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Liberals win enough seats to regain official party status

The Liberals will secure enough seats to regain official party status after two terms in the single digits, but Leader Bonnie Crombie failed to win a seat in Mississauga East-Cooksville. The Liberals were leading or elected in 14 ridings late...

Feb 28, 2025 | Local

South Korean police summon Japanese woman for kissing BTS member without consent

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police said Friday they are summoning a Japanese woman for questioning over allegedly kissing Jin, a member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, without consent during a free hug event last year. A police...

Feb 28, 2025 | Local

Ontario election results across Toronto and the GTA

Residents across Toronto and the GTA went to the polls for the 2025 Ontario election to elect PCs to another majority government and Members of the Provincial Parliament (MPP). In the table below, find MPP incumbents and winners as they...

Feb 28, 2025 | Local

Shopify lists U.S. site on SEC filing for first time to ‘align’ itself with peers

Shopify Inc. has listed a U.S. address alongside its Canadian headquarters for the first time in an annual regulatory filing it made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The e-commerce software business names both its Lafayette Street hub in...

Feb 28, 2025 | Local

Police arrest suspect in more than a dozen armed bank robberies

Toronto police have arrested a suspect in more than a dozen bank and retail store robberies in Toronto, Guelph, Hamilton, Peel, Halton and Niagara Regions. Investigators say between February 8 and February 25, 2025, the same man allegedly robbed fourteen...

Feb 28, 2025 | Local

SIU says 17-year-old killed in shootout was attempting to lure police and kill them

A 17-year-old Aurora teen who was gunned down in a hail of bullets last October was attempting to lure police and kill them, according to a report issued Thursday by the province’s Special Investigations Unit. The police watchdog says York...

Feb 28, 2025 | Local

North Korea says it performed cruise missile tests, days after it vowed to respond to...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Friday it had test-fired strategic cruise missiles to demonstrate its nuclear counter-attack capability, days after it vowed to respond to what it called escalating U.S.-led hostilities since the start of the Trump...

Feb 28, 2025 | Local

Ousted Liberal leadership candidate Ruby Dhalla loses appeal

Former MP Ruby Dhalla has lost her appeal after being disqualified from the Liberal leadership race last week. Party national director Azam Ishmael said in a statement late Monday – just minutes before the party’s French-language debate was set to...

Feb 25, 2025 | Local

Liberal leadership debate: Candidates reveal how they would stand up to Donald Trump

How Canada should stand up to U.S. President Donald Trump’s many threats against the economy and sovereignty of its northern neighbour was a running theme of Monday night’s French-language Liberal leadership debate. Trump’s proposed tariffs on Canada – which he...

Feb 25, 2025 | Local

Questions linger about Carney’s French after ‘Hamas’ debate slip-up

A stumble by Mark Carney during Monday’s French-language Liberal party leadership race debate revived questions about the presumed frontrunner’s proficiency in French. During an exchange about the war in Gaza, Carney misspoke by saying all four Liberal candidates on stage...

Feb 25, 2025 | Local