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Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives have broken a promise to increase Toronto’s share of the gas tax, says Mayor Tory.
Finance minister’s record $163.4-billion budget, which spends $4.9 billion more than the final Liberal fiscal blueprint announced last March, includes a new “childhood access and relief from expenses” tax credit and formalizes the first stage of a $28.5-billion Greater Toronto Area transit expansion announced Wednesday.
In its first budget, the Ford government has opted for the politically palatable path of claiming we can have everything: tax cuts, better services and (eventually) balanced books.
Drinkers will enjoy extended hours to imbibe, but lower income post-secondary students will no longer be eligible for free tuition.
Chris Murray says TTC planners have “tremendous expertise” in building new lines, adding giving control of the TTC to Metrolinx, with its lower capacity GO Transit network, is akin to “the tail wagging the dog.”
Rich Taylor seemed to be an average guy. A family, an Oakville home, a teaching job in Hamilton. Maybe a few oddities, but murder? Rich was charged months after a fire at his boyhood home that killed his mother and stepdad. Part 2 of 2.
Police are still looking for a male suspect after Carrington was stabbed in the Commerce Court section of the PATH, near King St. W and Bay St.
House of Commons Speaker Geoff Regan said Philpott’s parliamentary privileges were not violated when Trudeau decided last week she would no longer be allowed to sit as a Liberal MP.
The court’s decision means the Ontario Ministry of Health must comply with a 2016 order from the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario to release physician-identified billing data to the Star.
Memories of working at one of Toronto’s perpetually struggling but culturally important theatres, which celebrates its 50th birthday.
“We want Canada to be united behind the goal of an ethical AI,” says renowned computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, who helped organize Montreal’s ethical AI framework.
A partner at Toronto’s Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP, Schabas is a noted constitutional scholar and also a long-time Toronto Star lawyer.
Rose Passarelli, 38, has been charged after a lengthy investigation by Halton Region police into the Forget-Me-Not Family Fun Fair, which took place in Milton in 2013 and 2014 after the death of 2-year-old Maximus Huyskens.
Police say that two groups of people encountered each other and began shooting at one another Tuesday. When one of the two groups fled the scene, they crashed head-on into another vehicle which was not involved.
Toronto police responded to a call at 10:30 a.m. to an apartment building at 248 Simcoe St., near Dundas St., Const. David Hopkinson said.
Shane Thomas, 28, was gunned down outside a Mississauga Valley Blvd. apartment and his mother fears there won’t be justice in his death.
Independent MP Jane Philpott told the House of Commons that the Parliament of Canada Act says MPs can’t be kicked out of their party caucuses without a vote.
Experts measure the depth of the Liberals’ self-inflicted wounds.
The Conservative leader has released a letter he says he received on March 31 from Trudeau’s lawyer, Julian Porter, threatening a libel suit.
The department concluded that effects of neonicotinoids on bees don’t warrant a full ban, but further restrictions have been proposed to protect aquatic insects.
With an eye on “efficiencies,” the provincial government will also launch a review of workers’ compensation system.
Unlike current deduction, which provides more tax relief to higher-income families, the new tax credit would benefit low- to moderate-income families the most, budget documents say.
‘We have taken great care to build a sustainable education plan where no teacher is being fired, despite what our opponents often claim,’ says Finance Minister Vic Fedeli.
Budget delivers 30 per cent funding cut to legal aid in the province.
Child-care tax credit, advertised “happy hour” alcohol specials and electronic vehicle insurance are part of the new budget.
Trump made 102 false claims in all last week, making it the 11th-most-dishonest week out of 116 so far. He is now up to 4,857 false claims for his first 808 days, an average of 6.0 per day.
Assange hasn’t left the embassy since August 2012 for fear that if he steps off Ecuador’s diplomatic soil he will be arrested and extradited to the U.S. for publishing thousands of classified military and diplomatic cables through WikiLeaks.
Tens of thousands of Sudanese marched toward the centre of the capital Khartoum on Thursday, cheering, singing and dancing in celebration as two senior officials said the military had forced longtime autocratic President Omar al-Bashir to step down after 30 years in power.
Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to brief Parliament Thursday on the results of the emergency EU summit that ended in the early hours with the bloc agreeing an extension to the country’s departure until Oct. 31.
