Newly installed Premier Doug Ford has suspended a key provision in a popular consumer protection law that was supposed to clamp down on skyrocketing ticket scalper prices. Ontario’s anti-scalping law came into force on Canada Day and originally contained language capping the resale price of tickets to 50 per centRead More →
In a stunning setback for the TTC’s problem-plagued streetcar order, Bombardier now says most of the vehicles it has already delivered to the transit agency will have to be taken out of service and shipped to Quebec to correct a serious welding defect. The Star has learned that after aRead More →
Saying sweeping reforms brought in by the Liberal government “hurt policing efforts,” Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government postponed the implementation of the Ontario Special Investigations Unit Act — one day before the law strengthening police oversight was to come into effect. In a letter sent to Ontario police associations Friday,Read More →
A missing gold chain, rap videos brazenly shot in rival neighbourhoods and other examples of what observers call signs of disrespect are fuelling online rhetoric as violence escalates across downtown. It is worrying community workers and challenging city officials over how to police a youthful, impressionable culture rooted in socialRead More →
The long goodbye turned into a fond and sentimental hello again. It’s not his home and native ballpark anymore but the Rogers Centre — Toronto — endures as a bell jar for so much of the glory that Jose Bautista enjoyed in a gaudy career. New York Mets right fielderRead More →
