Toronto, Over the past 10 days, the city says it has received an “unprecedented” 2,000 calls from people across Toronto who said they did not have water due to frozen pipes. Toronto has been in the grips of a deep freeze for weeks and officials say that while about 80Read More

Ottawa, His zigzag journey has lasted more than a year, but Michael Chong is about to cross one critical finish line in his bid to rebalance power between MPs and party leaders. The Conservative MP’s bill, known as Reform Act 2014, is poised to pass the House of Commons today duringRead More

Toronto, The first update of Ontario’s sex-education curriculum since 1998 will bring it in line with other provinces, but could lead the way in teaching the concept of consent, Education Minister Liz Sandals said Monday. “I think that on having a very explicit conversation about consent — what does consent meanRead More

Toronto ,Toronto has broken a 43-year-old temperature record for this date as an arctic air mass continues to hover over the city. At 5 a .m. the temperature hit – 20.1 C at Pearson International Airport, breaking the previous record for February 23 of – 19.4 C (1972). Things aren’tRead More

Toronto, John Tory’s popularity continues to take a slide from the enormous peak seen following his election but the vast majority of Torontonians say he still makes a better mayor than his predecessor Rob Ford, a new poll has found. The telephone poll of 807 randomly selected residents found thatRead More

Toronto, Former mayoral candidate and Member of Parliament Olivia Chow has been appointed as a visiting professor at Ryerson University. The school made the announcement on Monday morning, noting that Chow will focus on student mentorship and help create a program on community engagement and democratic participation while at Ryerson.Read More

Cairo, A Canadian journalist who had been imprisoned for more than a year in Egypt expressed frustration Monday as his retrial on widely-denounced terror-related charges was postponed to next month. After a brief hearing in a Cairo court, Mohamed Fahmy and his Egyptian colleague had their case put over to MarchRead More

Ottawa, Justin Trudeau says Stephen Harper is pandering to fears about Muslims with his insistence that no one should be allowed to wear a veil while taking the oath of Canadian citizenship. The Liberal leader says Harper’s stance — which the Conservative party has enthusiastically embraced to rally support, raise moneyRead More

OTTAWA – Transport Minister Lisa Raitt is announcing new changes to strengthen liability, compensation and insurance standards for federally regulated railways. The changes are part of the federal government’s response to last year’s deadly rail tragedy in the Quebec community of Lac-Megantic. New legislation introduced today would establish minimum insuranceRead More

Toronto, An extreme cold warning has ended for Toronto after a morning of bitterly cold wind chill values. As of 6:30 a.m. the temperature in Toronto was a frigid -23 C, feeling more like -34 with the wind chill. Environment Canda cancelled the warning around 11 a.m. as the temperatureRead More