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A charity has become the proud owner of a licensed rooming house near King St. W, scooped from Toronto’s white hot real estate market with help from $1.5 million in city funds.
Liberation75, to be launched on Thursday, will bring together Holocaust survivors, descendants and educators in Toronto next spring.
One month ago, Doug Ford sent dozens of tweets urging people to “fill your gas tank before the federal carbon tax” comes into effect. Martin Regg Cohn is here to do the math on those claims.
As one of the new Law Society of Ontario board members puts it, she and her like-minded colleagues are opposed to the regulator’s apparent “ever-expanding mission to socially engineer the profession.”
If the past is any indication, a rocky start does not always herald an unhappy future. After he became Quebec’s premier, Lucien Bouchard got along famously with Ontario’s Mike Harris, Chantal Hébert writes.
Journalism is a light. It can be hard to look at, but its glare holds systems and people accountable, Irene Gentle writes.
One Peel long-term care home transformed its dementia unit with a radical pilot progam. The simple approach threatens to upend the status quo.
Ontario’s fundamental change to its justice system vastly expands the pool of potential jurors to better reflect economic and racial diversity. This follows a 2018 Star/Ryerson School of Journalism investigation into racially imbalanced juries.
Thousands of Ontarians who have turned to temporary employment agencies to find jobs that often come with low pay and little training for sometimes dangerous work.
Air Canada and WestJet are flying the Boeing 737 Max aircraft exempt from regulatory standards meant to limit passenger injuries in the event of an accident, the Star has learned.
As the anniversary of Toronto's worst mass killing approaches, many of the people who helped that afternoon say they're grappling with trauma.
World News Day, an annual event hosted by the Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF), offers an opportunity for reporters and the public to celebrate the value of fact-based journalism in an age of growing misinformation and the proliferation of so-called “fake news.”
Since food delivery couriers are usually classified as independent contractors, they are largely excluded from employment laws that provide basic protections and the ability to form a union.
Harbord Village Residents’ Association pushing forth pre-existing, though currently unfunded, city objective to convert area into a public green space.
Peel Regional Police attended a call for a pedestrian struck in the area of Sorrento Dr. and Elia Ave. near Hurontario St. and Highway 403.
Richard “Rick” Turner, wanted for manslaughter, is described as 5’9”, with a stocky build and has contacts in Toronto, Oshawa, Ottawa and Sault St. Marie, police say.
A leader of the group trying to block Sidewalk Labs’ Quayside project told the Star’s editorial board the Google affiliate is too large and shouldn’t be involved in the development of the waterfront.
A reader says the waterfall, a defining feature of Ivan Forrest Gardens, has been dry for two years, writes Jack Lakey.
Police were called to a townhouse near John Garland Blvd. and Humber College Blvd. around 1 p.m. following reports of a shooting.
British Columbia’s attorney general said Wednesday that the province is gearing up for a legal fight after Alberta Premier Jason Kenney dangles using Bill 12, the Preserving Canada’s Economic Prosperity Act.
In a letter to Attorney General Caroline Mulroney and Energy Minister Greg Rickford, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association is urging the provincial government to revisit a decal debacle that could see gas stations fined up to $10,000 a day for non-compliance.
By proclaiming into law Alberta’s infamous “turn off the taps” legislation against B.C., Jason Kenney has escalated tensions with the neighbouring province, sparked what could become an interprovincial trade war and undermined Alberta’s legal position in that fight, writes Graham Thomson.
Layoffs continue at front-line behavioural therapy service providers as uncertainty continues
The proposal is part of draft regulations published Wednesday that outline which projects will be subject to review under the hotly contested Bill C-69.
Wednesday’s announcement came the same day that retired general Andrew Leslie, one of the party’s high-profile candidates in 2015, revealed that he would not seek re-election after just one term.
Unable to run or hide, 21-year-old Riley Howell charged the gunman at UNC Charlotte, who had already fired several rounds, and pinned him down until police officers arrived.
The dramatic events began early Tuesday when Guaidó released a three-minute video in which he called on civilians and others in the armed forces to join a final push to topple President Nicolas Maduro.
In Brazoria, a coastal county south of Houston of about 350,000 people, the bee slaughter has captivated residents and mystified fire officials and deputies.
As the Democrat-controlled House tries to pry open the financial records of Trump and his businesses, lawmakers are finding themselves up against the same familiar tactics meant to halt their work.
A one-bedroom apartment with no oven could be yours for $2,530 a month — and $1,000 off the first month’s rent.
Justice Minister Mark Furey has called for a halt on street checks, but it’s only temporary. Now he’s tasked a small group with advising him on the next steps, which are meant to abolish racial discrimination from the practice.
