Feds are asked to move aid commitment from one LRT to another, and one councillor sees it as evidence that the province wants a subway, not LRT, on Sheppard. City council may have ended the debate over one controversial Scarborough subway this week, but the dispute over a second one …

Motion ‘seems silly’ to some but council sends text message of its own, calling for province to bar pedestrians from using their devices while crossing road. Pokemon GO players, texting addicts, and avid Instagrammers beware — city council wants to crack down on you. At the end of a lengthy …

Advice from a human resources manager to fire one of the RCMP members was ignored. Instead, two of the individuals were docked several days’ pay, with one returning later to the unit to the dismay of co-workers OTTAWA—The RCMP’s top brass have apologized for failing to deal properly with the …

NICE, France (AP) – A large truck plowed through revelers gathered for Bastille Day fireworks in Nice, killing at least 84 people and sending others fleeing into the sea as it bore down for more than a mile along the Riviera city’s famed waterfront promenade. The driver was killed by …

New Delhi: In what is a clear provocation, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced that his country will observe July 19 as black day against death of civilians in Kashmir, the Pakistani media reported on Friday. The decision to observe July 19 as black day to express complete solidarity …

Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh cabinet on Friday cleared the proposal for creating a Happiness Department – a move aimed at making the people of this BJP-ruled state free of their worries. Madhya Pradesh has thus become the first state in the country to have such a department that will coordinate …

New Delhi: Newly appointed Minister of State for social justice and empowerment Ramdas Athawale is reported to be keen on appointing former Deputy Consul-General of India in New York Devyani Khobragade as his private secretary. While news agency PTI claimed that the order to appoint Khobragade as Athawale’s PS was …

The manifesto gaffe has led to dissident voices in the Punjab unit of the Aam Aadmi Party. At a recent meeting of the party’s campaign committee, some senior Punjab leaders expressed their disillusionment for being forced to cut a sorry figure over the party using a picture of Golden Temple …

The Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party government is reconsidering the controversial provisions of the proposed Punjab Control of Organised Crime Act (PCOCA), a stringent piece of legislation pushed by the police as an antidote to the rampant criminal activities of gangsters in the border state. At the cabinet meeting on …