Jason Blake scored with 4:05 remaining as the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the New York Islanders 3-2 on Wednesday night.

The 13 per cent tax comes into effect July 1, 2010.

MPs in the House of Commons vote 253-37 in favour of a harmonized sales tax for Ontario and B.C.

Facebook has rolled out its promised changes to beef up privacy controls, allowing users to decide exactly who sees status updates, pictures and other content.

The surging Toronto Raptors look to extend their season-high winning streak to four games while trying to send the Milwaukee Bucks to a fifth consecutive loss Wednesday night at the Bradley Center.

The Toronto Star says 166 employees will take severance packages at the country's largest circulation daily newspaper as part of broad cost cuts.

Ontario is preparing for what it promises will be major pension reforms, aimed at creating a system better able to withstand economic turmoil.

The HST is a big step closer to reality for Ontario and B.C. The House of Commons voted 253-37 today in favour of a 13 per cent harmonized sales tax for the two provinces.

Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout has arrived home to her native province of Alberta, two weeks after she was finally freed from her captors in Somalia.

Facebook is giving users better control over who sees information on their personal pages. The online social network is launching new privacy settings Wednesday that are designed to simplify the cumbersome controls that have confounded many users.

Two models of the Honda Civic have landed on an annual top 10 list of most frequently stolen vehicles.

The LCBO launched the Deflate the Elephant campaign which acknowledges that drinking and driving can often be the "elephant in the room".

Clifford George, 46, allegedly exposed himself to a woman at Kipling Station.

The federal government's position on climate change is damaging Canada's international status, says Mayor David Miller.

Winter's first storm hit the GTA today with snow turning to rain downtown.

Thieves are targeting two very different models, the Insurance Bureau of Canada outlines in its annual list of the most frequently stolen vehicles.

The first significant winter storm of the season in southern and eastern Ontario is already causing travel headaches.

Ten people have been arrested in a "john" sweep aimed at curbing solicitaion for sex in Brampton.

Toronto Police are still searching for his alleged accomplice.

A century-old Oakville farmhouse went up in flames early this morning before collapsing and caving into its basement.

The first significant winter storm of the season in southern and eastern Ontario is already causing travel headaches.

If you own a 2000 Honda Civic SiR two-door — keep an eye on it.

Toronto's public board should save the final nine school pools slated to close, says a draft report.

There is a Grade 11 history class in Etobicoke that has been known to give its teacher Shelley Kyte nightmares just from planning some of the lessons.

Toronto's highly trained police officers rake in millions of dollars moonlighting as construction site guards, manhole watchers and doing other menial jobs that crossing guards or even pylons could do at a fraction of the cost, a Toronto Star investigation has found.