Labour Minister Kevin Flynn said the ongoing review will help protect a growing number of vulnerable workers. An expert panel has found a “serious problem” with enforcement of employment standards across Ontario. “We conclude there are too many people in too many workplaces who do not receive their basic rights,” …

A provincial arbitrator ruled the TTC didn’t do enough to protect its employees from harassment on Twitter. In a labour ruling believed to be the first of its kind in Ontario, a provincial arbitrator has censured the TTC for its behaviour on Twitter, determiningthat the transit agency didn’t do enough …

CZESTOCHOWA, Poland (AP) – Pope Francis, visiting a shrine cherished by Poles, praised native son St. John Paul II on Thursday as a “meek and powerful” herald of mercy, and honored the countless “ordinary yet remarkable people” in Poland who held firm to their Catholic faith throughout adversity in the …

PARIS (AP) – The second man who attacked a Normandy church during a morning Mass this week, slitting the throat of the elderly priest, is a 19-year-old Frenchman from eastern France, the prosecutor’s office said Thursday. An official in the prosecutor’s office said it was “very probable” that the man, …

Mumbai: Veteran writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi breathed her last in Kolkata on Thursday. She was 90. The writer, who was honoured with the Jnanpith Award in 1996 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2006, had been undergoing treatment at a hospital for about two months. The 90-year-old suffered from …

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi took on the Narendra Modi government on Thursday in the Lok Sabha on the issue of rising prices of essential commodities. Mounting a scathing attack on PM Modi over price rise, Gandhi asked, “ The PM had promised to bring down price rise, …

Mumbai: A Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court, Thursday, held Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal and 11 others guilty in 2006 Aurangabad Arms haul case. While delivering the order, the MCOCA court accepted prosecution’s case that there was a conspiracy after 2002 Gujarat riots to eliminate then …

Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party MP Bhagwant Mann on Thursday submitted a five-page letter to the parliamentary panel, claiming that he did not commit a mistake by posting the visuals of security pickets inside the Parliament House Complex. The parliamentary panel, which is probing the case, was formed by the Lok …

In what is being touted as the largest ‘sample survey’ of the reality of drug addiction in Punjab, the state police on Wednesday started dope tests on the first lot of 4.7 lakh male aspirants for 6,252 jobs of constable. On the first day, of the 7,800 candidates tested across …

A Punjab Court on Thursday rejected the bail plea of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Naresh Yadav in connection with the alleged Quran desecration case. The Mehrauli MLA was earlier on Wednesday sent to judicial custody till August 1. Yadav, who was earlier on July 25 sent to two-day police …