Move follows Britain’s order this week for 23 Russian diplomats to leave the U.K.

Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe fired two days before he planned to retire

Trump lauds firing of ex-top FBI official as 'great day'

Montreal police are spending another day searching backyards and going door to door in the search for a 10-year-old boy who has been missing for days.

Halton’s police chief is garnering praise from Hamilton for equipping his officers with naloxone despite the Ontario police watchdog’s insistence on investigating officers who administer the drug.

The FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility recommended that McCabe be dismissed for not being forthcoming about authorizing discussions with a reporter about a pending investigation.

A Campaign Research survey found 43 per cent of Ontario residents would vote for the Conservative party leader, despite Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath having high approval numbers.

Mercy Ships provides free surgical care to people without access in developing countries

Groups expressing concern about jobs funding rules await final decision

Answer to cities' parking woes could be found at fire hydrants: fire chief

Trump's possible China tariffs send opponents scrambling

North Korean minister meets again with Swedish counterpart

Canada sending peacekeepers to Mali; aviation task force there up to 12 months

— Investigators on Friday searched for bodies and sifted through the rubble of a new pedestrian bridge that collapsed Thursday afternoon.

— The gulf between Russia and Britain widened on Friday as they cranked up pressure over a nerve agent attack and a suspected murder in Britain that have deepened Western worries about alleged Russian meddling abroad.

38-year-old frequent offender argued he had ‘no comprehension of what happened’ day of attack, Susan Clairmont writes.

NDP leader says Canada should declare anti-Sikh violence in 1984 a genocide

— NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Canada should declare that anti-Sikh violence that took place in India more than three decades ago was a genocide.

— Former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown will not be eligible to run in the riding he was nominated in for the province’s June 7 election, the party’s provincial nominations committee said late Thursday.

Career criminal declared dangerous offender, will serve indeterminate sentence

Hamilton can expect a major transit cash influx of $372 million over the next decade under a new infrastructure spending agreement between the province and federal government.

OTTAWA — Mista Wasis recalls dreaming of the family he could barely remember after the government forced him from his community as a child and into a non-Indigenous home during the ’60s Scoop.

— Ontario’s premier is defending her decision to prorogue the legislature and deliver a throne speech next week, saying it’s the only way her government can lay out its priorities in the lead-up to the spring election.

For the second year in a row, the Hamilton public school board’s initiative to provide iPads to students in grades 4 to 12 had the least support among respondents to an online survey on six budget priorities.

Q: What do you do for a living?

Ontario’s office of the chief coroner is investigating the death of 70-year-old Margaret Black, who died nine days after being struck by a tow truck in downtown Dundas last month.

The Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas Progressive Conservative riding association could still hold a second nomination meeting.Ontario Tory Party President Jag Badwal stated in a message on the party’s website March 15 that the party’s provincial nom

— Protesters seeking to carry signs in an area being secured for U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence to participate in the South’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade, won a brisk free speech fight Friday as city officials in Savannah backed off prohibiting signs and posters at the event.

Drug testing proposal splits group helping Liberals on workplace policies

The city is eyeing a maximum building height of two storeys in older Ancaster neighbourhoods, as part of efforts to curtail so-called monster homes.

Society has role to play in trying to prevent domestic violence:experts

New online poll suggests Tory leader Doug Ford top pick for Ontario premier

Ben Levitt remains “100 per cent committed” to running for the Progressive Conservatives in Hamilton despite the provincial party’s decision to set aside his contentious nomination win.

— At least 80 civilians were killed in Syria in airstrikes by government jets and allied Russians on the besieged rebel enclave of eastern Ghouta, a monitoring group said.

OAKVILLE — GO Transit is adding new weekend morning and daily late-night train trips to its Lakeshore west and east lines starting April 7.

OAKVILLE — Four people have been charged in connection with a joint Halton-York police investigation into a series of break-ins.

Inmate wanted on Canada-wide warrant arrested in Sudbury, Ont.: police

Government says reduction in Phoenix pay backlog 'promising,' but may not last

— A Russian government hacking operation aimed at the U.S. power grid did not compromise operations at any of the nation’s commercial nuclear power plants, federal regulators and the nuclear industry said Friday.

Budget watchdog calls out Liberals for lack of details on infrastructure funds

Energy sector helps boost stocks in Toronto while loonie slips lower

Hamilton public school board trustees are being urged to pull investments out of fossil fuels as part of worldwide efforts to limit global warming to no more than 2 C above pre-industrial levels.

Survivors, supporters rally across Canada against proposed 60s Scoop settlement

Young man taken to the hospital, fire department says.

Good reporting can look like bad behaviour, writes Paul Berton

B.C., three northwest U.S. states join forces on trade, addiction, environment

Toronto neurosurgeon charged with killing his wife ordered to stand trial

Eastgate Square held a variety of free family-oriented events during March Break.

Massimigliano Carfagna gets 10 ½ years in prison

— Former South African president Jacob Zuma will face old charges of fraud, racketeering and money laundering, prosecutors announced, deepening the legal woes of a leader whose tenure was marked by scandals.