Politics

HE former Illinois governor accused of trying to sell President Barack Obama’s vacated US senate seat to the highest bidder tossed around the idea of tapping talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, a Chicago court heard. […] […]

OTTAWA—The U.S. government says four alleged Russian spies posed as Canadians to cover their tracks on deep-cover assignments for Moscow. The Justice Department in Washington said Monday that three of them were among 10 who […] […]

Female protesters strip searched by male officers, detainee says Police followed protesters through downtown streets once more Monday as about 1,000 people rallied against alleged police brutality and the detention of people without charge during […] […]

Police are defending their decision to detain hundreds of people — including both protesters and unlucky bystanders — for hours during a heavy rainstorm at a downtown intersection last night. The decision to box people […] […]

Chancellor George Osborne has made clear that welfare payouts face a fresh assault over the summer as the Government looks for savings to reduce Britain’s massive state deficit. Mr Osborne said there would be a […] […]

Turkey’s prime minister is quoted as saying on Monday that his country has closed its airspace to Israeli flights following a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship. Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters in Toronto […] […]

Fiji’s leading newspaper has three months to change its ownership structure so 90 per cent of its shareholders are Fijian citizens or it will be forced to close, the military-led regime said Monday. Armed forces […] […]

The G20 security strategy has been spectacularly successful at cocooning the world’s leading politicians and staggeringly ineffective at protecting the property and peace of mind of Torontonians. And the one, inevitably, led to the other. […] […]

On Saturday, as images of torched police cruisers and masked vandals left a public embarrassed by the world’s view of Toronto, much of the criticism was directed at violent protesters. But by Sunday, with more […] […]

The arrest of two people emerging from a manhole in downtown Toronto on Sunday cast the spotlight on a mundane but critical piece of the G20 security puzzle. In Toronto, as in cities across North […] […]