OTTAWA — The commissioner of elections has cleared the federal NDP of any wrongdoing related to mass mailings sent into four ridings in the midst of byelections in 2013. In a letter to NDP national director Anne McGrath, Yves Cote says he’s concluded no offence was committed. Cote says oneRead More

HALIFAX — The government of Newfoundland and Labrador is exploring the idea of selling electricity to Ontario. Natural Resources Minister Derrick Dalley says the commitment was made today with Ontario Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli at the 2015 Energy and Mines Ministers’ Conference underway in Halifax. Dalley says the announcement followsRead More

OTTAWA — Tom Mulcair is jumping the starting gun for this fall’s election, hitting the campaign trail this week in the crucial battleground of Ontario. The NDP leader is launching an eight-day tour today designed to showcase his team, his policies and his party’s momentum in the province. Ontario accountsRead More

TORONTO — Allowing Canadians who have lived abroad for more than five years to vote in federal elections would be unfair to those who live in Canada, Ontario’s top court ruled Monday. In a split decision, the Court of Appeal overturned a ruling that had restored the right of moreRead More

Toronto firefighters freed a child from a locked car in Etobicoke Sunday morning, as temperatures climbed. Capt. Stephan Powell of Toronto fire said the child was inside a car parked on Sixth Street near the lake shore Sunday morning. Emergency crews were called to the scene at 8:38 a.m. TheRead More

Toronto:Passenger rail service has been suspended on a number of Toronto routes after a CN freight train derailed in Bowmanville Saturday afternoon. The train went off the rails near Port Darlington Road in Bowmanville around 2 p.m. Images from the scene showed several cars crumpled to the side of theRead More

TORONTO:Toronto Public Health has issued a heat alert ahead of what could be the hottest day of the year.According to Environment Canada, the temperature will hit 30 C today but it will feel closer to 38 C with the humidity factored in. The temperature isn’t expected to ease up anytimeRead More

TORONTO — We have a winner — a single winning ticket for the $55-million grand prize in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw was sold somewhere in Quebec. It’s the second largest lottery jackpot in Canadian history. The largest — the Lotto 6-49 draw of Apr. 13, 2013 — had aRead More

MONTREAL — The advent of competition and new technologies is forcing politicians across Canada to re-evaluate their cities’ taxi industries and to wonder just how many cabs they want on the roads. Big cities are struggling with new entrants such as Uber, a service that allows drivers to work withRead More

FREDERICTON — More than four years after an earthquake and tsunami triggered a meltdown of three nuclear reactors in Japan, lessons learned are still being put into place at nuclear power plants in Canada. But one critic is questioning whether the industry and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission have goneRead More