Environment Canada has confirmed the occurrence of a second tornado in Dufferin County this past weekend. Environment Canada previously said that an EF-2 tornado with winds of 180 to 220 km/h hit Teviotdale on Sunday evening and on Wednesday the weather agency said that a separate EF-1 tornado with windsRead More

TORONTO — Stephen Harper has delivered the first big-budget promise of the Conservative election campaign: a permanent home-renovation tax credit that will cost taxpayers $1.5 billion a year once implemented. However, Harper says the credit — a more modest version of a temporary credit the government first introduced in 2009Read More

AJAX, Ont. — One day into his re-election campaign and Stephen Harper had already turned his main political rivals into a two-headed nightmare: “Justin and Mulcair.” The Conservative leader repeated that moniker several times Monday in reference to the Liberal leader with the famous last name and the NDP leaderRead More

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – The Second Cup Ltd. (TSX:SCU) says it’s beginning to add more new-format locations to its network of specialty coffee cafes, which continued to lose money during the company’s second quarter. It says two new-format locations were added in July and a rollout of the new format willRead More

TORONTO — The Canadian dollar is trading near levels that it hasn’t seen since the summer of 2004. The loonie traded at 76.23 cents US, down 0.22 cent of a U.S. cent from Friday’s close. Earlier it had been as low as 75.90, the lowest since closing at 75.82 centsRead More

LAVAL, Que. – Stephen Harper says his marathon election campaign won’t derail Canada’s bid to join a massive global trade zone that he’s predicting will be the fundamental trading network of the Asia-Pacific region. The prime minister says Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, which failed to reach an agreement late last week,Read More

Quebec: Thomas Mulcair’s New Democrats are continuing to increase their lead, according to a new poll by Forum Research. The survey of 1399 Canadians across the country finds 39 per cent of respondents said they would vote for the NDP, a jump of six per cent from a month earlier.Read More

Toronto: One man was pronounced dead and another is charged with second degree murder after stabbing in Toronto’s St. James Town in the early hours of the morning Monday. Toronto police Det. Sgt. Steve Ryan said police were called to the area and discovered the lifeless body of a manRead More

York Regional Police say they’ve arrested four people after an altercation near a nightclub in Vaughan early Monday morning. York Regional Police’s District 4 staff sergeant said they were called to Sin on 7 nightclub, located at 2229 Highway 7 near Keele Street at about 2:30 a.m. Monday morning. SomeRead More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he has asked Governor General David Johnston to dissolve Parliament, touching off an 11-week campaign in advance of an election Oct. 19. Harper made the announcement today outside Rideau Hall, square in the middle of the August holiday weekend, ending months of speculationRead More