Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Professors are re-evaluating how they approach the work of Alice Munro following revelations the writer protected her husband after learning he had sexually abused her daughter. The academic community began reckoning with its relationship to the Nobel laureate after Andrea Robin Skinner published a first-person essay this weekend detailing the abuse at the […]

TORONTO — The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is investing about $811 million for a 20 per cent stake in European company Team.blue, which helps simplify online business for entrepreneurs and small businesses. The transaction values Team.blue at about $7 billion. The software company says the new investment will support its growth strategy. Hafiz Lalani, […]

OTTAWA — An Israeli defence contractor is taking the Canadian government to court after the company says it was taken out of the running for a multimillion-dollar military equipment contract without explanation. Elbit Security Systems Ltd. says in an application filed in Federal Court last month that Public Services and Procurement Canada has refused to […]

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading to a dinner at the White House this evening, as the U.S. president hosts NATO leaders. Joe Biden’s health has been under international scrutiny since a disastrous debate performance last month against Donald Trump. Biden’s team has said the president is sharpest earlier in the day and […]

IGNACE, ONTARIO — A northwestern Ontario town is set to decide today whether it is willing to become the site of a deep geological repository for Canada’s nuclear waste. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization plans to decide this year where millions of bundles of used nuclear fuel will be placed in a network of underground […]

SURREY, B.C. — British Columbia’s premier says the province worked with the federal government to change its bail rules, so he is not sure why a man with a long and violent criminal history was released from jail weeks before the stabbing death of a woman in her Surrey, B.C., home. David Eby called the […]

OTTAWA — A former federal consultant has been charged with fraud for overbilling the government by $25,000. The RCMP say Clara Elaine Visser faces one charge of fraud over $5,000, following an investigation first launched by Public Services and Procurement Canada three years ago. The RCMP say the charge was laid based on evidence showing […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index posted a loss on Tuesday as weakness in energy and industrial stocks led the market lower, while U.S. stock markets were mixed. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 83.63 points at 22,042.50. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 52.82 points at 39,291.97. The S&P 500 […]

Ontario’s top doctor says nine people in the province have become sick with listeriosis and five have been hospitalized in an outbreak that triggered a national recall of certain plant-based milks. While the cases reported so far are all in Ontario, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is urging people across the country not to drink […]

TORONTO — Henoc Muamba didn’t have much use for his degree in information systems over the course of his 12-year CFL career. Now that he’s retired from playing, he’s finally getting to put his education to use. Muamba was a speaker at Toronto’s Collision tech conference last month, an annual networking event that will be […]