TORONTO — Ontario’s human rights tribunal has ordered a downtown Toronto restaurant to pay $10,000 to a black man for violating his rights after the establishment asked him and three friends to pre-pay for their meal. The tribunal heard Emile Wickham, who identifies himself as an Afro-Caribbean, went to the Chinese restaurant with three friends…
President Donald Trump has ordered a slowdown to the withdrawal of US forces in Syria, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said on Sunday. "I think we’re in a pause situation," the South Carolina Republican said outside the White House after lunch with the president. Trump announced earlier this month that he was ordering the withdrawal of all roughly…
TORONTO/WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) — Finance Minister Bill Morneau on Thursday highlighted the country’s pension funds as possible investors in Kinder Morgan Inc’s pipeline expansion, but industry sources were skeptical about attracting new investors. Morneau on Wednesday raised the prospect of foreign funding, saying “plenty of investors would be interested” if Kinder Morgan Canada walked away…
Canada’s housing market has officially entered “correction” territory, with the average resale price falling 10.7 per cent in March from a year earlier, according to data released Friday. The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) wasted no time in pointing to the culprit. “Recent changes to mortgage regulations are fueling demand for lower priced homes while…
Indian police have charged four people with murder on suspicion they deliberately poisoned the rice at a village temple, causing the death of 15 devotees, as part of an attempted power-grab. Police say the conspiracy involves a “seer”, his lover, her husband and unwitting agricultural development officer. The plan, they claim, was to murder their…
An elderly British woman suspected of smuggling cocaine into Portugal on a cruise ship has reportedly been taken to hospital. Sue Clarke, 70, was remanded in custody on December 5 after being arrested a day earlier on a cruise liner with £2 million worth of cocaine when the ship docked at Lisbon Port from the Bahamas. Her husband Roger, 72, was…
The governor of the Bank of Canada, Stephen Poloz, had some advice this week for Canadians facing higher housing costs thanks to the Bank’s interest rate hike: Just buy a smaller house. “People who don’t qualify for a mortgage on the house they wish today have multiple avenues of adjustment,” Poloz said during a press…
The Russian Orthodox Church is pursuing disciplinary action against a priest in the city of Tver for a series of immodest Instagram posts in which he flaunts Gucci shoes and Louis Vuitton handbags, a church spokesman has said. The account, belonging to priest Vyacheslav Baskakov, drew social media heat on Friday when users noticed posts…
Sci-fi sandbox No Man’s Sky has just received its latest big update, The Abyss, which focuses on underwater gameplay. For this update, developer Hello Games has implemented a new submersible craft, the Nautilon, plus improved underwater visuals, exploration amd building. Now is the time to realise your dream of building an aquatic utopia – because…
Toronto’s very colourful housing market is still ringing up superlatives, just of a different kind these days. The city has gone from earning descriptions like “record high home sales” a few years ago to superlatives like “biggest price drop in 17 years” in more recent months. And now add another: The region has clocked the…