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Ontario Liberals to renew push for lower car insurance: Mayers An energized Liberal government with a strong mandate will mean lower car insurance costs for Ontario’s nine million drivers, says provincial finance minister Charles Sousa. The Mississauga South MPP is promising that as Queen’s...

Lower energy output dampens Canadian growth in April Lower oil and gas production caused Canada’s economic growth to come in lower than expected at 0.1 per cent in April, according to Statistics Canada data released on Monday, matching March’s rise but below the 0.2-per-cent forecast. Taken to...

Well that's one way to fabricate demand for expensively unnecessary jets. Putin gets payback for Canada's anti-Russia stance As Prime Minister Stephen Harper was pouring vitriol and sanctions on Russia for months over the Crimea and Ukraine crisis, he did not seem to have expected much of a...

hawt Olivia Chow asks: ‘Who do you trust with the public purse?’ Rob Ford says he wants voters to ask themselves this question on election day: “Who do you trust with your hard-earned tax dollars?” Olivia Chow asked on Sunday: “Who do you trust with the public purse?” Three of Chow’s...

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Kathleen Wynne says full-steam ahead with Ontario pension plan Ontario is forging ahead with its own provincial pension plan regardless of whether there is “a change of heart” — or government — in Ottawa, says Premier Kathleen Wynne. With Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s refusal to enhance...

Pair Keystone pipeline with green incentives: Trudeau FORT McMURRAY, ALTA. — Justin Trudeau says he would bolster Canada’s case for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline by introducing financial incentives to curb greenhouse-gas emissions in the oil and gas industry. Canada should establish a...

Councillor criticizes Waterfront Toronto for $12,000 umbrellas Waterfront Toronto spent $11,565 for each of the 36 pink umbrellas that dot Sugar Beach and another $529,800 for the lakeside park’s large candy-striped rocks – money spent without public scrutiny by an agency that is running out of...

LGBT Rights More Important Than Culture, Tradition, Says VP Joe Biden In a statement that inspired pro-LGBT communities across the globe, Vice President Joe Biden declared Tuesday that gay and lesbian rights should be given more importance than national cultures and social traditions...

Supreme Court expands land title rights in unanimous ruling The Supreme Court of Canada has given aboriginal groups a major victory, expanding their rights to claim possession of ancestral lands and control those lands permanently. “The right to control the land conferred by Aboriginal title...

Barack Obama becomes mocker-in-chief on climate change skeptics The sarcastic bear is loose, and he’s loving every minute of it. President Barack Obama is letting his inner Don Rickles run free, mocking climate deniers as the crowd who used to think the moon was made out of cheese or...

McIver vows to wean Alberta off reliance on oil and gas Tory leadership hopeful Ric McIver offered up his own blueprint Tuesday to sock away cash for Alberta’s future, but an economist who studies provincial finances said all of the candidates’ fiscal plans face difficulties without new revenue...

UK and Germany break solar power records Britain and Germany have broken records for generating solar electricity in the last few weeks, according to new industry figures. Germany generated over half its electricity demand from solar for the first time ever on 9 June, and the UK, basking in...

Climate change will cost the U.S. hundreds of billions, report warns Annual property losses from hurricanes and other coastal storms of $35 billion; a decline in crop yields of 14%, costing corn and wheat farmers tens of billions of dollars; heat wave-driven demand for electricity costing...

Wut? They don't have this already? Obama says US should offer paid maternity leave WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Monday that the United States should join the rest of the industrialized world and offer paid leave for mothers of newborns. "Many women can't even get a paid day...

Roy Moore's twisted history: Islam and Buddhism don't have First Amendment protection, chief justice says (commentary and live chat) Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore spoke from the pulpit, and make no mistake, it was a sermon. "Let's get real," he said. "Let's learn our history. Let's stop...

Driver, 60, caught 'using cell phone jammer to keep motorists around him off the phone' A vigilante motorist is facing a $48,000 fine for allegedly using an illegal cell phone signal jammer in his SUV to keep drivers around him off the phone. The Federal Communications Commission says that...

May breaks global temperature record Driven by exceptionally warm ocean waters, Earth smashed a record for heat in May and is likely to keep on breaking high temperature marks, experts say. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Monday said May's average temperature on Earth of...

Sounds like a familiar story, doesn't it? Michael Den Tandt: Trudeau’s success not driven by his celebrity — but by Harper and Mulcair’s mistakes Even before the Harper government gave its tacit, much-hedged, timorously voiced approval for the Northern Gateway pipeline project, it was clear...

Hydro One billing practices spark huge number of complaints to Ontario ombudsman TORONTO — Ontario’s watchdog says Hydro One’s billing practices have garnered an unprecedented number of complaints to his office. Ombudsman Andre Marin says so far, he’s received 7,900 complaints about the...