The Ontario Premier promises to make “unnecessary delays” in building new homes in the province a thing of the past Doug Ford announced a $ 45 million fund to cut bureaucracy and speed up the process of managing and approving applications to build new homes. … Read More

Students across Ontario are on their way back to the classroom on Wednesday after a long break from personal learning. An Omicron-filled increase in COVID-19 cases forced students into online learning for what in some ways turned into a two-week extension of the Christmas holidays. … Read More

Toronto Star has won a court-approved access to police investigative documents in the now four-year-old Barry and Honey Sherman murder case, and the information is released in chronological order, not all at once. Last week we reported that in the summer of 2021 the hope … Read More

As soon as Lorna Yates had hung up her shovel on Monday, she realized she was facing a cool Catch-22. She had worked hard to dig the family car out of the snow bank in front of her house. But while she had freed her … Read More

EDMONTON — The swift suspension of Alberta’s Justice Minister Kaycee Madu, in the wake of reports that he called Edmonton’s police chief after receiving a distracted driving fine, is attracting concern from some of the province’s black communities. CBC News on Monday published a story … Read More

For six hours, Peter Harvey, his son Lucas and their dog Oliver were stuck in their truck heading west on Highway 401 Monday night. “We had seen vehicles that had just been abandoned, a lot of transportation, medium-sized trucks, cars … and there was no … Read More

It will take the rest of the week to dig Toronto completely out during one of the biggest snowstorms of recent times, senior officials said Tuesday. “The work is going on 24 hours a day until the job is done,” said Mayor John Tory, speaking … Read More

Rodger Kotanko had just returned to his rural home and workshop in Simcoe, Ont., A short drive west of Port Dover, near Lake Erie, after doing some shopping with his wife, Jessie. She had just passed a driving test and needed a little encouragement. The … Read More

First-year students at Western University are appalled by the school’s decision to let the seniors return to personal learning before them. While Western senior students will be allowed to return to campus in two weeks, first-year students will continue with distance learning until February 28th. … Read More

It was the kind of snowy day that required the highest boots and the softest mittens. A shovel-three times kind of day. Stay home and do not risk the trip outside before the snow stops during the day. The type that Toronto, in short, does … Read More