York Region

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales fell 2.1 per cent to $69.6 billion in June, as sales for the transportation equipment, chemical product and primary metal subsectors moved lower. Overall, the agency says sales were down in 17 of the 21 subsectors. Sales in the transportation equipment subsector dropped 2.9 per cent to $11.0 […]

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales fell 2.1 per cent to $69.6 billion in June, as sales for the transportation equipment, chemical product and primary metal subsectors moved lower. Overall, the agency says sales were down in 17 of the 21 subsectors. Sales in the transportation equipment subsector dropped 2.9 per cent to $11.0 […]

TORONTO — If you’ve noticed kids’ conversations sound a little different this back-to-school season, you’re not alone. Words like “skibidi,” “sigma” and “gyatt” now pepper tweens’ sentences, and “Ohio” is more than just a U.S. state: it’s a state of being. The issue came up at 11-year-old Dashiell Chinn’s summer camp, where he said his […]

TORONTO — If you’ve noticed kids’ conversations sound a little different this back-to-school season, you’re not alone. Words like “skibidi,” “sigma” and “gyatt” now pepper tweens’ sentences, and “Ohio” is more than just a U.S. state: it’s a state of being. The issue came up at 11-year-old Dashiell Chinn’s summer camp, where he said his […]

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in July climbed 16 per cent compared with June. The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts in Canada for July was 279,509 units, up from 241,643 in June. The increase came as the annual pace […]

OTTAWA — The Canada Border Services Agency plans to implement an app that uses facial recognition technology to keep track of people who have been ordered to be deported from the country. The mobile reporting app would use biometrics to confirm a person’s identity and record their location data when they use the app to […]

INNISFIL, Ont. — Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after two 19-year-olds were shot by officers in Innisfil, with one of them dying. The Special Investigations Unit says officers were called to a residence Thursday afternoon about a family dispute. The agency says when officers arrived, there was an interaction involving the two men outside. It […]

A coroner’s inquest jury looking into the death of an Ontario First Nations woman has begun deliberating its findings and recommendations after hearing closing arguments in the case Thursday. Ruthann Quequish died on April 1, 2017 from ketoacidosis, a complication associated with diabetes, at her home in Kingfisher Lake First Nation after going to the […]

TORONTO — Marineland has been ordered to pay nearly $85,000 in fines and restitution after it was found guilty under Ontario’s animal cruelty laws of three charges related to its care of three black bears. The amount, which was jointly proposed by lawyers for the Crown and Marineland, includes a $15,000 fine for each of […]

OTTAWA — The $18.4 million CBC/Radio-Canada awarded in bonuses to its employees this year is shocking, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said. He also said bonuses at the public broadcaster aren’t justified because a government-owned corporation doesn’t face competition like in the private sector. “The juicy bonuses given under the pretext that without them we […]