Calgary, Calgary’s mayor says a now-delayed Alberta government bill about gay-straight alliances in schools would have focused international attention on “what kind of hillbillies we are.”  During a speech to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, Naheed Nenshi called the debate over Bill 10 “damaging and hateful.”  Premier JimRead More

Coun. Giorgio Mammoliti has pleaded guilty to four charges under the Municipal Elections Act and has agreed to pay a penalty of $17,500 for exceeding the spending limit during the 2010 election campaign and filing false paperwork. Mammoliti entered the pleas on Friday morning, bringing an end to a sagaRead More

Ottawa, Canadian warplanes have conducted another attack on Islamic State forces. Two CF-18s Hornets bombed an extremist fighting position about 250 kilometres southwest of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. National Defence reports the attack, which happened Wednesday, was carried out with laser-guide munitions and a Canadian C-140 Aurora surveillance planeRead More

Toronto, Premier Kathleen Wynne is publicly calling on Stephen Harper to meet face-to-face with her for the first time in more than a year. Wynne has penned an open letter to the prime minister in which she reminds him that they haven’t met since Dec. 5, 2013, a period ofRead More

Toronto, Heavy snowfall in the GTA has created messy road conditions for many motorists today and police say they are responding to about one collision every three minutes in Toronto. By noon, the snowfall total at Pearson was up to 10 centimetres but that number appears to be much higherRead More

Ottawa, Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz says tighter regulations on the financial sector were a no-brainer in the aftermath of the 2008-09 global crisis but there now needs to be enough breathing room for “natural” market forces to blossom. In a speech Thursday to the Economic Club of NewRead More

Toronto, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is ignoring opposition calls to fire her energy minister over a critical report on the government’s smart meter program and comments he made about the auditor general. She and Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli say they disagree with the auditor general’s conclusions that the $2-billion smartRead More

Vancouver, A large group of Sikhs in the Canadian province of British Columbia quit the Liberal Party of Canada to protest the nomination of a party candidate backed by the World Sikh Organisation (WSO). “We think this Liberal Party’s been hijacked by the WSO,” said Rajinder Singh Bhela, a longtimeRead More

Rob Ford says he is trying to put on a ‘brave face’ for his young children as he gets ready to begin his fifth round of chemotherapy next week. Ford, who was diagnosed with a rare form of soft tissue cancer in September, will return to Mount Sinai Hospital onRead More

Toronto, Toronto road crews are doing what they can to prepare for what could be the city’s first significant blast of winter this season. Environment Canada has issued a special weather warning for Toronto, the GTHA and cottage country. About 10 centimetres of snow is expected to fall across most ofRead More