Management at the Toronto Star newspaper has filed formal notice of a plan to contract out newsroom production work and cut 121 jobs in a bid to save more than $4 million a year.

The Toronto stock market closed lower Tuesday following a disappointing revision to recent U.S. economic growth figures and a tepid reading on consumer sentiment just before the start of the holiday shopping season.

It's time for Ontario to take aggressive action on child poverty despite a $25-billion deficit because the longer the province waits to deal with the burden, the more expensive it's going to get, child poverty advocates said Tuesday.

The Conservative government introduced new legislation Tuesday that will compel Internet service providers (ISPs) to report to law enforcement officials if they find or learn of child pornography on their networks.

Conservative MP Gerald Keddy has apologized for saying unemployed Haligonians are "no-good bastards" because they won't work on Christmas tree farms.

Neurologists say the story of a Belgian man wrongly diagnosed as vegetative for 23 years is a rare case but that new technologies are evolving to find others who might be in the same state.

After a week together, the crews of shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station said goodbye Tuesday and closed the hatches between them.

A leading economist says the harmonized sales tax is one of the most important things Ontario can do to help make its economy more competitive.

The CEO of a B.C.-based company at the centre of a recall involving 2.1 million cribs after four deaths were reported, says his company's products are safe and that it is the responsibility of caregivers to ensure the cribs are assembled properly.

Children who are exposed to tobacco in the womb and to lead during childhood are almost eight times more likely to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, researchers have found.

Ontario is taking a hard line ahead of a meeting on climate change Wednesday involving Canada's environment ministers, warning that a national cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gases cannot "discriminate" against the country's most populous province.

The Toronto Maple Leafs placed forward John Mitchell and goalie Vesa Toskala on injured reserve and recalled netminder Joey MacDonald on Tuesday.

Hamilton police are on the hunt for an escaped prisoner and two armed suspects who allegedly assisted in the getaway. They were last seen heading east on Birge Street.

Amnesty Canada has joined opposition members in calling for a public inquiry into the issue of Canadian troops transferring detainees over to Afghan authorities, a situation that critics say puts prisoners at risk of being tortured.

Toronto's 54th homicide victim has been identified as someone who had belonged to the notorious Malvern Crew street gang. Alton Reid had been at a birthday party when someone walked in and started shooting.

A top Canadian consumer advocate says the federal government needs to have the authority to pull a potentially dangerous product from the market, just as a B.C. company issues the largest-ever recall of cribs in North America on reports of injuries and deaths.

A new analysis by Dale Orr Economic Insight says Canada's recession has been longer and deeper than the official record indicates -- and that Canadians have seen a 4.3 per cent falloff in their standard of living since 2007.

The Progressive Conservatives are intentionally distorting the facts about the harmonized sales tax in order to scare Ontario voters, Premier Dalton McGuinty charged Tuesday after days of being called a liar by the official Opposition.

Older adults who take certain medications such as antidepressants and sleeping pills are at greater risk of a fall that could hasten their death, say Canadian researchers.

Tom Cochrane, Rush, Stompin' Tom Connors and Kardinal Offishall were among those honoured by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada at its 20th annual awards gala on Monday night.