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Conservative candidate Don Stewart remained hopeful late Monday despite trailing his Liberal opponent in the Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection where results were extremely slow to come in. “Let’s not give it up,” he said, in a brief stop at his campaign party at a Jewish restaurant in the riding, around 11:30 p.m. For most of the […]

TORONTO — A musical adaptation of a portion of Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” took home a leading four prizes in the musical theatre division at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards on Monday night. “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812,” put on by Crow’s Theatre and The Musical Stage Company, won accolades including […]

TORONTO — The polls have closed in Toronto-St. Paul’s but Elections Canada is warning results may take longer than normal. While the national elections agency still expects results tonight there are a record-breaking 84 candidates on the ballot which may delay counting. The ballot itself is almost one-metre long thanks to a protest group calling […]

TORONTO — A 14-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder in a shooting that left two men dead and three others wounded in a high school parking lot on a weekend in early June, police said Monday. Det. Sgt. Phillip Campbell said the teen was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and seven […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index jumped almost 300 points Monday on the strength of a broad-based rally while U.S. stock markets were mixed. The S&P/TSX composite index ended up 293.73 points, or 1.36 per cent, at 21,848.59. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 260.88 points at 39,411.21. The S&P 500 […]

TORONTO — Ontario Infrastructure Minister Kinga Surma is defending the decision to abruptly close the Ontario Science Centre, saying it was done for health and safety reasons. Surma says she had every intention of keeping the science centre open in its east Toronto location until a new one the government is planning to build on […]

OTTAWA — Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem is sounding the alarm on Canada’s productivity problem and urging policymakers to dig into why the country struggles with low business investment. According to prepared remarks he delivered to the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce Monday, Macklem hailed the strengths of Canada’s job market, including high labour force […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say the number of incidents officers determined to be hate-motivated has gone up nearly 55 per cent compared with the same period last year. Deputy Chief Robert Johnson told the Toronto Police Service Board this morning that officers are responding to an average of five hate crime calls a day. He […]

OTTAWA — An internal review of anti-tobacco legislation indicates the federal approach to curbing nicotine use in Canada isn’t working, but the group Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada says the Liberals have promised no remedies. The addictions minister quietly tabled the report at the end of the spring sitting of Parliament, before MPs returned to […]

TORONTO — It hasn’t taken Rasheed Bailey long to make a solid first impression with the Toronto Argonauts. The six-foot-one, 217-pound receiver has six catches for 71 yards in his first two games with Toronto (2-0), registering TD grabs in each contest. Bailey had just one catch in the Argos’ 39-36 home win over the […]