The town is on trial for allegedly endangering the piping plovers that nest on the beach. The case pits conservation efforts that saw the birds return to Ontario against town leaders who say ‘The majority of people don’t want more dunes, they want more beach!’
While only 65 med grads are without a placement compared to 115 last year, students and schools call on provinces to open up more positions
Every major party in Alberta has a plan related to the carbon tax. But the broader issue of climate change has been largely absent from this election.
Some people, mostly men, are tickled by the news that a woman who takes suggestive selfies thinks she has what it takes to practise law. But being modest is not a prerequisite to attaining knowledge or success, writes Emma Teitel.
The popular and unapologetic psychologist and bestselling author has courted controversy and developed followers for his strong opinions but by posing with a man wearing a “Proud ISLAMAPHOBE” T-shirt, Jordan Peterson has gone too far.
Finance minister Bill Morneau is “optimistic about our banking sector,” saying it’s well-capitalized, not overexposed to credit risk and the broader economy is doing well
YouTube doesn’t require content providers to identify themselves, and many don’t provide clues beyond the country where they are located, making it almost impossible to find out who is behind a channel.
British envoy says negotiators on both sides have been meeting regularly to sketch out broad strokes of deal once UK exits European Union
Based on their latest quarterly numbers, the two biggest cannabis companies by revenue are Canada’s Canopy Growth Corp. and Aurora Cannabis Inc. The next four operate in the U.S., and American companies now make up six of the top 10.
A new report from Arcview Market Research says Albertans spent about $289 million on legal cannabis, predicts that will rise to $1 billion by 2024.
A couple dozen eager buyers stood in line in Yorkville to make the first purchases at Ameri, a small store in the shadows of high-rise condominium towers.
‘Playing simple means you trust your abilities to come out,’ goaltender Andersen says.
Trading DeMar DeRozan and Jonas Valanciunas brought in players with track records of post-season success. While Lowry’s game might be declining, he still has enough in the tank to think big with this cast, Dave Feschuk writes.
Toronto bench boss learned plenty while working with Tampa Bay’s Kevin Cash.
The Bucks and Raptors should roll. The Sixers are the team most likely to be upset.
The Bathurst St. condo is selling for $730,000. “Before it’s sold I will be having a whiskey in his writing room just to connect with him somehow,” says listing agent.
The industry group recommends eliminating pre-emptive offers to ensure fairness among property buyers.
Cancelled projects are taking a toll on consumers and the building industry. But can developers be punished for killing projects?
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.’
Canada’s Revenue Agency has released its first figures, saying it has assessed $14.9 million in tax and fines from audits into Canadians in the Panama Papers,
Independent pharmacies say a change is necessary if Ford government decides to allow pharmacy chains to sell their own in-house prescription drugs.
While the Shermans lay dead in the basement pool room of their Toronto home a lone man went in and out of their house three times, according to an account of security camera footage seized by Toronto police.
Move follows Star investigation that revealed textured implants have been linked to a form of breast cancer.
29-year-old Katherine Bouman, a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, created an algorithm that assembled the one-of-a-kind picture.
Research shows that gamers with disabilities found acceptance, inclusion and income opportunities by sharing their gameplay online and interacting with digital audiences.
David Saint-Jacques said the roughly six-and-a-half hour spacewalk was physically and psychologically gruelling but said he was so full of adrenaline when he returned inside the space station he had trouble sleeping that night.
Twitter data reveal the most popular episodes of all time, the most tweeted about characters and even the dates that set the Twitterverse aflutter.
Long-delayed concert film is glorious documentary remembrance of the power and glory of the Queen of Soul, who died last year.
Eva Husson talks about the good fortune, research and more needed to make Iraqi female-fighters film Girls of the Sun happen.
He wants to have a united position with my wife, but disagrees about not sharing this information
During times of turmoil, women tend to react to stress not with the “flight or fight” response typical among men, but instead engage in oxytocin-releasing behaviour that makes and sustains friendship.
The failure of Sears alone left a yawning 15 million square feet of empty footprint, following in the sad footsteps of Eaton’s
Marc Jacobs Beauty’s Velvet Primer Epic Lash Primer and Velvet Noir Major Volume Mascara gives full, pigmented lashes and doesn’t take longer than your average mascara application.
Here are the best products to groom, shape and fill in your eyebrows. Plus, the savvy tricky Zendaya, Shay Mitchell and Kim K all use.
