TORONTO — New Democrat Leader Tom Mulcair said Friday he was thrilled with the way his first national election debate went despite some awkward lapses in his train of thought. Mulcair also laid out clear conditions for taking part in any more debates, including that Conservative Prime Minister Stephen HarperRead More

Toronto: News of a recent protest that temporarily blocked Allen Road reached more Toronto residents than the death of a mentally-ill black man at the hands of Toronto police, a new poll suggests. Early last month, 45-year-old Andrew Loku, an immigrant from South Sudan who suffered from mental health issues, wasRead More

Toronto: Canada’s economy added about 6,600 jobs last month, essentially reversing a similar decline in June and not enough to change a national unemployment rate that has been stuck at 6.8 per cent for six months in a row. Statistics Canada says there were fewer people with full-time employment lastRead More

TORONTO — Green party Leader Elizabeth May wants to improve the quality of the conversation at tonight’s leaders debate. May, who has not been invited to participate in a debate since 2008, says she thinks it is especially important to engage Canadians in this election . She said she isRead More

  Toronto: Fifty-eight per cent of respondents to a poll conducted by Mainstreet Technologies say they would support a bid by Toronto to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. Thirty-eight per cent of respondents said they would not support a bid, while four per cent said they weren’t sure. MainstreetRead More

HALIFAX – The federal government says it is agreeing to an offshore drilling plan that allows up to 21 days to bring in capping technology for a subsea well blowout because requiring a shorter response time would be too expensive for Shell Canada Ltd. Nova Scotia environmentalists are questioning whyRead More

TORONTO — The Toronto Stock Exchange and other major North American markets were lower Thursday morning. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 74.03 points at 14,428.96. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 101.74 points at 17,438.73, the Nasdaq index fell 66.67 points to 5,073.28, and the S&P 500 declinedRead More

Toronto:Members of the Toronto Transit Commission’s human resources and labour relations committee will discuss a city-wide plan to review the pension, benefits and bonus pay of top executives at their first-ever meeting Wednesday afternoon. The committee will vote Wednesday on whether to hire a consultant to develop an executive compensationRead More

TORONTO — Premier Kathleen Wynne has called an Ontario byelection in the midst of the federal election campaign to give new Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown a chance to seek a seat in the legislature. The byelection in the Simcoe North riding, just north of Barrie, will be held Sept.Read More

Toronto:A new poll shows a majority of Toronto voters would like to see a downtown relief line built ahead of a planned Scarborough subway extension. According to the poll released by Forum Research Wednesday, 61 per cent of those surveyed in a random telephone survey said they want the reliefRead More