City of Toronto staff recommend stopping transit-priority lanes at Bloor on Bathurst, Dufferin
City of Toronto staff are scaling back their initial plans for transit-priority lanes on Bathurst and Dufferin streets and are recommending ending both at Bloor Street West versus Eglinton Avenue West. The recommendation, contained in a report going to the...
Trump says 50 per cent tariff on copper imports to come into effect August 1
U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to impose the 50 per cent on copper imports on August 1 in hopes of boosting U.S. production of the crucial metal. Trump announced the tariff Wednesday on his Truth Social platform and...
Ontario teen charged with attempted murder, sex assault after child injured
A teen from eastern Ontario is accused of attempted murder and sex assault after a child was attacked last month. Ontario Provincial Police say they responded to a report of a missing child on June 24 in Quadeville, about 170...
Ex-MLSE boss Tim Leiweke indicted for allegedly rigging bidding process for Texas arena
Former Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) boss Tim Leiweke has been indicted by a U.S. grand jury for allegedly rigging the bidding process for an arena in Austin, Texas. Leiweke is co-founder and CEO of Oak View Group (OVG),...
Canadian pharmaceutical industry alarmed after Trump floats 200 per cent tariff
WASHINGTON — Canada likely isn’t the main target of U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 200 per cent tariff on pharmaceutical imports, an industry representative said Wednesday — but his plan could still put parts of the Canadian...
Ontario bakers look to heat up friendly competition with B.C. over Nanaimo bar record
In the kitchen of Northwest Fudge Factory in Levack, Ont., a group of five children spent the better part of a day last month mixing hundreds of kilograms of butter, sugar, chocolate and graham crackers before carefully spreading distinct layers...
Texas inspectors approved Camp Mystic’s disaster plan 2 days before deadly flood, records show
HUNT, Texas (AP) — Texas inspectors signed off on Camp Mystic’s emergency planning just two days before catastrophic flooding killed more than two dozen people at the all-girls Christian summer camp, most of them children. The Department of State Health...
Man, 31, dies after car rear-ends tractor trailer on Hwy. 407 in Brampton
A 31-year-old Toronto man has died of his injuries after a car rear-ended a tractor trailer on Highway 407 in Brampton Monday morning. Provincial police were notified of a crash just before 5 a.m. on the eastbound portion of the...
Youth cyclist injured in collision with vehicle in Vaughan
A youth has been taken to hospital after colliding with a vehicle while on a bicycle in Vaughan. York police were called to Dufferin Street and Beverly Glen Boulevard just before 3 p.m. The extent of the youth’s injuries is...
Hudson’s Bay lender fighting retailer’s Ruby Liu deal, seeking ‘super monitor’: docs
TORONTO — One of Hudson’s Bay’s biggest lenders says the department store chain has handled its liquidation so badly that a court should end a buzzy but fraught lease transaction the retailer signed with a B.C. billionaire and subject the...
