Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday but will not attend the late former Soviet leader’s funeral, a decision reflecting the Kremlin’s ambivalence about Gorbachev’s legacy. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that prior to departing for a working trip to Russia’s westernmost Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, …

Not far from the roar of the midway, a special exhibit at the Canadian National Exhibition quietly combines art and technology to give visitors a sense of the history and culture of a First Nations community. That community, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, is known in Toronto because its traditional …

Sixteen-year-old Ivy Peng says her tutoring project starts with her own parents’ story. They arrived in Alberta 20 years ago, struggling with the language barrier, and financially. There was no money for private tutoring to help with learning a new language. Peng says she had difficulty with English herself in her early grades at school …

People living in Kelowna, B.C., and surrounding communities are bracing for disruption to bus service, with public transit workers in a legal position to strike shortly after noon on Thursday. That’s when members of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1722 — which represents Kelowna Regional Transit operators, office staff and maintenance …

Ottawa’s luxury tax on high-priced cars, planes and boats is coming into effect today, despite warnings from some critics that the measure will hurt the economy and turn out to be more trouble than it’s worth. As of Thursday, luxury cars and personal aircraft with sale prices of over $100,000 …

Bad weather during last fall and winter, believed to be a direct result of climate change, has taken its toll on the wine-making industry in Ontario, after an alarming decrease in the grape harvest. Hamilton-based Steve Byfield is a winemaker at the virtual winery Nyarai Cellars, which buys grapes from vineyards across …

The International Monetary Fund announced Thursday it has reached a preliminary agreement to provide Sri Lanka with $2.9 billion over four years to help it recover from its worst economic crisis. The arrangement will help restore financial and macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability. It will also enable the country’s growth …

Two more men have been charged with murder in  the alleged violent kidnapping of a father, police say, that put one of his sons in hospital and left another son dead. Police say a 25-year-old man and a 35-year-old man from Hamilton were arrested Wednesday and are now facing charges …