As temperatures around Toronto and across Ontario drop to -20 Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit), residents are reporting frost quakes that are powerful enough to shake houses and rattle nerves. Usually found in extreme polar regions, the recent outbreak of frost quakes, known to meteorologists as cryoseisms, are now affecting many residents of Toronto, Canada’s most populous city. The weather-related phenomenon,... 

The Canadian police have arrested a citizen on charges of trying to provide classified information to the Chinese government, officials say. Canadian police arrested Ontario resident Qing Quentin Huang on Saturday, on charges that he was taking steps to pass on classified information to China relating to Canada’s national shipbuilding strategy, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said on... 

A new study shows nine out of 10 families occupying aging high-rises in Toronto’s low-income neighborhoods are living in inadequate housing and risk homelessness. The University of Toronto study, released on Friday, showed half of those families live in overcrowded places and one third spend more than half their income on rent. The results of the study were published on the same day that people... 

A leaked study examining genetically-modified corn reveals that the lab-made alternative to organic crops contains a startling level of toxic chemicals. An anti-GMO website has posted the results of an education-based consulting company’s comparison of corn types, and the results reveal that genetically modified foods may be more hazardous than once thought. The study, the 2012 Corn Comparison Report... 

The Conservative Canadian government is abandoning its much-criticized internet surveillance bill, which would have allowed the government to keep tabs on its citizens and was disguised under the cloak of fighting child pornographers. ­Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced that Bill C-30, which caused public ire over privacy, is dead. “We’ve listened to the concerns of Canadians,” Nicholson... 

Canadian doctors aim to stem their country’s obesity epidemic in a radical new way: Copying anti-smoking campaigns. They have suggested slapping threatening labels on pizzas, soda drinks and other junk food, warning of the diseases they might cause. ­The Ontario Medical Association (OMA) unveiled several mock-ups on Tuesday to promote their plan, including a pizza box with a picture of a liver... 

Students protest tuition fee increases on May 30, 2012 in Montreal. Growing protests across Canada against tuition hikes have now spilled over from Montreal to Toronto as talks between student leaders and officials continue in Quebec aimed at ending the 16-week dispute. Protesters on Wednesday gathered in downtown of Toronto in solidarity with their counterparts in Quebec, protesting the high cost... 

A police car burns after G20 summit protesters set fire to it in downtown Toronto on Saturday. More than 400 people were arrested as violence broke out after thousands of anti-G20 protesters marched through downtown Toronto on Saturday, prompting police to use tear gas in the city for the first time. “I am profoundly disappointed in the criminal acts which have taken place,” Toronto police Chief... 

A sobering report circulating in the Kremlin today from President Medvedev’s meeting with other World leaders at the G8 summit in Muskoka, Ontario states that President Obama has warned his counterparts that the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster “will most likely kill millions, perhaps tens of millions” of people during the coming year. Fueling Obama’s dire assessment of this “Gulf Apocalypse”,... 

The self-proclaimed “Chinese Warren Buffett,” arrested in Toronto Wednesday for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme, has no money and will need to seek legal aid very quickly, his lawyer says. Weizhen Tang, the alleged mastermind behind the multimillion-dollar scheme, made a brief court appearance on Thursday, but his bail hearing was put over until Friday morning. “I expect that the bond issue,... 

The real political advisers who are directing MP Harper’s government. Mr. Rogers is an octogenarian with the political perspicacity of a wise Elder. There was a time when cultures respected the words of their Elders as is still traditionally so in Native American circles. Maybe it’s time we once again began paying homage to those who have the courage to speak out in defense of their country when... 

TORONTO — A man previously convicted of promoting hatred was arrested again last night in Toronto, after giving a speech to a small group gathered at an airport hotel. “Well, so much for free speech and democracy,” said Brad Love, 48, as he was escorted from a conference room by eight officers. It was Mr. Love’s fourth arrest in six years. One officer said Mr. Love was arrested...