Author: The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Less than five weeks after she resigned her cabinet seat over a dispute with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland has launched her campaign to replace him as the leader of the Liberal party. In a one-sentence statement posted on social media Friday morning, she said her official campaign launch will come Sunday. […]

Another person has been arrested as police continue to investigate the alleged kidnapping and murder of a Markham, Ont., Realtor. Police say a 19-year-old from Toronto is the sixth person — and the fifth teenager — to be charged in connection to Yuk-Ying Anita Mui’s case. York Regional Police say he was arrested Wednesday and […]

TORONTO — Hudson’s Bay says it has laid off 41 staff as it revamps the retailer’s structure. Charla Parkinson, a spokesperson for the department store chain, confirmed the staffing cut in an email but did not answer questions about what roles or cities laid off staff were in. She positioned the layoff as a result […]

TORONTO — TD Bank Group is speeding up the its plan to install Raymond Chun as chief executive and cutting the bonuses more than 40 executives as it continues to deal with the fallout of its anti-money laundering failures in the United States. The bank says Chun, who is currently chief operating officer, will become […]

OTTAWA — Chrystia Freeland is running to be the next Leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of Canada. She says in a statement posted on social media she will officially launch her campaign on Sunday. More coming. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 17, 2025. Kyle Duggan, The Canadian […]

TORONTO — Members of the restaurant industry are calling on the federal government to make the GST holiday permanent, even though some businesses have yet to see much impact from the tax break. Some business owners say the tax break on restaurant meals stretching from Dec. 14 to Feb. 15 has been a big enough […]

OTTAWA — The ball is in Chrystia Freeland’s court, now that Mark Carney has officially launched his campaign to become the next Liberal leader. Carney announced alongside supporters in Edmonton on Thursday that he plans to run for the Liberal leadership. Politics watchers will be waiting to hear what Freeland has to say next, as […]

TORONTO — Canadian tech companies say they are patching together their own standards, mostly borrowed from European laws, to guide them through the limbo of prorogation. When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prorogued Parliament until March 24, that automatically wiped tabled cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence, data and online harms bills from the agenda. Tech companies which […]

When Douglas Judson asked the Township of Emo to declare June as Pride month and display a rainbow flag for a week in 2020, he never imagined the request would turn into a years-long legal dispute that still has no end in sight. “This is generally a non-controversial thing to ask for,” said Judson, the […]

TORONTO — Being married is not a prerequisite to portraying the tortured couples at the heart of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” but Paul Gross and Martha Burns certainly see the advantage of being able to draw on their own longtime union in order to inhabit the stormy characters. The veteran stage and screen stars […]