‘We wanted ... to make sure this public space — the ultimate public space in our city — was being put to good use,’ Mayor John Tory said.

The federal government’s most powerful tool for collecting data might not be asking the questions that need to be answered as Canada’s economy emerges from its pandemic shutdown, experts say.

Of all compliance failures issued to long-term-care homes after comprehensive inspections between January 2015 and June 2019, more than half were met with voluntary plans of correction — a penalty advocates slam as “absolutely useless.”

One reason the conspiracy theorists have been successful in expanding their influence is by presenting civil disobedience as an ideological cause and using inoffensive terms such as freedom and liberty.

In her 13 years in the federal public service, Farah Boisclair was often one of few visible minorities on her teams. All her managers were white. Then she started a dialogue about being Black at work.

Though cases are dropping and vaccinations rates are ramping up across the province, Ontario hospitals continue to operate in a “state of emergency” to cope with hundreds of critically ill COVID-19 patients.

From picnic-ready takeout to hidden-gem parks and Toronto-made movies, local experts share their advice for finding joy in the city during these hard times.

After a rocky start to the final round of the PGA Championship, Mickelson stayed calm — even when the raucous South Carolinian crowd started clamouring. He managed to stay in the present for one last hole for a two-stroke victory. The rest is histo...

Tianna McFarlane hopes to see her inclusive line of bandages on Shoppers Drug Mart shelves in the future.

‘We all watched in horror as one burning spark slowly descended towards the ground and went directly into the full fireworks box,’ writes one Star reader.

The filmmaker and activist, whose father and grandfather both held leadership roles in the NDP, says the drive behind his own political debut actually came from his columnist mother.