tom Mulcair says Canadian military personnel will immediately come home from Iraq and Syria this fall — months earlier than planned — if the NDP wins the Oct. 19 federal election. Mulcair, campaigning in Winnipeg, says the mission falls neither under the umbrella of the United Nations norRead More