PICKERING, Ont. – Ontario’s incoming premier says he’s focusing on the idea of selling cannabis in government-owned liquor stores but will consult with municipalities, stakeholders and his caucus on how recreational marijuana should be sold in the province. The outgoing Liberals had planned to roll out 150 standalone government-run potRead More

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the number of people collecting employment insurance in April fell to the lowest level in at least 21 years. The federal agency says 453,100 people received the regular wage insurance payments in April, down 100,200 or 18 per cent since April 2017, and the lowestRead More

PICKERING, Ont. — Doug Ford says he is delivering on his campaign promise to keep the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station open until 2024. In a news conference at the generating station this morning, the premier-designate said the move would protect thousands of jobs. The power plant east of Toronto becameRead More

TORONTO – Manulife Financial Corp. says it will cut its workforce by about 700 jobs as part of a wider restructuring of its operations as it makes a greater push to digital. The company says the job cuts will come through voluntary exit programs and natural attrition over the nextRead More

Ottawa, June 20 Canadian Parliament has passed a “historic” bill legalising the recreational use of marijuana nationwide, becoming the second country in the world to do so. The Cannabis Act passed its final hurdle on Tuesday in a 52-29 vote in the Senate. The bill controls and regulates how theRead More

OTTAWA – U.S. President Donald Trump is accusing Canadians of buying products south of the border, then sneaking them back home – all because of what he calls “massive” tariffs on American goods. Trump, speaking to a gathering of small business owners in Washington, is railing again against the NorthRead More

TORONTO — Ontario’s incoming premier said Tuesday that teachers and nurses are exempt from the public service hiring freeze he has ordered as part of his efforts to curb government spending. The Progressive Conservatives had said the freeze did not apply to essential frontline staff such as police, corrections officersRead More

York Regional Police say the body of a missing Vaughan woman who was last seen near Ashbridges Bay last month has been found in Niagara Region. Zabia Afzal, who was a 30-year-old York University doctoral student, went missing from the area of Highway 400 and Major Mackenzie Drive West atRead More

Toronto : Toronto police have identified the man who was allegedly pushed to his death at Bloor-Yonge Station as a 73-year-old Toronto resident. Yosuke Hayahara was waiting for an eastbound train at the station Monday morning when police allege that a stranger shoved him into the path of an oncomingRead More

TORONTO — Ontario’s incoming premier has put the public service under a hiring freeze as part of a series of measures meant to limit spending as he re-examines the province’s books. A spokesman for Doug Ford says the Progressive Conservative leader has also directed government ministries to cancel “subscription-based services”Read More