Lightspeed Commerce Inc. LSPD-T has agreed to pay $11-million to settle a class-action lawsuit in Quebec that alleged the company misrepresented its financial performance.
The proposed settlement agreement reached in June does not include any admission of liability by the company which denied the allegations of any wrongdoing.
Toronto Metropolitan University’s new medical school officially opens its Brampton campus Wednesday. The school is trumpeting the opening as the first new medical school in the Greater Toronto Area in more than a century. It will be located about an hour’s drive northwest of the downtown Toronto campus in the former Brampton Civic Centre, which has been renovated to include classrooms, labs, offices and student spaces for the incoming class of 94 MD students.
TMU president Mohamed Lachemi spoke to The Globe and Mail about the significance of the school’s opening and other issues affecting the university sector.
TMU President Mohamed Lachemi poses for a photograph at the Student Learning Centre in Toronto, Friday April 19, 2024. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
Good morning. Companies want employees back at their desks, but one powerful Canadian institution has yet to fully return in-person – more on that below, along with the Taliban’s appeal for international aid and the new editor of American Vogue. But first:
Lawyers for attorneys-general across the country want to appear in person before the justices of the Supreme Court of Canada when they make their arguments at a coming landmark hearing on Quebec’s secularism law and the Charter’s notwithstanding clause.
Mastering It is a summer series to introduce you to Canadians who have sought to rise above being simply good at their chosen endeavour – and who, by perfecting their skill, strive to become the best.
The northern lights will be lighting up the night skies across much of Canada, with a high probability of aurora activity on Sept. 2 and 3, a forecast from U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts. Here is how to capture the colourful display.
Quebec Premier François Legault told a public inquiry on Tuesday that he knew nothing about the $500-million cost overrun tied to digitization efforts at the province’s auto-insurance board until itbecame public knowledge in February.
Mr. Legault’s appearance before the Gallant commission into mismanagement and alleged cover-ups at the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec was the culmination of months of speculation about how much the Premier knew, and when, about a scandal that has already claimed one of his cabinet ministers.
The province’s embattled leader, facing plummeting poll numbers as he approaches seven years in office, said that details of mounting problems and ballooning costs within the SAAQclic project should have reached his desk, but didn’t.
Quebec Premier François Legault is photographed on a screen while appearing before the Gallant Commission, in Montreal on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
Susan Duong was standing behind the counter, stacking containers of chicken fried rice, hot off the wok and ready to eat.
She looked out the window at Riverdale Collegiate – the large high school directly across the street from her little takeout restaurant – and checked her watch. 11:36 a.m. The lunch bell was about to ring. It was time to open the doors. Yummy House was once again open for business.
British Columbia’s core public service union has launched strike action, hoping to force a labour-friendly but debt-swamped government to more than double its wage offer in contract talks.
A segment of the B.C. General Employees’ Union’s 34,000 public sector workers walked off the job on Tuesday, and union president Paul Finch promised to escalate job action if the provincial government doesn’t return to the bargaining table with a better offer.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says she spoke today with the Canadian judge facing American sanctions for her work at an international tribunal, without condemning Washington’s decision.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio last month announced sanctions on International Criminal Court judges including Kimberly Prost for her work on a case involving American troops in Afghanistan.
Erin McLeod, the oldest player in the Northern Super League, has announced her retirement in the wake of a season-ending foot injury.
The 42-year-old goalkeeper, the first-ever signing by Halifax Tides FC, has been sidelined since June. She played in six games for Halifax (3-11-3) during the NSL’s inaugural campaign.
A mayor near Newfoundland and Labrador’s capital city said his town of about 27,000 people would likely run out of water by Tuesday evening.
Darrin Bent said officials noticed earlier in the day that the water flow was decreasing to Conception Bay South, on the outskirts of St. John’s. They soon found a main pipe was leaking and the town’s water reserves were running out, he said.
Three weeks after the Long Lake wildfire in western Nova Scotia forced evacuations and eventually destroyed 20 homes, fire officials say some evacuation orders will be lifted.
They say that of the almost 500 orders imposed on individual residences since Aug. 13, residents living at 360 civic addresses will be allowed to return home on Wednesday.
If there was a fire, a flood, kids in need of skates or a hungry family in Montreal, Sid Stevens could be counted on to organize help.
For seven decades, his name was synonymous with Sun Youth, the community organization he founded with his friend Earl De La Perralle when they were both barely into puberty.
The Alberta government is pausing its controversial order for the removal of books deemed sexually explicit from school libraries, a retreat that Premier Danielle Smith vowed would be short-lived as the province continues to push policies around sexuality and gender into the classroom.
As of this month, new amendments to the Education Act dictate that ministerial approval is required before learning resources related to gender identity, sexual orientation or human sexuality are presented in schools.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford reacted angrily to news that spirits maker Diageo will close its Crown Royal bottling plant in Amherstburg, Ont., early next year, pouring out a bottle at a press conference and encouraging others to dump the whisky as well.
As generative artificial intelligence tools become more readily accessible than ever, parents and educators are struggling to navigate its use in classrooms as the new school year begins.
There’s the worry that secondary and postsecondary students could use AI to cheat on assignments, potentially generating false sources or entirely made-up essays. But others say AI is a helpful tool to enhance learning, if used properly.
Alberta’s education minister is directing school boards to pause a government order to remove books with explicit sexual content from libraries.
Demetrios Nicolaides, in an e-mail to school divisions and officials Tuesday, said they should pause any development or distribution of lists of books that are to be removed, “including removing materials containing depictions of explicit sexual content.”
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is reacting angrily to news of the closure of a plant that bottles Crown Royal, pouring out a bottle at a press conference and encouraging others to dump the whisky as well.
Spirits maker Diageo announced last week that it will cease operations at its bottling facility in Amherstburg, Ont., early next year, as it shifts some bottling volume to the United States.