MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Soccer fans across Canada will be glued to their screens this morning as Croatia takes on France in the World Cup final in Moscow. It’s the first ever final for the Croatians, while France is there for the third time and goes into the match as theRead More

TORONTO — There is one winning ticket for the $60 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw — and it was sold somewhere in Ontario. There were also 21 Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each up for grabs, and six of them were claimed by ticket holders in OntarioRead More

Toronto, Environment Canada has issued a heat warning for Toronto, the GTA, Hamilton and the Niagara region, calling for temperatures above 30 C on Sunday and Monday along with some high humidity. “High temperatures are expected to be in the low thirties with humidex values near 40,” Meteorologists said Saturday.Read More

A section of southbound Allen Road will be closed this weekend due to the ongoing construction of the Eglinton Crosstown transit project. All southbound lanes will be closed from Lawrence to Eglinton avenues between 11 p.m. on Friday and 5 a.m. on Monday. The city says that the closure isRead More

OTTAWA – A growing number of Canadian exporters were saying the NAFTA talks were having a negative impact on their operations even before the trade dispute with the United States escalated in recent weeks. A survey done for Export Development Canada found 28 per cent of the 1,000 exporters askedRead More

OTTAWA — A Liberal MP who was targeted with hate mail and death threats last year over a motion to condemn Islamophobia and systemic racism has asked Twitter to investigate a parody account she believes has crossed the line from funny to hateful. The Iqra Khalid account is one ofRead More

TORONTO — NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says Doug Ford is repealing Ontario’s modernized sex-education curriculum to please social conservative supporters, a move that she says will hurt the province’s children. Horwath made the comments at an event today where advocates spoke out in support of the curriculum put in placeRead More

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government embarked on an exhaustive creative process and spent $24,000 to hire a consultant to help rebrand its new investment promotion body to grab the attention of foreign investors. In the end, they changed the name of their “Invest in Canada Hub” to “Invest inRead More

BRUSSELS — The Canadian military will command a new NATO training and capacity building mission in Iraq for its first year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in Brussels on Wednesday as part of the alliance’s annual summit. He said the mission, to begin in the fall of 2018 in BaghdadRead More

OTTAWA – The Bank of Canada raised its benchmark interest rate Wednesday in an economy that it predicts will remain resilient even as it faces an even bigger bite from deepening trade tensions. The rate hike was the central bank’s first interest rate move in six months and lifted theRead More