At least five people are dead following a multi-vehicle crash and fire on Highway 400 Friday night, Ontario Provincial Police have confirmed. It happened in the southbound lanes of the highway south of Sheppard Avenue at around 9:45 p.m. Preliminary information suggested that the fire started after a vehicle ran …

A 13-year-old girl has died after being struck by a vehicle in Brampton Thursday, Peel police have confirmed. The incident happened at around 5 p.m. at Centre Street North and Prouse Drive. Police said it was an off-duty officer on their way to work who hit the girl. She was …

Downtown Toronto does not resemble the world at large. It does not resemble Canada. It does not resemble Steinbach, Man., where some elected officials aren’t so keen on celebrating sexual diversity. In June, the city of Toronto looks pretty gay. I don’t mean this in the idiotic, pejorative, prepubescent way …

LONDON (AP) – Britain and the EU haven’t even begun divorce talks but they are already bickering, as political and economic shockwaves from the British vote spread around the world. Credit rating agency Moody’s downgraded the U.K.’s economic outlook from stable to negative, saying Britain faces “a prolonged period of …

BEIJING (AP) – China issued new regulations on Saturday demanding search engines clearly identify paid search results, months after a terminally-ill cancer patient complained that he was misled by the giant search engine Baidu. Wei Zexi, a college student who died in April of a rare cancer, had written a …

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the Delhi Police arrested Sangam Vihar MLA Dinesh Mohaniya for allegedly misbehaving with a group of women who had gone to him to complain about the water crisis. Mohaniya, who is also vice-chairman of Delhi …

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday won the Anantnag by-election by over 12,000 votes. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader, who became Chief Minister on April 4, polled 17,700 votes while Congress` Hilal Ahmad Shah managed only 5,600 votes of the nearly 28,500 votes polled on …

New Delhi: Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy’s remark that ministers who wear a coat and tie “look like waiters” has not gone down well with Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra. Vadra has taken a dim view of Swamy’s remarks and described the Rajya Sabha member’s derogatory remark about …

New Delhi: On this day in 1975, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had clamped a nation-wide emergency, which is said to be one of the darkest days of Indian democracy. Now 41 years later, the BJP-led NDA government wants to highlight the excesses during the Emergency with nationwide rallies. …

Rajya Sabha MP Navjot Singh Sidhu has been included by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in its core group for Punjab, while state minister Anil Joshi has not found place in the premier group. Sidhu, who remained Lok Sabha MP from Amritsar three times before bowing out in favour of …