OTTAWA: The chief executive of extra-marital dating website Ashley Madison stepped down today after hackers leaked its membership list online. Parent company Avid Life Media, which operates the infidelity network, said it and CEO Noel Biderman were in “mutual agreement” about the split. “This change is in the best interestRead More

OTTAWA — Green party Leader Elizabeth May is pleading with Stephen Harper and Tom Mulcair to reconsider their plans to skip the traditional televised leaders debate. The prime minister has said he won’t take part in the English election debate organized by a consortium of broadcasters, but he will participateRead More

Ontario:Thomas Mulcair’s NDP continues to gain support at the expense of the Conservatives, and is now enjoying the support necessary to form a majority government, a new poll suggests. Forty per cent of respondents to a poll conducted by Forum Research on Aug. 23 to Aug. 24 said they wouldRead More

MARKHAM, Ont. — The Conservatives are promising to make it easier for those trained abroad to have their credentials recognized in Canada so they can find work in their field. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is pledging new funding for the Foreign Credential Recognition Loans program, which offers financial support toRead More

OAKVILLE, Ont. — Justin Trudeau says a Liberal government would run modest, short-term deficits until 2019 in order to kickstart the economy. The party’s latest platform plank, which proposes doubling current federal infrastructure funding, says shortfalls in the federal treasury over the next two years would amount to no moreRead More

Mohamed Fahmy hopes this weekend will mark an end to his drawn-out legal nightmare. A Cairo court is expected — once again — to deliver a verdict Saturday for the Canadian journalist on trial for widely denounced terror charges and Fahmy is cautiously optimistic. “We feel like this is theRead More

NEWMARKET, Ont. — Balancing the federal budget is an exercise that could conceivably take years, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau suggested Wednesday as he turned up the heat on the NDP to explain how they would pull it off soon after being elected. But the attack on New Democrats and aRead More

LONDON, Ont. — NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says ending income splitting and raising corporate taxes won’t be enough to balance a budget, but he won’t yet discuss the full cost of his platform. Mulcair says an NDP government would not run a deficit, even if market forces change, saying “weRead More

OTTAWA – The Conservatives no longer have to deal with fresh testimony from the Mike Duffy fraud trial until after the federal election. Ontario Court Justice Charles Vaillancourt has adjourned the trial until November 18th, almost a full month after Canadians go to the polls. The trial was slated toRead More

TORONTO — Finance Minister Joe Oliver has cancelled a planned speech today at a Toronto men’s club that sparked a Twitter controversy. Oliver was scheduled to speak about the future of the Canadian economy at the Cambridge Club, which describes itself as “the downtown playground for Toronto’s most successful executives.”Read More