Financial watchdog says controls to mitigate sales risk at banks 'insufficient'

Fisheries officials unable to help dolphins trapped by ice in N.L. harbour

Feds urged to hold giants like Facebook more accountable for misuse of data

— The Syrian government sent reinforcements to a southern neighbourhood in Damascus after losing it to Islamic State militants after days of fighting that killed dozens of soldiers and pro-government militiamen, a monitoring group said.

In next week’s provincial budget, Finance Minister Charles Sousa will announce the prescription drug plan available to those 24 and under will be extended.

— Generators are still humming. Candles are still flickering. Homes are still being repaired.

— Denuclearization is not on the agenda as North Korean envoys meet with their South Korean colleagues and former U.S. diplomats in Finland, the Nordic country’s foreign minister said Tuesday.

— U.S. President Donald Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin to congratulate him on his re-election Tuesday and the leaders discussed arranging a possible bilateral meeting, the Kremlin and Trump said.

N.S. surplus boosted by marijuana sales, as province plans modest spending hikes

— Slovakia’s president on Tuesday rejected a proposal for a new government amid a political crisis triggered by the killing of a journalist and his fiancée.

The Sackville Hill Seniors Recreation Centre will be closed for annual maintenance March 26 to March 29.

Ontario Tory leader Doug Ford to put business assets in trust

Five tweens and teens have been charged with threatening schools on social media, Ontario’s provincial police said Tuesday as they reported a “spike” in online threats following a deadly school shooting in Florida last month.

The office complex will have one access from Highway 8 and there is expected to be about 60 parking spaces available.

Ontario police lay charges in five investigations into social media threats

RBC launches data sharing portal for app developers in step towards open banking

Feds urged to hold giants like Facebook more accountable for misuse of data

Liberals to propose law enhancing background checks on some gun buyers

Autocrats have a talent for producing impressive election results. In the last elections they ever ran in, Indonesian dictator Suharto achieved 75 per cent of the vote; Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had 89 per cent; Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu mastered an impressive 98 per cent. My friend Boris Vishnevsky, a leading opposition legislator in St. Petersburg, likes to point out that Ceausescu still had a 99 per cent approval rating in December 1989, just one week before his trial (and subsequent execution). As all these victors found out in the end, the results of manipulated "elections" in authoritarian systems are a poor indicator of the actual state of public opinion.

Kremlin shrugs off White House refusal to congratulate Putin

Renee Zellweger has transformed herself into the legendary Judy Garland.

Google launches news initiative to support media, combat fake news

ORLANDO, Fla. United Airlines is the target of a new lawsuit in Orlando that accuses the company's staff of taking a wheelchair away from a man who fell afterward.

Laura and Josh Ledbetter know they have only a few years left, at the most, until their 5-year-old son, Grayson, dies.

"I'm delighted to see the firefighters take this on," said Hamilton Mayor Fred Eisenberger. "Hopefully, it will save some lives."

Sheriff: 1 student dead, 2 wounded in Maryland high school

Financial watchdog says controls to mitigate sales risk at banks 'insufficient'

Unable to stand, and suffering from a string of infections in his advanced age, the world's last male northern white rhino was euthanized Monday by a veterinary team in Kenya that had fought for years to save him and his dwindling species. Only two now remain — his daughter, Najin, and granddaughter, Fatu — leaving in vitro fertilization from preserved sperm as the last tool against extinction.

Active member of community named British Columbia's new lieutenant-governor

Energy sector helps boost Toronto stock market, loonie slips lower

A package bomb that authorities believe is linked to the recent string of Austin bombings exploded early Tuesday inside of a FedEx distribution centre near San Antonio, leaving one worker with minor injuries.

If you're not a regular Airbnb user, it may take trial and error to interpret the language in the listings.

Corrections exec ignored concerns of director's abusive behaviour: Watchdog

Russian diplomats head home from Britain after spy attack

Austin carnage now random; an arrest doesn't appear close

Toronto woman, 27, slain in murder-suicide: police

Heavy fire and smoke coming from seventh floor unit at 430 Cumberland Ave.

Judy Foote to be named lieutenant-governor of Newfoundland and Labrador: source

When you consider the cold-blooded way in which he massacred 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland — shooting some of them again and again, even once they were down — it's hard not to look at Nikolas Cruz and wish Florida still had Old Sparky so we could say: Fry him.

Ontario police lay charges in five investigations into social media threats

Great Mills High School in St. Mary's County is on lockdown after a shooting there Tuesday morning, the school district confirmed.

Ex-French president Sarkozy held on Gadhafi claims

Iraq recovers bodies of 38 Indians abducted by IS in 2014

World's last male northern white rhino, Sudan, dies

UK seeking warrant to access Cambridge Analytica servers

Police divers to resume river search for missing Montreal boy

Unanimous House of Commons motion blames Russia for British nerve gas attack

Saskatchewan farmer acquitted in death of Indigenous man in court on gun charges

Nova Scotia to unveil balanced budget amid calls for more health spending

Political staffers split on whether harassment legislation will work: survey