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Former premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals watered down the legislation, which was implemented by Dalton McGuinty in 2015. Since then, the auditor general has complained that her office is no longer empowered to look at taxpayer-funded ads for accuracy, tone or context.
The city manager will assess the province’s plans and report back to council in June.
Talk to Peterson’s daughter Mikhaila, Vinay Menon writes, who once bested her dad in a debate over going to cosmetics school.
The number of households seeking social housing in Toronto had passed 100,000 by the end of 2018, according to the City of Toronto.
Kenney may have promised to take Alberta back to the glory days but given oil and natural gas’s shaky future his chances of getting it there, are slim.
City staff believe the changes to the noise bylaw will make it more objective and enforceable, while also balancing the concerns of residents and businesses.
Busy Nile Rodgers figures not everyone at Monday’s Cher concert is going to know who Chic are. But they all know the songs.
Those charges include seven laid since the city’s first legal cannabis store opened on April 1, a city spokesperson said.
John Hart took top honours in the Toronto Star Short Story Contest with a story called “Walk With Me,” about a young man’s relationship with his beloved grandmother. Lena Scholman of Hamilton placed second and Nicholas Anthony James Pullen of Ottawa placed third.
In a report released midway through a council meeting Tuesday, city and TTC staff laid out all the things they still don’t know about the Ontario government’s $28.5-billion transit proposal a week after Premier Doug Ford unveiled it.
Verdict means jurors concluded that Galeeb Abau-Jabeen was driving in a way that was a “marked and substantial departure” from the standard of care of a reasonable person when the crash occurred on Nov. 28, 2016.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is seeking a judicial review of legal agreements pertaining to Sidewalk Labs’ smart city project.
University says it will push ahead with expansion plans despite ‘devastating’ news of funding cut.
Premier Doug Ford’s government has fired the opening salvo in its advertising blitz against Ottawa’s controversial new carbon-pricing scheme.
So far, Ontarians have little reason to trust that the Ford government is truly committed to child welfare, Tanya Talaga writes.
Justin Trudeau won’t have a new principal secretary before this fall’s federal election after losing his closest political adviser to the SNC-Lavalin controversy, Susan Delacourt writes.
Premier Doug Ford says that surplus notices to teachers are typical at this time of year, “and then they all again end up getting hired.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must delay appointing a new justice to the Supreme Court until conducting an inquiry into the "damaging, politically motivated leaks" to the media about the 2017 nomination process, says Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer.
Canada’s automobile dealers say zero-emission vehicle sales have stalled since the Liberal government announced plans for a federal purchasing incentive last month that did not include a start date.
The beloved landmark building would have burned to the ground had firefighters not moved as rapidly as they did to put out the inferno, a French official said Wednesday.
The move to begin enforcing a provision of a 1996 law known as the Helms-Burton Act reverses two decades of policy and will create new tensions with allies whose companies do business there.
Using a newly created Twitter account called “GeorgiaSisters,” the sisters claim they are in danger and will be killed if they are forcibly returned to Saudi Arabia.
The moratorium ruling says police in the province can no longer stop people based on discrimination, including race.
Smith made headlines earlier in April for comparing homosexuality to pedophilia in a 2013 sermon.
On the National Day of Action on the Overdose Crisis, and almost three years since B.C. declared drug-related overdoses a public health emergency, Vancouver advocates say their ranks have been decimated by contaminated drugs. ‘It’s hard to organize or think strategically when you’re always doing triage, planning a memorial,’ says a member of the B.C. Association of People on Methadone.
Doug Ford may be a lousy leader, but his plans to liberalize Ontario’s alcohol laws demonstrate that even lousy leaders can sometimes make sensible decisions, Emma Teitel writes.
In giving the Muslims of Quebec an ultimatum of having to choose between their faith and their livelihood, the government of Quebec is engineering a mass exodus of Muslims from the province.
Canadians and politicians are finally understanding the impact that burning fossil fuels is having on our planet and on the demise of humanity.
Social media platform Wattpad to act as liaison between writers and entertainment giant Sony Pictures Television
Ynon Kreiz, the new chief executive of Mattel Inc., launched a film studio and struck new deals to develop movies based on Barbie, Hot Wheels and other cherished toy brands.
StatsCan reports year-over-year, consumers paid 15.7% more in March for fresh vegetables and 8.1% more on borrowing costs
Last year’s 4/20 festival attracted about 40,000 people to Sunset Beach, defying Park Board regulations requiring permits for large events.
The Drager DrugTest 5000 remains the only technology approved by Ottawa to test a driver’s saliva for concentration of THC, but the manager of drug and alcohol detection in Canada for Drager, said the saliva test was never designed to test for impairment.
Seven Leaf is the first and only cannabis company in Canada wholly owned by Indigenous people and licensed by the federal health agency, and its first batch of cannabis will be ready for sale around the summertime.
The Kyle Lowry-Kawhi Leonard partnership is the foundational piece that has never felt truly at home. In Tuesday night’s win over the Magic, it did, Bruce Arthur writes.
The Leafs hope to take a stranglehold on their series with Boston. Toronto is up two games to one. And readers are getting excited.
Potential tying run thrown out at home to end nailbiter at Target Field.
The sweep indicates that perhaps there really is something predictive, and negative, about enjoying so much success before the chase for the game’s top prize really begins.
While many of their peers are living at their parents’ for longer, these four roommates split rents — and in one case a room — to be close to work, school and invest in their lives.
In the world of Vancouver’s housing, where Chinese investors are decamping and low-ball offers are the norm, students can find themselves living in the lap of luxury
While the new rules had the desired effect of improving overall credit quality, it has also led more borrowers into the unregulated sector for financing, resulting in a significant market-share increase for alternative lenders, says deputy chief economist Benjamin Tal.
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.’
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.
DFO aims to reduce chinook mortality to 5 per cent. Current mortality rates are closer to 20 per cent, according to conservationists.
The 2017 national inventory report shows the total amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions produced in Canada hit 716 million tonnes, and the bulk of the increase came from oil and gas production.
The research team provided 10 patients’ glioblastoma stem cell cultures for an experiment using powerful genetic technology called CRISPR-Cas 9 to analyze all 20,000 genes from each of the patients’ samples.
For performer Sky Gilbert, trigger warnings are ‘dangerous for art.’ The Coal Mine Theatre, on the other hand, plans to change what it stages to avoid triggering audiences, writes Karen Fricker.
It’s only now, away from being consumed by the darkness of the series, that Ben McKenzie is able to fully appreciate the full quality of the show.
Jeanne Lamon and Christina Mahler return to the period-instrument ensemble on April 25 before leaving Toronto in June.
A workplace crush can be fun, but not when it drags on too long. Get past your self-defeating attitude.
Dogs are born to see motion, while sacrificing the ability to see detail
The building blocks of healthy friendships start with conversations around empathy, a child development specialist says.
While we love our gardens, parts of them can actually be dangerous to our four-legged friends.
Japanese born-and-based designer’s new motivation is making clothes that are actually — gasp — wearable.