Every year, the Albany River rises and the swift-moving inland water and ice floes force the 2,500 residents to flee their homes and evacuate to Ontario cities hundreds of kilometres away, Tanya Talaga writes.
Vinay Menon has a few more worthy targets for improving our 9 to 5 happiness. What about stinky lunches or fidgeting or spoilers?
A Toronto MPP wants to protect cyclists from ‘dooring’ by changing how we open our car doors, and the Ford government should back it.
Toronto human rights lawyer Anthony Morgan writes about how important — and hard — it is for his family to connect with his brother in a rural Ontario prison. ‘If I don’t pay,’ says his mom, he’s ‘just there thinking we don’t care about him.’
Banks see program as start of a more secure Canadian identity system in a world where technology makes is easier for criminals to steal personal data
Perhaps it was only a matter of time before software was used to fire people. After all, it already screens resumes, recommends job applicants, schedules shifts and assigns projects.
The plan more than doubles the Advanced Payments Program loan limit for all farmers, while quintupling the amount available to canola growers in particular.
More than six months after Trudeau’s government legalized recreational pot in Canada, supply still “doesn’t line up,” Finance Minister Victor Fedeli said.
The Ontario government is losing out on more than $200 million in cannabis revenue at a time when it is making significant cuts to essential social services.
Hilary Black’s transition to a big corporation hasn’t gone down well with some other activists, but the chief advocacy officer at Canopy Growth Corp. sees it as the best way to take her fight to the global stage.
Commissioner trots out stuck-in-the-past stance to committee of MPs on Parliament Hill.
After years of looking across the court at LeBron James, Toronto has its own force.
Nurse won’t feel any pressure to make changes since he’s probably gone over them in his head again and again.
Tyler Seguin, the top-line centre who had Benn and Radulov on his side, instead started with Jason Dickinson and Mats Zuccarello.
Thousands of rental units being filled with tourists instead of Torontonians amid growth of short-term rental market.
The buyers argued that their purchase agreement in the Liberty Developments project was unlawful. It’s a case one real estate lawyer says sets a precedent that will discourage other buyers.
The twin factors of never-ending demand and limited supply are driving high prices for housing, writes Dave Wilkes.
Police expecting ‘high volume’ of information in a week, but have been stymied by at least one individual who refuses to be interviewed, Detective Constable Dennis Yim told court Wednesday.
An unlicensed weed shop, the Lamborghini-driving cop who co-owned it and the “misconduct” that has gone unpunished. Inside the case that prompted Durham police to call in an outside force.
Insiders say the incident in Alberta is an example of how pressure and lobbying from industry and economic interests are trumping science and strong oversight, putting public health and safety at risk.
Faith Goldy, the Canadian Nationalist Front, Wolves of Odin, and Canadian Infidels were all banned Monday by Facebook but barely a day later reporters found 12 pages, groups, and Instagram accounts using similar names and posting similar content.
Toronto’s vaccination coverage was among the lowest in the province last school year. To prevent a measles outbreak, it’s ‘nowhere near the level we need for herd immunity.’
Behind the organic apples, bags of rice and cans of cherry pie filling are hundreds of thousands of farmers, plant breeders and others in agriculture who are scrambling to keep up with climate change.
A custom-made drone delivered a kidney to a Maryland woman who had waited eight years for a life-saving transplant.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will now consider whether to make the explorer touch down near the Ryugu crater to obtain a sample. Studying rocks exposed at the surface of the crater could help explain the history of the solar system and asteroids.
Mike & Molly started changing the conversation in 2011, but other projects, like Insatiable, have set it back, writes Amber Dowling.
Ma-Anne Dionisio tells Carly Maga it’s hard and emotionally draining to play someone like Diana Goodman in Next to Normal.
Thoroughly conventional animated film is an inoffensive 87-minute advertisement for the dolls.
To understand the complexities of this dish, it’s important to look at how it’s made, its relatively short but storied history and how its global popularity was inadvertently boosted by the end of the Vietnam War 44 years ago this week.
Is a muffin just a cupcake in disguise? Clear up that confusion with these dessert-worthy Red Velvet Cupcakes that have no place on the breakfast table, and the aptly named Sweet Potato Breakfast Muffins for the health-minded.
The more you accept belittling treatment, the more you’ll lose your self-confidence, writes Ellie.
It is always dangerous for a European luxury brand to parachute into a continent with a colonial history, especially these days when the discussion around cultural appropriation and fashion’s malapropisms is loud
Use common sense and wash when your hair feels dirty, not too often or too little, experts advise.
