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TORONTO — Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says city crews are shifting their efforts from plowing streets to removing snow after a record-breaking winter storm hit the city on Sunday. Chow says snow is being removed near hospitals today and crews will move on to residential streets on Wednesday, in the aftermath of the storm that […]

TORONTO — Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson says Marineland’s plan to move Canada’s last remaining captive whales and dolphins to several parks in the United States is a solid one. Thompson conditionally approved on Monday the shuttered Niagara Falls, Ont., theme park’s application to export its 30 belugas and four dolphins south of the border. The […]

TORONTO — A Toronto man who evaded police for nearly a year is one of two people now charged with murder in the December death of an elderly woman. Police say officers executed a pair of search warrants this weekend and arrested two 38-year-old Toronto men who are both charged with first-degree murder. One of […]

TORONTO — Every winter, David Lepofsky uses the same strategy to navigate frigid temperatures in Toronto: walking as fast as possible to get to his destination. But he said it’s far too dangerous to use that technique this winter, which has brought extended periods of bone-chilling cold weather and a record snowfall on Sunday that […]

TORONTO — A long-delayed light rail transit line in Toronto could be opening in less than two weeks. Speaking to reporters at Queen’s Park, Premier Doug Ford said the goal is to have the Eglinton Crosstown LRT up and running on Feb. 8. It’s been 15 years since construction began on the line, and six […]

TORONTO — Former cabinet minister, scientist and champion for safe sport Kirsty Duncan has died at the age of 59. Duncan had made public her multiple operations, radiation and chemotherapy to treat her cancer since she was diagnosed in 2023. Born on Oct. 31, 1966, Duncan was elected five times as the Liberal MP for […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s top court has ordered a new assessment for a man who sexually abused children to determine whether he has the “good character” needed to become a lawyer. The Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled that a previous decision by the Law Society Tribunal that found the man — identified only as […]

OTTAWA — After a globe-hopping mission to secure new trade deals and foreign investment, Prime Minister Mark Carney was back in Ottawa Monday as Parliament resumed — but not for very long. Carney visited an Ottawa grocery store Monday morning where he announced a 25 per cent hike to the GST credit to help lower-income […]

Marineland’s belugas have a received a reprieve from death row after the federal government conditionally approved a plan to export the last remaining captive whales in Canada to the United States. Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson met Monday with officials from Marineland, the shuttered theme park in Niagara Falls, Ont., to talk about its proposed plan […]

TORONTO — Toronto’s biggest single-day snowstorm on record is expected to be a major test of the city’s revamped clearing operation. City officials say 600 plows have fanned out across Toronto and are starting the second round of snow clearing on local roads. Mayor Olivia Chow says expressways are now on their fourth or fifth […]