The TTC’s financial pressure is larger than in previous years. It’s facing $178 million in increased operating costs amid decreased ridership and council demands for spending cuts. As it heads into the 2017 budget process, the TTC is facing a perfect storm. Costs at the transit agency are rising, ridership …

Decades-long waiting list limits access to canoe storage space on prime park real estate. Beach-lovers feel they’re up the creek without a paddle as a publicly funded boathouse continues to house private canoes on prime park land for next to nothing — but features a waiting list longer than a …

Rider frustration mounts with go-slow orders, failing AC, overcrowded trains and scheduling stumbles on the Lakeshore line. GO Transit is apologizing for a mess of service problems that have afflicted its trains over the past month. But while the agency is promising some relief is on the way, officials are …

ANSBACH, Germany (AP) – A failed asylum-seeker from Syrian blew himself up and wounded 12 people after being turned away from an open-air music festival in southern Germany in what officials said Monday may have been a suicide bombing. It was the fourth attack to shake Germany in a week …

BAGHDAD (AP) – For nearly a decade, anyone driving through one of Baghdad’s many checkpoints was subjected to a search by a soldier pointing a security wand at their vehicle and watching the device intently to see if its antenna moved. If it pointed at the car, it had supposedly …

New Delhi: A medical team belonging to the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) has applied for a visa at the Indian High Commission to visit Kashmir. According to reports, the visa has been sought on grounds of ‘offering help’ to those who suffered during the violent stone-throwing protests following the July 8 killing …

New Delhi: Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday broke silence and revealed that he resigned from the Rajya Sabha as he was repeatedly being asked to stay away from his home state Punjab. Addressing a much-awaited press conference here, Sidhu said: “I resigned from Rajya Sabha because I was told …

New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Monday formed a nine-member committee to probe into live streaming of a video of Parliament House complex by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Bhagwant Mann on his Facebook page. Saying that Mann’s videography of the Parliament House complex had put its security …

Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday charged Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders of not caring about religious tenets and national security. Addressing mediapersons after paying obeisance at the Golden Temple, Sukhbir said AAP leader Bhagwant Mann’s act of recording and sharing the Parliament video endangered the security …