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TORONTO — Ontario residents will be able to smoke recreational cannabis wherever the smoking of tobacco is permitted, the Progressive Conservative government said Wednesday, loosening rules established by the previous Liberal regime. The government will also not put a cap on pot shops when it starts licensing and regulating the province’s private cannabis retail marketplace, […]

Wayne Rooney was arrested in America for "public swearing and intoxication" last month and ordered to pay a $25 fine, court records have revealed. The DC United star and former England captain was apprehended by Washington Airport Authority police officers on December 16th in Loudoun County, Virginia. Public swearing and intoxication is catagorised as a minor […]

WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg city councillor has been charged with sexual assaulting a woman six months ago. Russ Wyatt, 48, was arrested Tuesday after lab results came back, and has been released pending a future court date, a city police spokesman said. Const. Rob Carver would not reveal details of the allegations on Wednesday, other […]

Ontario will face electricity shortages in the coming years, as the loss of supply from a planned shutdown of a major nuclear power plant is made worse by the provincial government’s cancellation of renewable energy projects. In a recent forecast, the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) — the Crown corporation that runs the province’s electric […]

In the end, the British Islamic State fighter decided it was not worth paying with his life. Cornered in a nine-mile-square patch of uninhabitable earth in eastern Syria, the jihadist surrendered to the UK-allied Syrian Democratic Forces rather than battle to the death. Like the hundreds of mostly foreign Islamic State of Iraq and the […]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s demand that the federal government pay Toronto $72 million to cover housing costs for asylum seekers hasn’t gone over well in Ottawa. Federal Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen’s office insists Ford’s government needs to stop “playing politics with asylum seekers” and take an active role in helping to find a […]

OTTAWA — The federal government will not appeal the court decision that tore up cabinet approval for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and is appointing former Supreme Court justice Frank Iacobucci to oversee a new round of consultations with Indigenous communities. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government will follow the “blueprint” laid out by […]

China has released panoramic photos of the far side of the moon after a Chinese spacecraft made the world’s first successful landing there earlier this month. The China National Space Administration has published 360-degree panoramic photos taken by a camera installed atop the Chang’e 4 probe, showing the gray, pock-marked surface of the moon. The […]

OTTAWA — Grim scenarios of collateral damage for Canadian consumers and businesses are emerging in response to escalating the U.S.-China trade war. The Trump administration has taken aim at China by imposing a 25 per cent tariff on goods worth U.S. $34 billion, but the worst is still on the horizon. The U.S. has announced […]

The commander of the US Navy’s longest serving submarine has demoted for hiring prostitutes in the Philippines. Captain Travis Zettel commanded the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Bremerton. According to an investigation by the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service the captain told a fellow sailor he had "ordered ten girls to arrive at the hotel" while […]