Politics

TORONTO — Officials in Toronto on Thursday proposed several measures to tackle the budget crisis facing Canada's largest city, seeking additional revenue through new taxes and raising rates of certain existing taxes.

WASHINGTON — A self-described "activist" from Quebec who pleaded guilty to sending Donald Trump a poison-laced letter at the height of the former president's ill-fated 2020 re-election effort has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison.

DERBY, Connecticut (AP) — A Connecticut alderman and mayoral candidate is pressing ahead with his campaign after being charged this week by federal prosecutors with illegally entering the U.S. Capitol during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Democratic National Committee asked a federal appeals court Thursday to dismiss a case centered on Alabama party infighting that could test the requirements of the Voting Rights Act.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lawmakers voted Thursday to confirm that a controversial government-planned referendum on migration will be held alongside key parliamentary elections in October.

TORONTO — Metro Inc. has asked a conciliation officer to step in and help it find a resolution to a strike by grocery store workers in Toronto, the grocer said Thursday.

OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced a plan to address student housing shortages on Thursday.

OTTAWA — If you live in Montreal or Vancouver and own an electric car, finding somewhere to charge it is likely as easy as a quick search of an app on your smartphone.

OTTAWA — David Pratt is the first person to announce his intention to run to be the new national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.

OTTAWA — If a single mother with a newborn baby starts looking for city-subsidized housing in Canada's largest urban centre today, she might see her child enter high school before they find a new home.