Toronto, Mayoral candidate Olivia Chow continued her attack on rival John Tory Tuesday by attempting to draw comparisons between the frontrunner and Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. While speaking to reporters outside Queen’s Park, Chow said that by electing Tory, Torontonians would just be replacing one conservative mayor with another. “LikeRead More

  SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, Que. — Police say a car was driven deliberately into two soldiers, killing one of them in what Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney called an act of violence against Canada that was “clearly linked” to terrorist ideology. Blaney said Tuesday that Canada is taking terrorist threats seriously, addingRead More

  OTTAWA – The House of Commons has unanimously supported bestowing honorary Canadian citizenship upon Pakistani teenager and co-winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, Malala Yousafzai. The honour comes on the eve of Yousafzai’s visit to Canada where she’ll participate in an event on women’s rights in Toronto. PrimeRead More

  THUNDER BAY, Ont. – A WestJet flight travelling from Edmonton to Toronto has made an emergency landing in Thunder Bay, Ont., after a report of possible smoke in the cabin. Airline spokesman Robert Palmer says the flight was carrying 95 passengers and six crew members and took off fromRead More

Toronto, Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned about the potential for the spread of Ebola at an award ceremony in Toronto today, saying that much like polio the disease must not be underestimated. Harper said the current situation with Ebola reminds us that in an age of globalization, global trade and travel,Read More

Toronto, Under pressure from rival mayoral candidate Olivia Chow, John Tory has announced that he will release a full list of campaign donors before Torontonians go to the polls at the end of the month. Chow, who plans to publish her campaign donor list on Wednesday, held a press conferenceRead More

As consumers celebrated low prices at the pumps this week, economists fretted over a new report that suggests prolonged low oil prices could cost Alberta more than $1 billion. On Friday, GasBuddy.com, a website that compiles gas prices from around North America, listed the average price of gas in CanadaRead More

OTTAWA — The federal government says Canada will start shipping its experimental Ebola vaccine to the World Health Organization on Monday. The government says in a release the Public Health Agency of Canada is supplying the vaccine to the UN body in Geneva in its role as the international co-ordinatingRead More

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau projects the image of a self-assured, impeccably turned-out, celebrity heart throb. But it wasn’t always that way. By the Liberal leader’s own account, he was an awkward, insecure, pimply-faced youth who was traumatized by his parents’ very public split and his mother’s mental illness, an indifferentRead More

Toronto, It also took aim at his change of heart on making the downtown relief line a top transit priority and criticized Tory for comments he made as the head of Civic Action. “Mr. Tory loved to talk about the need for honesty and how transit can’t be built forRead More