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Olivia Chow leads voter support in Toronto mayoral race: poll Olivia Chow appears to be widening her lead over incumbent Rob Ford and fellow candidate John Tory in the race for Toronto mayor, according to a new poll. The Forum Research poll, which surveyed 882 respondents, was conducted on...

Household debt overhang holding back Canada's economy (Reuters) - Canada's economy will grow only modestly over the next two years and underperform the United States as high household debt levels and a cooling housing market restrain consumer spending, a Reuters poll found. Economists lowered...

Canadian economy will lose billions to climate change: report A new report on the financial implications of climate change notes that while natural catastrophes are estimated to cost Canadians $21-$43 billion per year by 2050, popular economic measures like GDP fail to capture the escalation...

Occupy was right: capitalism has failed the world The École d'économie de Paris (the Paris School of Economics) is actually situated in the most un-Parisian part of the city. It is on the boulevard Jourdan in the lower end of the 14th arrondissement, bordered on one side by the Parc Montsouris...

Idiots. Tories secretly gave Canadian military OK to share info despite torture risk The Conservative government has secretly ordered the Canadian military to share information with allies even when there's a serious risk it could lead to torture. The Defence Department was making good...

Democrats tout ‘friend and ally’ Canada in urging Obama to decide Keystone XL pipeline’s fate by May 31 A group of 11 Senate Democrats, including five seeking re-election this year, urged President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline by May 31. “This process has been exhaustive in...

Supreme Court quashes Harper's tougher sentencing rules The Conservative government’s tough-on-crime agenda has suffered another major blow at the Supreme Court of Canada. The court blocked the government’s attempt to stop judges from routinely giving extra credit to offenders for time served...

How the U.S. pulled off the great Canadian privacy giveaway For the first time in Canadian history, our federal government is preparing to provide a foreign government with sensitive personal financial information about hundreds of thousands of Canadians. It is doing so to stave off threatened...

Climate change is good for you, says ultra-conservative Heartland Institute For those concerned about climate change, the ultra-conservative Heartland Institute offers up a calming solution: try thinking of yourself as a pea, instead of a human. Peas in a lab sprouted faster with extreme...

IMF: Canada's Economy At Risk From Debt, Housing Market "Downside risks to the outlook still dominate, including from weaker-than-expected exports resulting from competitive challenges, lower commodity prices and a more abrupt unwinding of domestic imbalances," it warns. "Indeed, despite the...

Patrick Brazeau arrested for assault, cocaine, threats A day before a trial date was to be set for his 2013 assault case, Patrick Brazeau was arrested Wednesday night for an alleged incident of domestic violence. The suspended Conservative senator is expected to faces new charges of assault...

Battle Plan for Climate Change: How to Cut Greenhouse Gases Trust in technology: That seems to be the underlying message of a coming report from the world's top panel on climate change. (Related: "Can Coal Ever Be Clean?") Scheduled for release on Sunday in Berlin, Germany, the new...

Tom Mulcair, Justin Trudeau hit back at Pierre Poilievre Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair say a government attack yesterday on the head of Elections Canada was unprovoked and partisan. Speaking separately after their parties' caucuses met on Wednesday morning, both...

Terrorism A former White House counterterrorism official prophesied that by the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the American economy would be shut down by chronic bombings of casinos, subways, and shopping malls, downings of airliners by shoulder-launched missiles, and acts of cataclysmic sabotage at...

The environmental advocacy group alleges some political parties use third parties for fundraising Greenpeace calls for Elections Canada probe of Ethical Oil Greenpeace Canada is asking Elections Canada to investigate whether the Ethical Oil Institute is colluding with the Conservative Party in...

Good move! Chow unveils plan for more after-school programs In line with her mantra to “put children and family at the heart of our city,” Toronto mayoral candidate Olivia Chow has announced she will expand after-school programs for boys and girls. “There are holes in our city’s...

Major gridlock expected as city outlines road reconstruction plan TORONTO – Get ready for a long commute. The harsh winter, the Pan Am Games, the Gardiner Expressway and a huge repair backlog will all combine to make the summer of 2014 a bad one for driving around Toronto. Councillor Denzil...

Over 100 scientists and economists call for rejection of Keystone XL Over 100 scientists and economists urged President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry to reject the Keystone XL tar sands in a letter today. The contested 1,897-km pipeline would have the capacity to transport up to...

Climate change will 'lead to battles for food', says head of World Bank Battles over water and food will erupt within the next five to 10 years as a result of climate change, the president of the World Bank said as he urged those campaigning against global warming to learn the lessons of how...

Immunization no more: Inside the mindset of parents who spurn vaccination Gloria Dignazio isn’t swayed by the heavy weight of scientific evidence that suggests vaccines have nothing to do with autism. After seeing her first daughter develop the condition in the wake of receiving an array of...