We’ve all seen him. The big, tough guy brought down by a lowly little bug. The sniffles he’s enduring are worse than those faced by anyone else in the house — skeptical wives and daughters, especially. Well, ladies, he might just be the best catch around. That is the conclusion of a new study out [...]
Two men charged in the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Jordan Manners in a Toronto Escort Agency high school are expected to face a second trial, Attorney General Chris Bentley said Monday. Their first-degree murder trial ended in a mistrial Friday, when the jury told the judge it could not reach a unanimous verdict after four [...]
Toronto Escort Agency – All public-sector workers in Ontario – including municipal police and firefighters who escaped last week’s wage-freeze edict – need to do their part to slay Ontario’s massive deficits, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Sunday. In an exclusive interview with The Canadian Press, McGuinty promised to stand firm on freezing the wages of [...]
Pepe Bustamante tucks a newspaper under his arm and heads for the golden arches, thinking about an Egg McMuffin. The restaurant owner says the need for speed is precisely what brings him to this McDonald’s around 10 a.m. He has errands to run and no time for a leisurely breakfast: “I just come here because [...]
When a massive earthquake hit her native Haiti Jan. 12, Myrlande Charitable worried whether her son had been harmed. When the first of some 200 Haitian children were flown to Canada 12 days later to join their adoptive parents, the Toronto Escort Agency mother felt a sense of hope. But Charitable, who received her refugee [...]
An oil painting of a Canadian war hero is in danger of being sold and leaving the country, to the dismay of family members in Oshawa who want it back. The portrait of Second World War ace fighter pilot Lloyd Chadburn is in a private museum of military artifacts collected by the late Robert Stuart, [...]
Imagine sidewalk cafés everywhere. Add trees and greenery at parking lots. Mix in seating in both the sun and shade along the waterfront. Those are just some of the changes Amanda Burden has made since 2002 as chief of New York City’s planning commission, overseeing vast redevelopment from the Lower East Side in Manhattan to [...]
A two-alarm fire in the west end claimed the life of one man in his early 40s and left another clinging to life in hospital. The fire broke out in a rooming house on 22nd Street, near Lakeshore Boulevard in south Etobicoke, just after 5 a.m. It took firefighters around an hour to extinguish the [...]
Ontario’s social services minister is tweaking four welfare rules in the wake of outrage over the elimination in last Thursday’s budget of a special food allowance that helps one in five people on social assistance pay extra food costs related to medical conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure. The province is instead developing [...]
People across Canada flicked off their lights for Earth Hour, but in two of the country’s largest provinces, the results were dimmer than in the past two years. Ontario saw a four per cent drop in electricity demand Saturday night during Earth Hour, or enough to power a city the size of Brampton, Ontario’s electricity [...]