Published by Patrick Crean Editions, the novel follows the saga of an 11-year-old boy who escapes slavery at a Barbados sugar plantation with the help of the owner’s kinder brother.

The suit argues that Whitaker’s appointment violates the constitution because he has not been confirmed by the Senate.

Coerced sterilization clearly breaches human-rights standards, says Romeo Saganash

Police officer critically injured in shooting attack

The six boys have been charged with assault, gang sexual assault and sexual assault with a weapon, Toronto police said at a Monday news conference.

After the Ford government last week announced budget cuts affecting Ontario’s 600,000 francophones, Legault was left walking a fine line between strengthening economic ties with his neighbour and standing up for the rights of a French-speaking minority.

Sixteen Democrats who’ve opposed Nancy Pelosi’s quest to become speaker released a letter Monday saying they will vote for “new leadership” when the House picks its leaders in January, underscoring a significant threat to her effort to lead her party’s House majority in the next Congress.

Two years after its official opening, Canal Park is finally set to get its waterfront boardwalk, the last piece in transforming the former Veldhuis Greenhouses property into a gateway into Dundas.

Stelco’s CEO has been saying the company’s share price should be a lot higher, but the steelmaker got a giant shot in the arm with investment company Fairfax buying $250 million in shares Monday.

An Ontario justice who raised flags over the $75 million the federal government agreed to pay the lawyers who successfully pursued the ’60s Scoop class action has approved the arrangement despite his misgivings.

“We need to get guns out of the hands of people who use them to commit crimes,” he says.

Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and communications director Bill Shine warned Acosta his credentials could be in jeopardy again if he violates rules on being allowed to ask one question only at news conferences.

Woman being evicted after city bylaw issues landlord order to comply

A Canadian Coast Guard vessel that was cut from its cradle at a Nova Scotia shipyard remained partially submerged Monday with diesel fuel in its tanks and hydraulic fluid on board.

Three suspects are being sought after they approached, in a car, two men walking in Westdale and sprayed them with a “noxious substance”

Morteza Jafarpour, who had a spectacular fall from grace as a once-respected community leader, was paroled more than four years ago after being sentenced to two years behind bars.

Police officer critically injured in shooting attack

The OPP laid 190 charges during its traffic enforcement and safety blitz on Highway 6 Wednesday. The Burlington OPP-led initiative targeted the “Big 4” causal factors: seatbelts, distracted driving, aggressive driving and impaired driving. Officers laid 28 speeding and 51 Highway Traffic Act charges, among others.

Mountain public school trustee Dawn Danko says she isn’t giving up on her bid for tighter rules on the use of board-issued iPad minis despite little apparent support from her colleagues.

Education minister says controversial resolution was put forward by Tanya Granic Allen was ‘to impact a convention that is a year from now’

Jamie Koe, Chris Schille, DJ Kidby and Olympic gold medallist Ryan Fry were kicked out of a bonspiel in Red Deer on Saturday for being drunk, breaking brooms, swearing and disrupting other players.

Study predicts monkey population boom in Florida park

The premier says the resolution came from the convention floor and he won’t allow it to move any further.

Apple has emphasized in recent weeks that it is unlike social media platforms, because its business model depends on selling hardware such as smartphones and tablets and not selling targeted advertisements based on user information.

A “system in the company” allowed a lack of transparency that made the wrongdoing possible, Nissan CEO says.

BuzzFeed has long positioned itself as the future of publishing — it practices the mysterious arts of digital media better than anyone. From the beginning, its ability to know, before anyone else, what sort of content would go viral delivered it a large audience and helped the company attract half a billion dollars in venture money and a steady stream of mostly positive media attention.

Fall economic update from Tories says Ontario’s finances are in a mess because of the actions of the previous Liberal government, writes Thomas Walkom.

Ahead of the controversial professor’s Stockholm stop, journalist Adam Svanell with Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet spoke to some of his devoted followers – and finds neither they, nor his critics, agree on who he is or what he’s saying.

Frank Klinger started playing the guitar at age six and began writing music and songs in his early teens.Now, at 55-years-of-age, he wants to share his love of music with the community.“This isn’t about making money, it’s about getting my musi

Hamilton singer-songwriter Terra Lightfoot is embarking on a rigorous tour schedule in the new year that includes a Feb. 7 date in Hamilton, joined by Canadian roots singers Lindi Ortega and Begonia.

Shabby Sunflower Studio is a place where customers can not only buy beautiful keepsakes, but also craft a few of their own.

A new fitness or yoga fitness studio could be coming to the Ancaster Crossing plaza at 1142 Wilson St. W., following the approval of a minor variance application.

Dundas’ University Plaza has unclear future as owner sells other secondary market properties

The new public elementary school being built at Summit Park in upper Stoney Creek will help relieve overcrowding in booming Binbrook by taking Grade 7 and 8 students from Bellmoore beginning next September.

Elevator in Chicago skyscraper fell 84 floors before rescue

FREDERICKSBURG, Texas - A group that organizes vintage fighter plane rides for veterans says a passenger who was killed when a World War II-era aircraft crashed in South Texas had been a WWII pilot.

Subway workers to stage strike in Romanian capital

An attempted carjacking in Mississauga Monday morning (Nov. 19) has left a driver injured, the third such incident in the city since Sunday night.

An attempted carjacking in Mississauga on Monday morning (Nov. 19) has left a driver injured, the third such incident in the city since Sunday night.

Haldimand County OPP say Concession 2 Walpole is closed between Sandusk and Haldimand Rd 55

Months before devastating wildfires caused havoc in California, firefighters from across Europe headed to Sweden as authorities there struggled to extinguish several massive blazes. Officials in Sweden, one of the continent's greenest countries, eventually got so desperate that they ordered an air force jet to drop a bomb in the middle of the wildfire's center to deprive the blaze of oxygen.

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Canada Post workers were continuing their rotating strikes today after rejecting the Crown corporation’s latest offer and asking that a mediator be appointed to help end the ongoing labour dispute.

Nissan Motor Co.’s high-flying chairman Carlos Ghosn is to be dismissed after the company said an internal investigation found he under-reported his income and engaged in other “significant misconduct.”

Peel Regional Police say 2 carjackings in Mississauga that occurred near Square One may be related.

Chickenpox has taken hold of a school in North Carolina where many families claim religious exemption from vaccines.

Survey of more than 1,800 Canadians found that while a majority of workers have experienced or witnessed bullying at work, many employers don’t take action to end it.

A majority of PC party delegates cast ballots for Brian Patterson at a weekend convention in Etobicoke.

A fatal shooting Sunday was the 90th homicide of the year in Toronto.