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FREDERICTON — Freezing rain left trees and power lines coated and roads slick Monday morning as Environment Canada issued weather warnings for large parts of the Atlantic region. The weather agency put most of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton and the western half of Newfoundland under freezing rain warnings. Most schools in New […]

TORONTO — Trade tensions with the U.S. will likely mean a painful next few months for workers and the economy but could be short-lived, the Conference Board of Canada said in its latest outlook. Canada could see some 160,000 people lose their job in the second quarter, pushing unemployment up to 7.3 per cent, while […]

TORONTO — The Ontario provincial government says nine supervised consumption sites will close Tuesday as planned, despite a recent court injunction allowing them to remain open temporarily. The office of Health Minister Sylvia Jones says nine sites that applied for funding to transition into government-approved service hubs will proceed with those plans. The Ontario Superior […]

Halton Regional Police say one of their officers has been charged with fraud following an investigation by the Ontario Provincial Police. Police say the OPP launched an investigation in February 2023 following multiple complaints of fraud in an alleged investment scheme. They say a sergeant who has been with the police force for 18 years […]

TORONTO — A new report shows Canada’s downtown office vacancy rate marked its first, if slight, improvement since the start of the pandemic. The CBRE Group Inc. report shows the national downtown office vacancy rate dipped to 19.9 per cent in the first quarter after hitting a record high of 20 per cent in the […]

TORONTO — Strength in the energy and telecommunication sectors helped Canada’s main stock index rise in late-morning trading, while U.S. markets were mixed. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 72.79 points at 24,831.94. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 97.11 points at 41,681.01. The S&P 500 index was down 27.80 points […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s integrity commissioner has found that a lobbyist who used to work for Premier Doug Ford failed to comply with some rules while asking for a client’s land to be removed from the Greenbelt. The integrity commissioner has laid out several instances in which he says Nico Fidani-Diker broke lobbying rules, largely in […]

OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney promised Monday to get the federal government back into the business of home building, while Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives pitched a national energy corridor to fast-track approval of key infrastructure. The two rival party leaders touted the plans as national projects to stand up to the United States as it […]

Hundreds of thousands of people across Ontario were still without power on the third day of a spring storm, after freezing rain coated swaths of the province with thick layers of ice. An outage map from provincial utility Hydro One showed more than 430,000 homes and businesses remained without power Monday morning. The map also […]

OTTAWA — The second week of the federal election campaign is underway, with a fresh round of U.S. tariffs expected to soon reverberate on the hustings. Eyes are turning to Wednesday when U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to slap “reciprocal tariffs” on countries including Canada over various alleged trade practices. Liberal Leader Mark Carney […]