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TORONTO — Fines for more than 100 parking offences in Toronto are increasing today, an initiative the city says is aimed at reducing congestion and promoting safer roads. The city says it raised the fines for 123 offences to help curb illegal parking, stopping and standing. It says increasing parking fines can reduce congestion by […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say they have arrested 10 people and laid more than 100 charges in a wide-reaching SIM swap scam. Investigators say more than 1,500 cellular accounts throughout Canada were compromised, resulting in more than $1 million in combined losses to victims, telecom companies and financial institutions. Det. David Coffey from the Toronto […]

HAMILTON — Davis Alexander will make his first CFL start Friday night when the Montreal Alouettes visit the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Alexander was listed atop Montreal’s quarterback depth chart Thursday, ahead of veteran Caleb Evans and first-year player James Morgan. The Portland State product replaced Evans in last week’s 20-16 win over Saskatchewan, completing 15-of-18 passes […]

OTTAWA — Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld fell short of an apology today after instigating a fracas that led two witnesses to storm out of a parliamentary committee hearing. Vandenbeld only says that she deeply regrets the “distress that this meeting caused the witnesses” on Wednesday. The MP had steered the rare summer meeting of the […]

TORONTO — When Dani Reiss took over his family’s business, Canada Goose Holdings Inc., in 2001, it had a reputation for clothing made for those needing to brave the coldest of colds. More than two decades later, the Toronto-based company has evolved into a luxury powerhouse selling everything from sneakers to windwear. Next on Reiss’s […]

KIRKFIELD, Ont. — Police have charged a man with murder in the case of the missing Markham, Ont., woman whose remains have been found in central Ontario. York Regional Police say the coroner has identified the remains found in Kirkfield earlier this week as those of Ying Zhang. Police say Zhang was last seen on […]

OSHAWA, Ont. — Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones says a new hospital will be built and operational within 10 years in Whitby, Ont. The province has given Lakeridge Health $12 million in grants as it works on a masterplan for the Durham region, east of Toronto, for several health-care projects. Lakeridge plans to add 300 […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index wiped out its gains from the day before in late-morning trading Thursday, declining 1.6 per cent with most major sectors down, while U.S. markets also fell. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 366.30 points at 22,744.51. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 473.45 points at […]

BCE Inc. boosted its profits despite a dip in revenue last quarter as the telecoms giant began to feel the financial effect of thousands of job cuts from earlier this year. Earnings attributable to shareholders jumped 63 per cent year-over-year to $537 million in the company’s second quarter. The higher profits resulted from lower expenses, […]

OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget officer estimates the Liberals’ increase to the capital gains inclusion rate will bring in $17.4 billion in revenue over five years. That’s two billion dollars less than the federal government projected in its spring budget. The Liberal government proposed making two-thirds rather than one-half of capital gains — the profit […]