Customers and employees got word last Thursday that Silverstein’s would be shutting down. Silverstein’s Bakery, a longtime staple of Toronto’s culinary scene, abruptly closed last week after nearly 100 years in business. The bakery, at McCaul and Baldwin streets, for generations supplied its goods to restaurants, grocery stores and delicatessens …

Hundreds of people have been camped out almost 24 hours a day at the park by the terminal, hunting for virtual pocket monsters on their phone. These gosh darn kids and their gosh darn Pokemon Go. After a few weeks of being the most popular mobile game in recent history, …

Medical staff from Scarborough Hospital performed the surgery on Tuesday A 44-year-old female gorilla from the Toronto Zoo is recovering after surgery to remove a mass from her leg. Medical staff from Toronto’s Scarborough Hospital performed the surgery on Tuesday in the western lowland gorilla habitat at the zoo. The …

BEIJING (AP) – A Chinese lawyer was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday in the third in a series of subversion trials demonstrating the ruling Communist Party’s determination to silence independent human rights activists and government critics. The sentence given to Zhou Shifeng results from his role as director …

BELMOPAN, Belize (AP) – Hurricane Earl has slammed into the coast of the Caribbean nation of Belize with winds of 80 mph (130 kph, bringing with it heavy rain. The hurricane made landfall near Belize City, and was moving roughly westward, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. While Earl is …

New Delhi: India moved a major step closer towards a unified goods and services tax regime across the country, with the upper house of Parliament passing the relevant Constitution amendment bill on Wednesday, in what is seen as the most radical indirect tax reform since independence. The 66-year-old Constitution, which …

New Delhi: In a big setback to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is engaged in a bitter power struggle with the Centre, the Delhi High Court on Thursday ruled that the Lieutenant Governor is not bound to act as per the advise of the state cabinet. Ruling in favour of …

New York: The United Nations has said that Kashmir is an internal matter of India and it has no mandate beyond the Line of Control (LoC) to monitor the situation there. The remarks mark a U-turn as the UN had recently said that it will continue to monitor the situation …

The Parkash-SinghBadal-led Akali-BJP government is yet to provide “sanctioned staff” to Punjab Claims Commission four years after the Punjab and Haryana high court formed the panel. On Wednesday, the commission headed by chief justice VK Bali (retired) wrote to chief minister Badal about how officials of the home department looked …

Even before the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announces its first list of 20 candidates for the assembly polls, bush fire of protests against the ‘finalised’ candidates have erupted at many places in the state. Former bureaucrat Hardip Singh Kingra, a ticket hopeful from Faridkot, quit the party on Wednesday in …