Ontario: The co-chair of the Ontario Liberal Party campaign has issued an apology after some harsh words were said against Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford during a debate at CP24 on Friday afternoon. The salty language came about as the campaign directors for the PC, Liberal and NDP parties –Read More

STRASBOURG, Sask. — Mark Cross was a ferocious competitor when he played hockey, but the assistant coach for the Humboldt Broncos had a calming presence on his players, teammates and friends. “Mark was an incredibly hard worker. He was extremely bright. He was one of the most caring kids youRead More

LONDON – Justin Trudeau is heading home from a lengthy, three-country foreign tour in which the prime minister appeared to recapture his international mojo and reassert several key alliances, but didn’t sign off on any big deals or declarations. When the 10-day trip to Peru, France and the U.K., withRead More

SARNIA, Ont. – Ontario’s Progressive Conservative leader says he is “dead against” safe injection sites and believes the focus should be on drug rehabilitation instead. Doug Ford says that if elected premier in June, he will do everything he can to fight the ongoing opioid crisis and get people strugglingRead More

OTTAWA — Canada’s annual inflation rate continued creeping higher last month to hit 2.3 per cent. The March figure from Statistics Canada shows the pace of inflation inched a little farther past the midpoint of the central bank’s ideal range of between one and three per cent. By comparison, inflationRead More

AMHERSTBURG, Ont. — There are no reports of injuries or damage after a minor earthquake struck southwestern Ontario Thursday night. The United States Geological Survey, which first reported the quake, said the magnitude 3.6 temblor struck near Amherstburg, Ont. Nick Ackerley, a seismic analyst at Natural Resources Canada, said theRead More

LONDON — The explosive debate around the Trans Mountain pipeline followed Justin Trudeau to Britain’s capital on Wednesday, as environmental activists confronted the prime minister with calls to cancel the contentious project. The activists from Greenpeace UK sought to make their point with an elaborate protest that included erecting aRead More

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is maintaining its trend-setting interest rate as its careful assessment of the timing of future hikes continues amid a backdrop of moderating growth. The central bank, which kept its rate at 1.25 per cent Wednesday, said slower first-quarter growth of about 1.3 per centRead More

TORONTO – Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says her Tory opponent is just like U.S. President Donald Trump, calling Doug Ford a bully and a coward who “traffics in smears and lies.” Wynne pushed back Wednesday when asked about comments Ford made a day earlier in which he suggested some LiberalsRead More

TORONTO — A key ratings agency has downgraded its outlook on Ontario’s finances to “negative” from “stable” in light of the Liberal government’s plan to run six consecutive multibillion-dollar deficits. Moody’s Investor Services says spending pressure will challenge the province’s ability to “sustain balanced fiscal results” over a number ofRead More