Canada’s largest and oldest HIV service organization, AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT), will close in March after 42 years supporting those living with HIV.
Founded in 1983, the groundbreaking organization offered front-line services, peer and mental health support, and helmed advocacy and fundraising efforts to end HIV stigma and advance health care policy in Canada.
Media outlets will not be able to report on the mental-health history of the man accused in the Lapu-Lapu Day street festival attack before his eventual trial on 11 counts of second-degree murder and 31 counts of attempted murder, a judge has ruled.
On Thursday, B.C. Provincial Court Judge Reginald Harris dismissed an attempt by a media consortium, which includes The Globe and Mail, to lift a publication ban on details of this summer’s hearing into the mental fitness of Kai-Ji Adam Lo.
Michael Mallinson had never met Charlie Kirk, nor had he ever heard the name of the American right-wing commentator who was shot dead in broad daylight at a Utah college event on Wednesday.
But the retired Torontonian has done some research about him after his death.
Workers at Ontario colleges went on strike Thursday, one of two major labour disputes that have disrupted the first weeks of classes at Canadian postsecondary schools.
More than 10,000 support staff in the Ontario college system launched pickets at the province’s 24 institutions after negotiations with the College Employer Council broke down over worker demands related to job security and other issues.
An agreement between the Haida Nation and the federal and provincial governments has been given court approval, cementing the nation’s Aboriginal title to all one million hectares of Haida Gwaii, once known as the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Private landowners have been assured that there will be no changes to their ownership status, but the transition of governance over Crown-land tenures and parks on the archipelago off B.C.’s north coast is still being worked out.
At least five cutting-edge clinical trials for childhood cancer have been closed to new Canadian patients because of the Trump administration’s cuts to scientific funding and its directive that grants no longer be shared with foreign researchers.
Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children halted enrolment in three trials for incurable brain cancer last month after the U.S. National Cancer Institute decided not to renew funding for a consortium of pediatric brain-tumour scientists whose only Canadian site was at SickKids.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says the government will sign agreements with provinces and territories that have yet to ink deals for public coverage of some diabetes medications and supplies, as well as contraceptives.
Mr. Carney’s comments on Thursday in Edmonton, where he has been meeting with his caucus ahead of Parliament’s fall sitting, marked the first time that the Prime Minister has explicitly committed to additional pharmacare agreements.
Reducing emissions from Alberta’s oil sands, including progress on a massive carbon-capture project, will be a “necessary condition” to unlocking new pipelines to Canada’s coasts to access export markets, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday.
The Pathways Alliance carbon-capture initiative is a 400-kilometre-long pipeline that would transport carbon trapped at oil-sands facilities to an underground hub near Cold Lake, Alta., with the aim of reducing emissions by 22 megatonnes a year.
The global controversy over an Israel-affiliated team’s participation in the world cycling tour is coming to Canada this week as race organizers in Quebec City and Montreal grapple with possible disruption by pro-Palestinian activists amidst an outcry over the war in Gaza.
The Grand Prix Cycliste events in the two cities are bracing for protests against Israel-Premier Tech, a team with deep ties to both Canada and Israel, which has faced mounting opposition since the beginning of the conflict in October 2023.
The National Hockey League has cleared the way for the five members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team who were acquitted of sexual-assault charges to return to the NHL.
The league issued a statement Thursday that said Dillon Dubé, Cal Foote, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart and Michael McLeod will be eligible to sign new contracts “no sooner than October 15, 2025, and eligible to play in NHL games no sooner than December 1, 2025.”
A documentary about a retired Israeli general’s Oct. 7 rescue mission will hit theatres mere weeks after its Toronto premiere was met with protesters.
Representatives for the film say The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue is set to open Oct. 3 on 125 screens in Canada and the United States, including in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.
Beth Bilson, a leading academic scholar on labour and administrative law, the first woman to be appointed dean at the University of Saskatchewan’s law school and chair of an influential federal task force on pay equity, has died at age 79.
“Beth was the epitome of an excellent academic lawyer,” said Thomas Cromwell, a retired Supreme Court of Canada justice who worked closely with Ms. Bilson when she was editor of the Canadian Bar Review and he chaired the publication’s editorial board. The two first got to know each other as legal academics in the 1980s, when Mr. Cromwell taught law at Dalhousie University and Ms. Bilson was at the University of Saskatchewan.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said his party will propose a bill in Parliament to make it harder for people accused of certain crimes to get bail.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his party will introduce a bill this fall that would make it harder for people accused of certain crimes to get bail.
Poilievre says the proposal would create a new category of major offences that includes things like sexual assault, kidnapping, human trafficking, home invasion and firearms charges.
Canadian shoppers now have a chance to get their share of a $500-million settlement in a class-action lawsuit related to the alleged industry-wide price fixing of bread.
Strosberg Wingfield Sasso LLP and Orr Taylor LLP said Thursday the claims process is now open in the approved settlement involving Loblaw Cos. Ltd. L-T and its parent company George Weston Ltd. WN-T
Parents and members of the community left flowers and teddy bears in front of a daycare in Richmond Hill, Ont., the site of a crash that killed a toddler and injured six other kids. York Regional Police said a 70-year-old man was arrested at the scene and faces one count of dangerous driving causing death and one count of dangerous driving causing bodily harm.
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