The Associated PressJake Coyle LOS ANGELES–Against all odds, love won out at the 90th Academy Awards last night. Guillermo del Toro’s lavish, full-hearted monster romance, “The Shape of Water,” swam away with best picture at an Oscar ceremony flooded by a sense of a change for a movie business confronting […]
Canada
The Canadian PressLee Berthiaume OTTAWA–The Canadian Forces is scrambling for answers after one of its military helicopters dropped an inflatable life raft that smashed a hole in the roof of a home in Miami. The Griffon search-and-rescue helicopter was on a training exercise in Florida yesterday and returning to a […]
The Canadian PressJoanna Smith OTTAWA–The Liberal government has given Status of Women Canada a major role to play in its feminist agenda. And now that the federal agency is set to grow into a full-size department, it also could be changing its name. “It’s a possibility,” Status of Women minister […]
The Canadian PressShawn Jeffords OTTAWA–The Ontario Progressive Conservatives’ efforts to leave behind weeks of unprecedented chaos took a hit yesterday as candidates vying to replace ousted leader Patrick Brown painted a picture of a toxic party culture rife with allegations of corruption, bullying, and electoral fraud. With a spring election […]
The Canadian PressPeter Goffin A man whose mother, brother, and grandmother died in what the Ontario provincial police is calling a triple murder-suicide said yesterday that his loved ones were killed by a neighbour who had been “stalking” his parent. Thomas Theoret said his mother, Ulla Theoret, 55, brother, Paul […]
The Canadian PressShawn Jeffords TORONTO–Patrick Brown’s quest to lead Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives ended yesterday with the Barrie, Ont. politician saying the leadership race had taken a toll on his family and distracted from the party’s ultimate goal of defeating the Liberals in the spring election. Brown’s short-lived leadership campaign, which […]
The Canadian PressLee Berthiaume OTTAWA–The military currently is wrestling with the implications of marijuana legalization, Canada’s top general says, including time restrictions on using the drug before going on duty. “We’re going to try to be smart about it,” chief of defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance said yesterday. “But in […]
The Canadian PressAdam Burns The OPP say they will “slowly begin scaling back” their search for a missing three-year-old boy who was swept into a swollen river in southwestern Ontario. In a release yesterday evening, police said they will be “continually reassessing” the conditions along the stretch of the Grand […]
The Canadian PressStephanie Levitz OTTAWA–Conservative leader Andrew Scheer says if his party forms government in 2019, it will follow Donald Trump’s lead and recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Scheer’s declaration comes in the form of a pledge posted to the Conservative party website designed to gather signatures from […]
The Canadian PressAndy Blatchford OTTAWA–Today’s federal budget will establish a national advisory group with former Ontario health minister Eric Hoskins at the helm that will work towards setting up a Canada-wide pharmacare plan, sources say. Hoskins himself dropped a major clue about the no-longer-so-secret plan yesterday when he abruptly resigned […]
The Canadian PressSalmaan Farooqui RYERSON TOWNSHIP, Ont.–A man killed three members of the same family–two women and one man–at their central Ontario home before taking his own life, police said yesterday. The OPP said the incident, which is being investigated as a triple murder-suicide, took place in Ryerson Township, Ont., […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–With no fix in sight for the troubled Phoenix pay system, the opposition New Democrats are calling on the federal government to compensate and formally apologize to workers who are struggling with pay problems. The demands coincide with the second anniversary this week of the launch of […]
