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TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford is defending his government’s skills development funding system that allows a minister to hand-pick recipients against the advice of bureaucrats, even after referring an audit of one company to the police. Labour Minister David Piccini has come under sustained fire from opposition parties calling for his resignation since an […]

Warren Abbey made his first million dollars selling chocolate bars and chips, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. After spending much of his teen years on the edges of gangs and gun violence, and more than a decade in prison, the million-dollar milestone is “surreal,” he says, because he never imagined he could […]

Two people have been charged in a spate of mausoleum and cemetery thefts in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and the Niagara region. Halton police say they investigated more than 300 thefts over the last two months in which thieves targeted jewelry, decorative cremation urns, keepsakes and other valuables. Police say eight mausoleums and […]

TORONTO — The Palestinian flag is flying over Toronto’s city hall this morning after similar moves by other Canadian cities. The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians, which petitioned for the move, says it marks a “symbolic show of solidarity” on the 37th anniversary of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence. An Ontario court dismissed an […]

CALGARY — TransAlta Corp. has signed a deal to buy Far North Power Corp. and its four natural gas-fired power plants in Ontario for $95 million. The power utility is buying the assets from an affiliate of Hut 8 Corp. and Macquarie Equipment Finance Ltd. The plants are located in Iroquois Falls, Kingston, North Bay, […]

Durham Regional Police say they are investigating after a male died from gunshot wounds at a local hospital. Police say officers received a call at around 11 p.m. about a person who was dropped off at the hospital after being shot. They say officers located a “related scene” in the area of Mara Road and […]

TORONTO — The City of Toronto is expected to join several other cities across Canada in raising the Palestinian flag this morning at city hall. The city is set to raise the Palestinian flag at 10 a.m. in commemoration of the 37th anniversary of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence after a petition from the International […]

SOUTH GLENGARRY — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says the pilot killed in a Sunday mid-air collision in eastern Ontario was taking part in a training exercise. The TSB says it has deployed a team to Martintown in South Glengarry, about 115 kilometres away from Ottawa, after a mid-air crash involving a 172 Cessna […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say an 84-year-old woman has died after a house fire in the city’s Annex neighbourhood. Police say emergency responders were called to a house on fire in the area of Avenue Road and Boswell Avenue just after 11 p.m. Saturday. In a social media post, police said a woman of an […]

OTTAWA — As provincial governments wait to hear details of Ottawa’s new immigration targets, some are warning that coming cuts to the number of international student visas will put colleges and universities in a tighter financial bind. “The federal government’s decision to unilaterally proceed with another change impacting international students continues to force post-secondary institutions […]