MS, drug costs, isotopes to dominate health meeting
The health ministers meet in St. John's this week. There are numerous issues up for discussion, but one that’s not formally on the agenda is expected to generate a good deal of attention.
View ArticleOttawa extends deadline for matching donations for Pakistan
The federal government announced on Sunday a three-week extension of its pledge to match all private donations to registered charities to bolster aid efforts in flood-ravaged Pakistan.
View ArticleTurkish government gets referendum victory
Turkey’s government won a referendum on Sunday over constitutional reforms that critics say will undermine the judiciary and pose a threat to the Muslim nation’s secularism.
View ArticleHurricane Igor becomes 'major' storm faster than expected
Hurricane Igor strengthened quickly over the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday, becoming a large and dangerous Category 4 storm as it churned menacingly westward
View ArticleToronto woman, 19, dies in Cancún balcony fall
Toronto woman, 19, dies in Cancún balcony fall
View ArticlePolice investigate break-in at Canadian Tamil Congress
Toronto police are investigating a break-in at the Canadian Tamil Congress and the apparent theft of the names of the 492 Sri Lankan migrants smuggled to Canada last month.
View ArticleFate of War of 1812 shipwreck playing out in U.S. courts
The legal battle over a recently discovered Lake Erie shipwreck — believed to be the storied, Canadian-built brig Caledonia from the War of 1812 — took another twist last week in a New York court.
View ArticleHearing tests postpartum depression defence
The emotional and potentially polarizing debate over the appropriate punishment for a woman who intentionally kills her child is the focus of a landmark hearing before the Ontario Court of Appeal this...
View ArticlePeter Kuitenbrouwer: Forget French immersion. This Toronto school is teaching...
Tucked behind Toronto’s big University Avenue hospitals, Orde Street Junior Public School bustles in a four-storey red-brick schoolhouse built in 1914, boasting tall wood frame windows with solid stone...
View ArticlePush to lower prices of generic medicines could backfire: drug companies
The result, the generic businesses charge, could be hundreds of millions of dollars in added costs for governments and consumers as higher-priced brand-name pills hang on to their patent protection for...
View ArticleDon Martin: Cure for charisma deficit in federal politics is in municipalities
Don Martin: The cure for a growing charisma deficit in federal party leadership can be found in Canada’s political kindergarten, as municipal election campaigns fire up across the country.
View ArticleCanada should consider health-care user fees: OECD
Canadian policymakers need to introduce changes to the health-care system due to the pressing need to contain spending pressures in the face of an aging population, an OECD report says
View ArticleLive coverage — Toronto mayoral debate: Building and development policies
The Post's city hall reporter Natalie Alcoba is live-tweeting this morning's mayoral debate. All five mayoral candidates will hash out their policies for the building and development industry
View ArticleCanadian Forces ‘unaware’ of any involvement in Afghan heroin smuggling
Canadian Forces officials said Sunday they were looking into U.K. media reports the British government was investigating allegations British and Canadian soldiers were involved in heroin smuggling in...
View ArticleOfficials search for mom who tossed baby into plane's trash
Philippine officials on Monday were searching for the mother of a newborn boy found in the bin of a toilet onboard a Gulf Air flight to Manila
View ArticleTurkey faces long road to EU membership
Turkey won pats on the back from Europe and the United States for passing key constitutional reforms, but its bid to join the European Union failed to convince doubters among EU states on Monday
View ArticleOttawa warned months ago of Tamil influx
The federal government was warned nine months ago by its own diplomats in Sri Lanka that Canada should prepare for a greater influx of Sri Lankan migrants, an internal report shows
View ArticleReinventing Detroit: The road from ruin
About 10,000 homes will come down as Detroit embarks on a mission to excise its rot. Watched by urban planners around the world, this extreme civic experiment revolves around the planned destruction of...
View ArticleFourteen killed at Koran protests in Kashmir
Police shot dead at least 13 people on Monday in anti-government and Koran demonstrations across Indian Kashmir in the biggest single death toll from protests in the disputed region in years.
View ArticleAdrian MacNair: HST starting to weigh the B.C. Liberals down
Premier Gordon Campbell has said repeatedly that he believes the Harmonized Sales Tax [HST] is what is the best thing for the people of the province that he leads
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