TORONTO ― Deciding on the fly whether to air in real time U.S. President Donald Trump’s baseless allegations of election fraud is a tricky dilemma that defies easy solutions, broadcast journalists and observers said on Friday. Differing approaches were apparent on Thursday, when some networks simply cut away from covering Trump’s invective from the White […]
Melanie Gardner moved to Canada to escape Donald Trump’s presidency, but even on the other side of the border she said the stress of the U.S. election is taking a physical toll. “I just went to the dentist this morning. I’ve been grinding my teeth so that I’m having vicious pain in my mouth,” she […]
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau affirmed his faith in the American people and their democratic institutions on Friday as the U.S. election results continued to trend in Democrat Joe Biden’s favour. Trudeau refused to be directly drawn in to responding to President Donald Trump’s complaints — without evidence — that the counting of ballots […]
TORONTO — Peel Region will be under the highest COVID-19 alert level short of a lockdown as Ontario shifts to a tiered and colour-coded system for managing pandemic measures, though the restrictions it will face fall short of what local health officials deemed necessary to curb rising case counts. The provincial government released a list […]
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon announced Friday that he is calling off a planned execution using the drug Propofol in the wake of threats from the European Union that the 27 country bloc will scrap exports of the drug altogether if it is used for lethal injection, the AP reports. Nixon is a fervent death penalty […]
Outrage and denunciations are following reports out of the UK which show that the British government has labeled the husband of journalist Glenn Greenwald a “terrorist” for allegedly possessing leaked NSA documents while passing through London’s Heathrow Airport earlier this year. In August, David Miranda was detained by security while on a layover between Germany […]
Canada’s three largest metro areas reported another hot month for housing in October, with sales up by double digits in the Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver areas, despite warnings from the experts that the market is bound to cool off in the coming months. Home sales in Greater Toronto were up by 25.1 per cent compared […]
TORONTO — A Toronto police officer convicted in the brutal assault of a young man was sentenced to nine months in jail on Thursday in a ruling the victim’s lawyer hailed as historic for its consideration of systemic violence toward the Black community. Ontario Superior Court Justice Joseph Di Luca said that although Const. Michael […]
TORONTO – The Ontario government’s first mid-pandemic budget will set aside billions of dollars for COVID-19-related health-care costs and slash taxes and hydro prices for businesses. “Ontario weathered the first wave and emerged in a strong position relative to jurisdictions around the world,” Finance Minister Rod Phillips wrote in his budget introduction. “Recognizing the sober […]
OTTAWA — As demand for flu shots appears to be up across the country, the Public Health Agency of Canada is working with suppliers to order more doses — a feat that could prove more difficult than it sounds. In a written statement, an official from the federal agency said production of flu vaccine is […]