Toronto Star News

The change comes after years of litigation and before a judge prepared to rule on the $1.3-billion class action suit.

Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca says Ontario would have the toughest penalties for repeated distracted driving offences in Canada.

Two-thirds of teachers have voted in favour of strike action if no deal is reached. No date for the job action has been set

Senate leaders are engaged in a frantic search for votes in a last-ditch effort to repeal and replace the Obama health law — they must act by Sept. 30 or face the prospect of a Democratic filibuster.

Groups of Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar were on the move again, forced by the rains to salvage what was left of their shanties and move toward drier ground in hopes of some relief.

The retired Canadian astronaut is scheduled to meet with Prince Charles later Wednesday.

The prime minister is scheduled to hold bilateral discussions with the leaders of seven countries —Tajikistan, the Netherlands, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Uganda and Indonesia.

The Criminal Code and Highway Traffic Act charges will be announced this afternoon at a news conference in Vaughan, north of Toronto.

Detectives arrested a 48-year-old man and a 30-year-old man under the Terrorism Act in Newport, Wales. A 25-year-old man was also arrested in Newport on Tuesday.

Two transport trucks collided causing one of the trucks to roll over on its side blocking the eastbound lanes of the highway, east of Mississauga Rd.

Maria is expected to make landfall Wednesday along Puerto Rico’s southeast coast as a Category 4 storm.

It’s easy to imagine a campus culture where cigarette smoking isn’t the only unhealthy habit on the chopping block. What about eating processed foods? Drinking alcohol? Binge watching TV?

Canada has quietly helped establish a new centre in Kabul to treat Afghan vets wounded in that nations many years of conflict.

The magnitude-7.1 quake struck on the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 earthquake that killed thousands.