Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Call it Taylor’s Toronto, at least for a month. Toronto councillors have voted to temporarily mark a route through the downtown core with signs honouring megastar Taylor Swift when she brings her Eras tour to the city later this year. A near-unanimous motion that passed Thursday designates a route from the Rogers Centre […]

OTTAWA — The Law Society of British Columbia says a DNA test shows a former judge and Order of Canada recipient accused of falsely claiming to be Cree “most likely” has Indigenous heritage. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond previously served as B.C.’s representative for children and youth, and was well known as a lawyer on Indigenous rights. […]

OTTAWA — Bob Rae, Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, will head the UN’s Economic and Social Council. Global Affairs Canada says Rae has been elected president of the council for a one-year term. The Economic and Social Council is one of the UN’s main six bodies and co-ordinates its work on international development. Global […]

Loblaw said a boycott of its stores during its latest quarter had a minimal impact, as the company attributed lower profits to a settlement over an alleged bread price-fixing scheme. “The overall financial impact was minor,” president and CEO Per Bank said of the boycott on a conference call with analysts to discuss the company’s […]

TORONTO — Ontario Provincial Police officers are now the highest paid in the province, their union says, after they ratified a four-year deal last week. The contract covers 2023 to 2026 and the officers will see raises of 4.75 per cent retroactive to the first year of the deal, followed by an increase of 4.5 […]

OTTAWA — Opposition Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre blames a national rise in crime and the recent killing of an Ontario teenager on what he calls failed Liberal and NDP policies. Poilievre held a press conference in London, Ont., today, just one day after the community held a vigil for Breanna Broadfoot, 17, who police say […]

OTTAWA — Norad says Canadian and American fighter jets have intercepted a group of Russian and Chinese planes flying near Alaska. The North American Aerospace Defence Command says the planes were detected and tracked on Wednesday. The planes stayed in international airspace and their activity is not seen as a threat. U.S. officials say it’s […]

TORONTO — The defence is seeking a six-year sentence for former fashion tycoon Peter Nygard. Defence lawyer Gerri Wiebe is asking the court to give Nygard 1.5 days of credit for each of the more than 1,000 days he has already spent in custody, which would leave him with just under two years left to […]

TORONTO — Losses in industrial and base metal stocks dragged Canada’s main stock index lower Wednesday, while markets in the U.S. slid. Stocks were under pressure amid a “sizeable selloff” led by the tech sector, said Tamsin Wilding, principal and portfolio manager for fixed income at Leith Wheeler Investment Counsel Ltd. U.S. stock indexes suffered […]

TORONTO — Losses in the mining sector led Canada’s main stock index lower in late-morning trading on Thursday, while U.S. stock markets rose. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 35.90 points at 22,603.67. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 327.97 points at 40,181.84. The S&P 500 index was up 35.41 points […]