Toronto, April 24 At least 10 people have died after a man plowed a white rental van into a crowd of pedestrians in Canada’s biggest city Toronto, in what police dubbed a “deliberate” attack. The incident took place in broad daylight around 16 kilometers from a conference center hosting aRead More

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a Toronto man’s deadly rampage through city streets in a van still has no apparent link to a terrorist attack. He describes the attack that killed 10 and injured 15 as “horrific” and “senseless,” adding all Canadians stand with Toronto today. But whileRead More

TORONTO – The president of Toronto’s police union says an officer’s actions in arresting the suspect in a van attack that left at least 10 people dead Monday was “one shining moment” in an otherwise horrific day. Mike McCormack of the Toronto Police Association says the arrest, caught on videosRead More

OTTAWA — It was February 2017 when the first letter about anti-abortion groups and the Canada Summer Jobs program landed in Labour Minister Patty Hajdu’s office. The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada wanted Hajdu to keep crisis pregnancy centres — which offer an anti-abortion spin on pregnancy counselling — fromRead More

TORONTO – Former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown has filed a defamation lawsuit against CTV News over its reporting of what he alleges are false accusations of sexual misconduct. Brown, who stepped down in January hours after the CTV report, alleges the network and several journalists involved in theRead More

TORONTO — Doug Ford is blaming what he calls the “mess” he inherited from his predecessor for his controversial decision to appoint about a dozen Tory candidates in ridings across the province. The Progressive Conservative leader says the appointments — announced over the weekend — were necessary because of theRead More

TORONTO – Ministers from G7 countries will be tackling how to deal with foreign fighters returning from Middle East battlefields. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says the defeat of Islamic State militants last year in Syria has caused them to spread out, both geographically and virtually, on the internet, whereRead More

Ontario: Elections Ontario says it is investigating a complaint made by the Ontario PC party, arguing that Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne is using taxpayer-supported government announcements to “make political statements to attack her political opponents.” In a conference call with reporters on Saturday afternoon, Former MPP Frank Klees said WynneRead More

VANCOUVER — Seeing trash cans overflowing with straws night after night has prompted a server in Toronto to launch a campaign against the plastic item that’s become a target of the British government as it aims to rid such pollution from oceans, though Canada has stopped short of pushing forRead More

Ontario: The Ontario PCs would win a strong majority if a provincial election was held today, and the NDP would form the Official Opposition, a new poll suggests. Forum Research found that 46 per cent of decided or leaning voters said on April 18 that they would support the OntarioRead More