Author: The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet on Friday morning. A government source confirms the prime minister will attend a swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall. This comes at the end of a tumultuous week that saw him lose his finance minister and face a new swell of pressure within his caucus for […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index was down nearly 100 points in late-morning trading, dragged lower by losses in industrial stocks, while U.S. stock markets moved up to regain some of their losses a day earlier. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 95.94 points at 24,461.06. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was […]

OTTAWA — Canada Post is set to start accepting commercial letters and parcels as it works to get back to normal operations following a month-long strike. The postal service has warned Canadians should expect delays into the new year as it works through a backlog of mail, after workers went back on the job Tuesday. […]

TORONTO — The timeline for opening a permanent new Ontario Science Centre appears to have been delayed, with infrastructure officials telling the auditor general’s office the centre is expected to be up and running in 2029. When Premier Doug Ford announced last year the planned move for the attraction, from its east Toronto location to […]

TORONTO — There’s no doubt about the defensive ability that new Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Andres Gimenez brings to the diamond. The big question mark is whether the 26-year-old Venezuelan can reverse two years of slipping numbers at the plate. “That’s what I’m working on in the off-season right now, trying to (put) everything […]

OWEN SOUND, Ont. — Police say three people from the United Kingdom have been charged in the 2023 death of an Owen Sound, Ont., restaurant owner. Ontario Provincial Police say 44-year-old Sharifur Rahman was assaulted in August 2023 and died from his injuries a week later. OPP say investigators discovered that suspects linked to the […]

TORONTO — Markets on both sides of the border fell sharply Wednesday afternoon after the U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates and shrank its projections for cuts in the new year, with the S&P 500 losing almost three per cent and the TSX down more than two per cent. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down […]

The union representing Ontario’s college faculties says it will be in a legal strike position as of Jan. 4., after saying there’s been no real progress in contract negotiations. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union had requested and received a no-board report from Ontario’s Labour Ministry, which is a formal notice that a board of […]

MacKenzie Scott continues to make medical debt relief a priority in her mysterious giving. This week, Undue Medical Debt, formerly RIP Medical Debt, announced it had received a rare third gift — $50 million — from the billionaire philanthropist, signaling her satisfaction with the group’s efforts to purchase medical debt in bulk from hospitals and […]

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — The Theodore Tugboat replica that was long a fixture in the Halifax Harbour has partially sunk while docked in St. Catharines, Ont. A news release says the life-size version of the TV character took on water late Tuesday night and is now mostly submerged in shallow water beside a dock. The […]