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OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s housing bill has been defeated in the House of Commons with the Liberals, New Democrats and Bloc Québécois voting against the legislation. Poilievre introduced the bill in September and touted it as the Conservative plan to tackle the country’s housing crisis. Poilievre’s focus on housing affordability has helped grow […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index fell 1.6 per cent Wednesday in a broad-based decline, while U.S. stock markets also fell. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 367.07 points at 21,897.98. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 411.32 points at 38,441.54. The S&P 500 index was down 39.09 points at 5,266.95, […]

OTTAWA — A Toronto MP says vandalism that defaced the outside of her constituency office is an “attack on democracy.” Liberal MP Julie Dzerowicz says two people dressed in black approached her Davenport constituency office at 1 a.m. on Tuesday and painted a threatening message on the windows. Photos of the office show red paint […]

TORONTO — An arbitrator has awarded Ontario’s elementary teachers a raise of nearly 12 per cent over the course of its four-year deal with the province. The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario says the Arbitration Board awarded its 80,000 teachers increases of three per cent for the first two years of the agreement that begins […]

TORONTO — A major Toronto hip-hop music festival has been postponed after organizers say one of its headliners cancelled his appearance. Rapper Lil Wayne was billed as one of the top acts at the Hot in Toronto single-day summer festival, originally slated for June 22 at Downsview Park. But images posted by Reddit users show […]

OTTAWA — Health Minister Mark Holland says he needs new powers to unilaterally take dangerous products off the shelves if they’re hurting people and not being used as intended. He defended the new powers in the Liberals’ budget legislation against claims by an advocacy group with loose ties to the tobacco industry that is warning […]

HAMILTON — Nick Taylor hopes that he or a fellow Canadian win the RBC Canadian Open this year. Taylor, from Abbotsford, B.C., won last year’s men’s national golf championship at Oakdale Golf and Country Club in Toronto. His historic four-hole playoff victory ended a 69-year drought for Canadians at their own national championship. This year’s […]

TORONTO — “Little Bird” was the big winner at the second industry gala for this year’s Canadian Screen Awards, which recognized excellence in TV craft. The limited series that aired on Crave and APTN took home eight awards, including best direction for a drama series for Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ work on the first episode, “Love is […]

OTTAWA — The federal justice minister says the government’s online harms bill includes measures to protect children using age-appropriate web design. His comment comes as legislators study a Senate bill that seeks to require websites to verify users’ ages and keep minors from accessing “sexually explicit material.” Privacy experts have criticized the proposed legislation for […]

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is outlining a variety of steps intended to make the much-criticized Access to Information system work better. But it appears any changes to the federal law will have to wait until after the next formal review, set to begin a year from now. The Access to Information Act allows people […]