Financial uncertainties for 2025 are piling up, but we at least have a degree of clarity on interest rates and the economy. Twelve months ago, we waited anxiously for interest rates to finally start falling... read more
Karen Man and her husband Elliot Pobjoy did not consider themselves entrepreneurial types until a few years ago. A dentist and a lawyer, respectively, they fit the classic “work your way up while working for... read more
Gift-giving is a life skill and the holidays are the ideal time to teach your kids how to do it in a thoughtful and budget-friendly way. Giving gifts can be a beautiful experience for both... read more
Thirteen violent years after Syria first rose up, the Arab Spring has finally prevailed in Damascus. On Sunday, the country got the change it first demanded in February, 2011, when a wave of pro-democracy revolutions was... read more
The federal government is banning even more firearms as it seeks to fulfill a long-standing promise to enact the tightest gun restrictions in a generation, and is also finally getting its much-delayed buyback program off... read more
A family of four could pay $800 more for groceries in 2025 because of climate change, labour challenges, new policies and geopolitical events, says a report published Thursday. The 2025 Food Price Report used artificial-intelligence... read more
Nicole Hannah is preparing to tell her two teenage kids that their Christmas presents won’t be coming this year – not on time, at least, as the postal strike drags on. Ms. Hannah had ordered... read more
Cynthia Appiah never imagined herself becoming an Olympic bobsledder. Growing up in Toronto Community Housing as the child of Ghanaian immigrants, she didn’t dream of steering a fiberglass sled down an icy track at breakneck... read more
If you work with yarn and need some guidance, Sharon Hudemka has got you sorted. Along with spinning wheels, needles and other supplies, the owner of Knitting Time in Lethbridge, Alta., carries more than 2,000... read more
Israel announced a ceasefire plan with Lebanon after more than a year of war that has brought trauma and destruction to both sides of the border and forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. The... read more
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is vowing to impose 25-per-cent tariffs on all products from Canada and Mexico as soon as he takes office, saying he will keep them in place until both countries crack down... read more
Vladimir Putin has escalated Russia’s hybrid war against the West again and again over the past decade, betting each time that the United States, in particular, will back down before he does. Now Mr. Putin is upping... read more
The federal government is seeking to restrict large investors from amassing single-family homes, as it tries to deal with the lack of affordable housing in the country. With the launch of a formal consultation on... read more
Three separate Greater Toronto Area police forces are investigating scores of complaints about Taylor Swift concert ticket scams, including one that is alleged to have affected hundreds of people, among them enthusiasts travelling from other... read more
Thousands of Canada Post workers went on strike Friday, after the national postal service and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers failed to reach a deal for a new collective agreement. The strike will significantly... read more
