Politics

Former Toronto mayor John Tory, whose resignation over an affair with a staffer triggered a byelection, stepped back into the public realm on Wednesday to endorse his ex-deputy, Ana Bailão, for the city's top job.

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MONTREAL — Police said Wednesday they arrested 45 people and seized 440 weapons in simultaneous raids across eight provinces, targeting manufacturers of 3D-printed or "ghost" guns, which are increasingly showing up at crime scenes in Canada.

A feminist lawmaker who has been pressing for the Equal Rights Amendment for five decades came up short in her final effort before leaving the Maine Legislature. Rep.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia mayor says a patient died last week in his Annapolis Valley town after going into cardiac arrest at a hospital where no doctor was present. Mayor Sylvester Atkinson of Middleton, N.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito accepted a 2008 trip to a luxury fishing lodge in Alaska from two wealthy Republican donors, one of whom repeatedly had interests before the court, and he did not disclose the trips on his financia

OTTAWA — Military investigators are trying to piece together what caused a Chinook helicopter to crash during a training exercise in eastern Ontario, killing two crew members and injuring two others.

OTTAWA — The global rise in misinformation threatens national institutions and processes that underpin democracy, warns Canada's chief justice.

MONTREAL — Several Quebec communities were told to prepare to evacuate their homes on Wednesday, as the province's forests minister warned that firefighters were on the verge of losing control of dozens of fires that were previously contained.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised a flag on Parliament Hill Wednesday morning to honour Indigenous people who were forced to attend residential schools.