Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Ontario’s medical regulator is proposing sweeping changes to prescribing safer supply drugs, The Canadian Press has learned. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario is looking to clamp down on the practice and is set to hold a board of directors meeting next week to decide on the proposed changes. Safer supply […]

TORONTO — Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area were down in September from a year ago, while average prices continued to decline. The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board said on Tuesday sales totalled 5,040 in September, down nine per cent year-over-year. The result came as the average selling price for the month was $1,006,409, […]

TORONTO — Former federal Conservative minister Chris Alexander says he is quitting the race to become the next mayor of Toronto as advance voting begins in the city’s municipal election. Alexander says he decided to drop out after a recent poll showed he doesn’t have a clear path to victory. The veteran politician and diplomat […]

A slow-roasted turkey, buttery stuffing, root vegetables tossed in rosemary and olive oil, creamy mashed potatoes and a cranberry sauce forgotten in the fridge. It sounds like a table set for Thanksgiving dinner. A resurgence of patriotism among Canadians have some looking more closely at ingredients and product origins to make sure their festivities are […]

TORONTO — It’s been more than 60 years, but Jim Betts still remembers standing in front of his television set as a teenager, beaming with pride after Northern Dancer won the prestigious Kentucky Derby in 1964, a first for a Canadian-bred racehorse. “I remember the feeling in the country was so ecstatic at that point,” […]

BOSTON — The U.S. Coast Guard has identified the six people who were on board a Canadian air ambulance flying from Bermuda to Boston when it went down off the coast of Nantucket. A news release from the coast guard says the two Bermudians aboard the Gulfstream jet were Marilyn Lavonne Bean and Sergio Wayne […]

TORONTO — A senior Toronto police officer has been charged with impaired driving over the weekend. Toronto police say officers responded to a call about a person who was reportedly asleep behind the wheel of a stopped vehicle in the city’s east end around 6 a.m. on Sunday. Police say Insp. Michael Hayles, of 55 […]

BRAMPTON — Prosecutors allege an Air Canada employee provided a doctored waybill that allowed another man to pick up more than $22 million in gold and currency from a Toronto Pearson airport cargo bay in what investigators have called one of the largest gold heists in Canadian history. Parmpal Sidhu was one of the “inside […]

TORONTO — The Department of National Defence says two members of the Canadian Armed Forces were arrested by Toronto police on charges related to organized crime, kidnapping and firearms theft. The department says Sachintha Fernando and James Moreau, both members of the 7th Toronto Regiment, have been removed from duties and their access to military […]

TORONTO — A blind voter told an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal hearing on Monday that Elections Ontario has failed to ensure he can mark and cast his ballot independently and privately. Accessibility advocate David Lepofsky filed a human rights complaint more than seven years ago, following an incident during the 2018 Ontario election. He said […]