Tonight health care will once again be top-of-mind for residents of Walkerton, Ont. With eight days to go before a provincial election and only four weeks after hundreds of people lined up in the cold for a chance to secure a family doctor, candidates will gather for a health-care focused …

More than $50 billion US will be required to rebuild Gaza after Israel’s 15-month campaign against Hamas levelled it, according to a joint report released Tuesday by the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank. The Interim Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (IRDNA) estimated that $53.2 billion US will …

Electric bus manufacturers hit hard by pandemic-era supply chain chaos could soon find themselves pummelled by a trade war.  “The immediate effect of the [U.S. President] Donald Trump tariffs is buses become more expensive overnight,” said Josipa Petrunic, the president and CEO of the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium …

Brazil’s prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former president Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge. Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet alleges that Bolsonaro and 33 others with participating in a …

Mayada Ageeb has been holding protests in downtown Montreal every two weeks, calling for Quebec and Canada to do more to rescue the families of Sudanese Canadians from a war that has been raging for nearly two years and which has displaced more than 12 million people.  The situation in …

Donations of clothes and money are pouring in for three children who were “basically abandoned” by their mother for years, living alone in a suburban Detroit home among trash and feces, a sheriff said Tuesday. “You wouldn’t do this to an animal let alone your child,” Oakland County Sheriff Mike …

After a fender-bender before Christmas, 85-year-old Ossie Gildart was told he’d have to take a driver’s test. But a surprise was waiting for him when he walked into Service New Brunswick in Bathurst. “He said, ‘Mr. Gildart, I’m sorry you can’t take the test, your licence has been suspended,'” Gildart …

Donald Trump said on Tuesday he intends to impose auto tariffs “in the neighbourhood of 25 per cent,” with similar duties on semiconductors and pharmaceutical imports. It’s the latest in a series of measures threatening to upend international trade by the U.S. president. On Friday, Trump said levies on automobiles would come …

Paul Simon fans in Toronto and Vancouver will get a chance to catch the legendary singer-songwriter in a theatre setting after he announced Tuesday a return to touring. The Toronto dates occur several weeks into what is being called the Quiet Celebration tour, which kicks off April 4 in New …

Concern over a man who’d exhibited “fixated behaviour” caused Emma Raducanu to approach the chair umpire in tears and take an unscheduled break in her second-round match at the Dubai Championships, the Women’s Tennis Association said Wednesday. There’d been no immediate explanation Tuesday when the 2021 U.S. Open champion walked …