Canada

ONTARIO – Ontario’s quasi-judicial tribunals are not courts and should not be subject to the same principles of openness when it comes to their records, the province argued in a court filing Thursday. Responding to a constitutional challenge from the Toronto Star that calls on Ontario’s various administrative tribunals — …

TORONTO – A star minor hockey player and his mother were found dead in a home east of Toronto on Wednesday, hours before police arrested a man in connection with what they described as a double homicide. However, Durham Region police said later that a 13-year-old girl who was also …

TORONTO — Former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown will not be eligible to run in the riding he was nominated in for the province’s June 7 election, the party’s provincial nominations committee said late Thursday. The committee said in a statement that it reached a “unanimous decision” that Brown …

OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is sidestepping questions about political violence, saying the issue of whether force can be justified to defend Sikh people from oppression is too complex to be answered “in a simplistic manner.” Singh made the statement one day after a new video surfaced, showing him …

We all know how frustrating overpriced cable bills and subscription services can be. You pay for cable, Netflix, movies and sports on demand… it adds up. And of course there is all this hardware. Your receiver, AppleTV or Firesticks, DVD Player and often expensive Smart TV. So it doesn’t come …

VISION 2020 – Peel Region holds the unfortunate distinction of being the “Diabetes capital of Canada”. STOP Diabetes foundation’s (SDF) mission termed ‘SDF VISION 2020’ aims to remove this infamous #1 tag before the year 2020 by providing public health education. In addition to the mission of diabetes prevention, the …

U.S. President Donald Trump boasted in a fundraising speech in Missouri on Wednesday that he made up facts about trade in a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, according to a recording of the comments obtained by the Press Post. The newspaper said in a report posted on its website …

Canada is the seventh happiest country in the world, according to the 2018 World Happiness Report. And once again, Nordic countries have swapped positions — this year, it’s Finland’s turn on top. The country jumped from the fifth spot to take over first place from runner-up Norway, followed by Denmark, …

OTTAWA—A Toronto employment lawyer will run the investigation into how the Conservative party handled a sexual assault allegation made against former Tory MP Rick Dykstra by a young staffer in the middle of the 2015 federal election campaign. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says Carol Nielsen, a partner at the Toronto …

MONTREAL—The Quebec government will move to ban sales of sugary, high-alcohol beverages in convenience and grocery stores in an attempt to prevent younger consumers from buying them. Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux said Tuesday he will introduce an amendment to a bill seeking to modernize the province’s alcohol and gaming …