TORONTO — Ontario’s public elementary schools are expected to be closed twice a week starting next week, as teachers announce escalating job action with no signs of movement in contract talks.

The last city team members will ‘wind down’ the LRT project and be off the job by the end of March.

A lawyer representing convicted Quebec City mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette says the killer was not motivated by deep-seated racist beliefs.

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors and the FBI have sought to interview Prince Andrew about Jeffrey Epstein, but he has provided “zero cooperation,” the U.S. attorney in Manhattan said Monday.

Local price at pump hits 96.4 cents per litre Jan. 26, even lower in some locations

No one was injured in the Sunday night fire

Erin Hill says building self-confidence and being comfortable with yourself are critical aspects of being successful in both fashion and the beauty/fashion business.

Giuseppe (Pino) Gregoraci, 51, was found dead in his cell last week, according to a report in the Italian newspaper il Quotidiano del Sud.

In a memo to members sent Monday morning, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario said it will hold a one-day strike in all boards where its members work on Feb. 6 if no deal is reached with the provincial government by the end of the month.

Karen Cumming and Patricia Milne used their own experience with their aging mother to help others navigate the often choppy waters of long-term care for the very elderly in Ontario.

He will replace David Cheney, who is stepping down and returning to Bedrock Industries.

A unique culinary destination in Stoney Creek known for its tasty perogies and cabbage rolls ceased operations in 2019.

The Hamilton Bulldogs answer the call against the Peterborough Petes in front of an enthusiastic crowd saluting those who put their lives on the line.

The annual Burlington Winter Beer Festival was held Saturday at the Holiday Inn

OPP say vehicle was boxed in near Fifty Road

Xi Huang and her 10-month-old baby are in the middle of a Chinese lockdown as the coronavirus spreads in the country. They booked a flight back to Canada and were instead met with a lockdown.

Books are still big business in Ontario with the print version overwhelming the most preferred format compared to the digital alternatives of ebooks and audiobooks.

A man is dead and his father is charged with murder in Waterloo Region’s first homicide of 2020.

“The ones who didn’t survive this, they can’t understand, no,” the energetic woman said

Many lost parents and grandparents in Auschwitz or other Nazi death camps, but today were being joined in their journey back by children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren.

Cassidy Armstrong found out a day or two after having surgery for what she thought was a rare, terminal cancer that the cyst was created by a rare tapeworm.

In the standoff between the unions and the province, experts say this labour dispute could drag on

One of the tragic consequences of the opioid crisis is that heavy users can develop endocarditis, an infection that damages heart valves.

Toronto police search for man accused of tampering with food in store

Report: Bolton says Trump tied Ukraine funds to Biden probe

Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam stressed that the risk of contracting a novel form of coronavirus remains low despite the fact that the country has now documented its first case.

Report: Bolton says Trump tied Ukraine funds to Biden probe

A new viral illness being watched with a wary eye around the globe accelerated its spread in China on Sunday with 56 deaths so far, while the U.S. Consulate in the city at the epicentre announced it will evacuate its personnel and some private citizens aboard a charter flight.

Librarians honour books by Luiselli and Higginbotham

Three people are missing after two barge towing vessels collided Sunday on the Mississippi River in an accident that also may have released toxic vapour into the air, the Coast Guard said.

Hundreds of anti-government protesters flooded the streets of Iraq’s capital and southern provinces on Sunday, defying a powerful Iraqi religious leader who recently withdrew his support from the popular movement.

Nearly three years after the massacre that claimed six lives at the Quebec City mosque, the length of the sentence imposed on the man convicted of the crimes will be debated in the province’s highest court Monday.

The centrepiece of the planned events, which remain int he preliminary stages, is a concert at FirstOntario Centre

A Quebec provincial police search-and-rescue team retrieved the bodies of two more French snowmobilers who plunged into the water last Tuesday in the province’s Lac-Saint-Jean region.

The regional Métis presidents of Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan are calling for reform of the Métis National Council, raising serious concerns about “dysfunction” and about a lack of transparency on the national body’s finances and administration.

The death toll caused by record rainfall in southeastern Brazil jumped to 53 Sunday and officials expressed alarm about continuing storms.

The minority Liberals made another pitch Sunday for cross-partisan co-operation on a key priority for the government in the upcoming sitting of the House of Commons: passing the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade deal.

Several hundred feminist activists warmed up with chants Saturday next to a monument to murdered Mexican women before filling a street in the capital and dousing female police officers with red paint.

Shoreline erosion and flooding in low-lying areas remain high across the Great Lakes as winter months bring large storms and winds across the basin.

The job action is part of a rotating series of strikes by the unions representing elementary, high school and Catholic teachers across the province.

Officials from Libya’s two rival governments said fighting erupted Sunday as the country’s east-based forces advanced toward the strategic western city of Misrata, further eroding a crumbling ceasefire agreement brokered earlier this month.

Anti-Semitic acts increased in France last year by 27 per cent, acts against Muslims inched higher, while anti-Christian acts remained stable but highest of all, France’s interior minister said Sunday, denouncing the situation as intolerable.

Philippine authorities on Sunday lowered the alert level at Taal Volcano, two weeks after it began spewing ash, steam and rocks, a move that will allow many of the more than 376,000 displaced villagers to return home.

Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam stressed that the risk of contracting a novel form of coronavirus remains low despite the fact that the country has now documented its first case.

Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam stressed that the risk of contracting a novel form of coronavirus remains low despite the fact that the country has now documented its first case.

Full of flair and a fascination with food

Illicit drugs, replica firearms seized from Larry Crescent home

Charging for a parking spot would “punish the drivers” when the government isn’t offering adequate transit for people to get to the stations, says one commuter.

A 50-year-old man who recently returned from Wuhan, China, is being held in isolation at Sunnybrook hospital, health officials said Saturday, stressing that the risk to the public remains low.

Massive increases to projects around King and Queen streets pits higher buildings and density against older neighbourhood characteristics.