York Region

TORONTO — Units of DRI Healthcare Trust sank nearly 30 per cent after the trust removed its chief executive and suspended its chief financial officer as a result of an investigation of irregularities related to certain alleged consulting and other expenses. DRI says the board of trustees demanded and received the immediate resignation of Behzad […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index posted a gain Monday, helped by strength in financial stocks, while U.S. stock markets were mixed. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 67.10 points at 22,126.13. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 31.08 points at 39,344.79. The S&P 500 index was up 5.66 points at […]

OTTAWA — Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux suggests it’s up to Canadians to decide whether they believe the government’s proposal to create a new regulator against online harms amounts to bureaucracy, or a necessary enforcement tool. Last week Giroux issued a cost estimate for the government’s new online harms legislation would cost around $201 million […]

GUELPH, Ont. — The University of Guelph says it has issued a trespass notice to pro-Palestinian protesters who set up camp on school grounds more than a month ago. The university says in a written statement that it handed out the notices Monday morning after demonstrators ignored its request to dismantle the camp by Sunday […]

WATERLOO, Ont. — Pro-Palestinian protesters have dismantled their nearly two-month-old encampment at the University of Waterloo and the school says it is now ending legal action it had filed against the group. The university had launched a lawsuit against the participants of the encampment that was set up on May 13, alleging the demonstration had […]

TORONTO (AP) — The daughter of the late Nobel laureate Alice Munro has accused the author’s second husband, Gerard Fremlin, of sexual abuse, writing that her mother remained with him because she “loved him too much” to leave. Munro, who died in May at age 92, was one of the world’s most celebrated and beloved […]

OTTAWA — Health Minister Mark Holland says dentists and other oral-health providers no longer need to sign up with the government to provide care to patients who are covered under the national dental care plan. The change is part of the government’s latest bid to win over dentists who have been reluctant to join the […]

TORONTO — Units of DRI Healthcare Trust sank nearly 30 per cent after the trust removed its chief executive and suspended its chief financial officer as a result of an investigation of irregularities related to certain alleged consulting and other expenses. DRI says the board of trustees demanded and received the immediate resignation of Behzad […]

OTTAWA — The federal Fisheries Department has called an external review into the conduct of its officers who allegedly arrested and dumped two Indigenous men at a Nova Scotia gas station without shoes or phones. Two Mi’kmaq fishers from Cape Breton were arrested near Shelburne, N.S., on March 26, and the pair say they were […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index was in the red in late-morning trading, weighed down by losses in base metal stocks, while U.S. stock markets moved higher. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 19.26 points at 22,039.77. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 56.61 points at 39,432.48. The S&P 500 index […]