Ottawa, Canada is sending a second mobile laboratory and the team to run it to West Africa in an effort to battle the Ebola outbreak, Health Minister Rona Ambrose announced Saturday. Job 1 for the new team will be to help Medecins Sans Frontieres — Doctors Without Borders — figure outRead More

Nuit Blanche, an annual all-night contemporary art festival, along with other upcoming events will make life a little more difficult for downtown motorists this weekend. Here is a look at some weekend road closures: NUIT BLANCHE: To create safer pedestrian access to the hundreds of installations featured at the all-nightRead More

Brampton, The federal deficit for the last fiscal year is expected to come in at $5.2 billion — well below earlier forecasts, says Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In the last federal budget, the deficit for 2013-14 was projected at $16.6 billion, Harper told a business audience Thursday in Brampton, Ont. “TheRead More

Ottawa, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau agrees that Canada must play a role in the struggle against militants in Iraq, but says that doesn’t necessarily mean combat. Trudeau says Prime Minister Stephen Harper seems intent on sending Canadians to war, but has yet to explain why. He’s telling the Canada2020 conference thatRead More

Toronto, Doug Ford is vowing to cut the land transfer tax by 15 per cent every year for the next four years in an attempt to follow through on a campaign promise Mayor Rob Ford was unable to fulfill. The tax, which was introduced in 2008, is levied on top ofRead More

Toronto, A pair of new attack ads put out by Doug Ford’s mayoral campaign highlight John Tory’s past defeats at the ballot box and denounce the frontrunner’s SmartTrack proposal as a “shaky idea” that will cost taxpayers money. The ads started airing on local radio stations Tuesday. In the first ad,Read More

Toronto, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne will be going on a trade mission to China later this month, an announcement that comes amid pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong that the Chinese government has declared illegal. Wynne will travel on her first international trade mission as premier to Nanjing and Shanghai, thenRead More

Toronto, The torch relay for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games will be a national event, with stops in five Canadian cities as well as more than 100 Ontario communities. Organizers say the torch will be carried by 3,000 people during its 41-day journey to the Games, and Canadians agedRead More

Toronto,The latest Forum Research poll has John Tory and Doug Ford surging ahead of Olivia Chow who was the frontrunner for several months in Toronto’s mayoral race till the end of July. In the phone survey of 1,167 people, 43 per cent of people said they would vote for JohnRead More

Ottawa, The federal cabinet is poised to consider the possible deployment of CF-18 jetfighters and CP-140 Aurora surveillance aircraft in the ever-expanding air war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. But there is concern within National Defence and among critics about the wear and tear of yet anotherRead More