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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told his MPs Wednesday that he would reflect on what they had to say in a three-hour caucus meeting where some Liberals confronted him about his leadership. Trudeau was smiling when he left the meeting on Wednesday afternoon, and as he walked briskly past a horde of reporters on […]

TORONTO — Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic has confirmed that Canadian swingman RJ Barrett was ruled out for Toronto’s home opener against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Barrett left Toronto’s first pre-season game on Oct. 6 early with a sprained shoulder and has not played since. The product of Mississauga, Ont., said on Tuesday he was day-to-day […]

Police were called into a meeting at the Niagara Catholic District School Board on Tuesday as audience members grew hostile while the board debated a motion to ban the Pride flag from school properties, which was ultimately voted down. The motion, introduced by trustee Natalia Benoit, would have amended the board’s flag protocol to specify […]

A man who stabbed a professor and two students in a University of Waterloo gender studies class last year appeared to be in a “downward spiral of functioning” and may have experienced a psychotic break in the weeks before the attack, a psychologist told his sentencing hearing Wednesday. Geovanny Villalba-Aleman’s mental health deteriorated after he […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index closed down Wednesday as the Bank of Canada cut its key interest rate by half a percentage point, while U.S. stock markets also fell. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 143.08 points at 24,573.62 in broad losses led by energy and tech. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index closed down Wednesday as the Bank of Canada cut its key interest rate by half a percentage point, while U.S. stock markets also fell. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 143.08 points at 24,573.62 in broad losses led by energy and tech. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial […]

TORONTO — Canadian financial institutions say they are lowering their prime lending rates to match the decrease announced by the Bank of Canada. The central bank lowered its key interest rate by half a percentage point Wednesday to 3.75 per cent. All of the Big Six banks including RBC, TD, BMO, Scotiabank, CIBC and National […]

TORONTO — Canadian financial institutions say they are lowering their prime lending rates to match the decrease announced by the Bank of Canada. The central bank lowered its key interest rate by half a percentage point Wednesday to 3.75 per cent. All of the Big Six banks including RBC, TD, BMO, Scotiabank, CIBC and National […]

OTTAWA — Canada’s anti-money laundering agency is warning about the key areas that lawyers could be aiding in the illicit movement of funds. In a special bulletin, Fintrac says banks and other reporting entities should be especially mindful of the potential in areas like the misuse of client or trust accounts, real estate purchases, and […]

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was smiling as he walked out of what was expected to be a tense caucus meeting this afternoon, telling reporters the Liberal party is “strong and united.” The meeting on Parliament Hill lasted about three hours, and Liberal MPs were tight-lipped about what happened behind closed doors. More coming. […]