Mayor Rob Ford’s latest scandal has gone Hollywood. The salacious story of Ford’s alleged crack cocaine use dominated the news cycle Friday across Canada as media sought answers to the newest controversy to rock Toronto’s Mayor this year. International media organizations from the U.S. to England to Italy to New Zealand, even the Hollywood Reporter, [...]
A wayward drinks cart could cost Qatar Airways a steep damages bill with a passenger alleging serious physical and psychological trauma after being struck by a trolley nearly two years ago. Stuff.co.nz – Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the [...]
Which transit plan will get the green light in Peel: the north-south LRT favoured by Metrolinx and Mississauga, or an east-west line Brampton councillors are pushing for? On Wednesday, Brampton councillors unanimously supported a list of priority Big Move transit projects that departs significantly from top projects favoured by Metrolinx and Mississauga. The Brampton plan [...]
The city’s police board and the force have settled with a Toronto man who alleges in a human rights complaint that he was racially profiled when he was pulled over in Parkdale in 2009. Clem Marshall, a former teacher with the Toronto public board, says an officer justified the stop by telling him he didn’t [...]
The city’s police board and the force have settled with a Toronto man who alleges in a human rights complaint that he was racially profiled when he was pulled over in Parkdale in 2009. Clem Marshall, a former teacher with the Toronto public board, says an officer justified the stop by telling him he didn’t [...]
Couples strolling along the waterfront promenade, passing beneath lampposts and leaning over the railing to look out over the quietly lapping waves. At least that was the vision for an Ontario Riviera in Burlington when city planners set out to revitalize the waterfront in 2002. More than 10 years later — a decade littered with [...]
At 17, Christina Kyritsis is a runner. She’s so fast, she’s been a national 800-metre champion and won Ontario gold twice, and she’s heading to Boston College this fall on a sweet track scholarship. But the lanky Grade 12 athlete almost missed her last high school qualifier Monday because of an extracurricular boycott that’s supposed [...]
The Associated Press LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer. The Oscar-winning actress and partner to Brad Pitt made the announcement in the form of an op-ed she authored for Tuesday’s New York [...]
Poised to strike at the end of the week, LCBO employees are framing their concerns about “part-time, disposable jobs” as a prime example of the precarious employment eroding the welfare of workers across the province. The main sticking point in contract talks with the Crown corporation, the quality of jobs for the LCBO’s nearly 7,000 [...]
BOSTON—Tyler Bozak and Clarke MacArthur scored as the Toronto Maple Leafs stayed alive in the playoffs, hanging on to defeat the Boston Bruins 2-1 Friday night. Trailing three games to one, the hard-skating Leafs probed the Bruins from all angles to quiet the yellow-and-black crowd of 17,565 — the Bruins’ 156th consecutive sellout. But down [...]
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