Toronto : Toronto goes to the polls Monday to vote for their favourite among three dozen candidates running for mayor. However, polls suggest no candidate poses a major threat to incumbent John Tory. His biggest threat is Jennifer Keesmaat, the city’s former chief planner, who entered the race mid-summer afterRead More

OTTAWA — The union representing 50,000 Canada Post employees has begun a series of rotating strikes. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says the 24-hour strikes began Monday at 12:01 a.m. local time in Windsor, Ont., and at 1:01 a.m. in Halifax. Strikes in Victoria and Edmonton were also setRead More

Toronto: Torontonians head to the polls Monday to pick a mayor. Much of the attention in the race has gone to frontrunners John Tory and Jennifer Keesmaat. However there are 33 other people who have registered to run for the mayor’s seat.   Here are a few other mayoral candidatesRead More

Toronto: Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders’ approval rating has dropped slightly since last year, according to a new poll released Monday. The DART Insight poll, which was conducted on behalf of the Toronto Sun/ National Post, found that 66 per cent of Torontonians believe that Saunders is doing a goodRead More

Toronto: John Tory has a 35-point lead over his closest challenger with just three days to go until election day, a new poll has found. The Dart Insight poll of 669 randomly selected residents was commissioned by the Toronto Sun. It found that Tory had the support of 62 perRead More

TORONTO — The Ontario Cannabis Store says it has received about 100,000 online orders in the first 24 hours that marijuana was legal in Canada. The government-run OCS says 12,000 of those orders came within the first hour after legalization Wednesday morning. Ontario will have no brick-and-mortar cannabis stores untilRead More

OTTAWA — The red ink on the federal government’s budget showed no signs of fading as the annual financial report card revealed a $19-billion deficit for the second straight fiscal year. Expenses and debt payments were all up last year as overall spending hit almost $332.6 billion, leaving a deficitRead More

TORONTO – A campaign adviser to Premier Doug Ford has been appointed as Ontario’s trade representative to the United States. Ian Todd will take on the post in Washington, D.C. on Monday, replacing former Liberal legislator Monique Smith who was removed from the job by Ford after his Progressive ConservativesRead More

Toronto : Several prominent faces on Toronto city council appear to be in danger of losing their seats, according to a series of ward-specific polls conducted by Forum Research. A poll conducted last weekend in Humber River — Black Creek, where incumbents Giorgio Mammoliti and Anthony Perruzza are squaring offRead More

Ontario : Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has been accused of pushing Progressive Conservative MPP Donna Skelly during a heated confrontation inside the legislature on Tuesday. Skelly said she was speaking with a colleague on her party’s side of the house when Horwath crossed the floor and approached her inRead More