Toronto, Canada will soon contribute to a United Nations climate fund that helps impoverished nations cope with climate change and to develop cleaner sources of energy, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Sunday. The pledge, made at the end of the Group of 20 summit in Australia, comes on the heels ofRead More

Toronto. Drivers in Toronto and the GTA woke up to a messy commute Monday as the area saw the first significant snowfall of the season. About five centimetres of snow fell in York, Durham and Peel regions Monday morning, blanketing cars trees and walkways. Some parts of Toronto also sawRead More

Richmond Hill, York Regional Police have charged a man in connection with a fatal hit-and-run incident that left a 70-year-old man dead in Richmond Hill Saturday. Police said the elderly man was crossing Yonge Street south of Bond Crescent when he was struck by a northbound dark-coloured SUV around 7Read More

Toronto/Auckland, On the eve of a G20 summit in Australia expected to focus in part on the crisis in Syria and Iraq, Stephen Harper says Canada does not support war on the Syrian government or any Middle East nation — only war against the Islamic State. “The government of CanadaRead More

Toronto, Andrea Horwath faces a crucial vote on her leadership Saturday as New Democrats from across Ontario meet for the first time since they placed third in the June 12 election, when the Liberals won a majority government. The leadership review is automatic, held every second year, but there areRead More

Brantford, The family of an 11-year-old aboriginal girl with cancer has a constitutional right to opt for traditional medicine over chemotherapy, an Ontario judge ruled Friday in what some observers called a landmark decision. A hospital that had been treating the First Nations girl sought to have the child apprehendedRead More

Halifax, Police in Halifax say charges will not be laid against people who published the name of the victim in a high-profile child pornography case that was subject to a publication ban. Investigators have wrapped up seven files of possible breaches of a court-ordered ban on the identity of theRead More

Toronto, A clinical trial of the made-in-Canada Ebola vaccine will be conducted in this country, Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada announced Friday. The location of the trial — Halifax — comes as a serious disappointment to Ebola researchers at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. At leastRead More

Toronto,  Sears Canada has dramatically reduced its workforce amid declining sales, but newly appointed acting CEO Ronald Boire insists he hasn’t come to Canada to play the retailer’s swan song. “If you look at my past that’s not what I’ve done,” he said in an interview Wednesday at the company’sRead More

Auckland, New Zealand — Stephen Harper is meeting today with his New Zealand counterpart in the first official visit by a Canadian prime minister since Jean Chretien made the lengthy trip exactly 19 years ago. Harper and John Key have a warm relationship, meeting on the sidelines of various globalRead More