A Toronto man has been charged for allegedly defrauding 28 investors of $6.6 million they provided to trade in foreign exchange. Instead of putting investors' funds into individual trading accounts, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) alleges Seyed Mohammad Ali Nojoumi who goes by Ali Nojoumi and two other individuals controlling Smart Prime Group used the money to pay personal expenses and other investors.
Regardless of the destination, Davidson recommends travellers give themselves lots of time to navigate the airport: three hours before departure for international flights or two hours for domestic flights. Passengers should check restrictions for carry-on baggage ahead of time, says Matthew Blanche, terminal manager for the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority. When in doubt, he says, put it in a checked bag.
New estimates released on Wednesday by Statistics Canada showed that Canada's population fell by 0.2% in the third quarter to stand at 41.6 million, down from 41.65 million on 1 July. It was the only other quarterly decline on record came in 2020, and was attributed to Covid-19 border restrictions. The recent decline, however, is driven largely by a drop in the number of international students studying in Canada after Ottawa pledged to tamp down on the number of study permits issued.
A source tipped us off to something strange: a campaign called KICLEI was flooding city councillor inboxes across Canada with slick, professional-sounding messages urging municipalities to abandon their climate commitments. It posed as environmental wisdom, but it was a Trojan Horse designed to undermine municipal climate policy. Before, we would have investigated one city and written one story. But we had access to something new: a search engine we'd built in-house covering 617 municipalities and 24,318 council meetings.
This is more than just tourism it's economic growth, job creation, investment and prosperity, Ford said. According to Ford, the strategy will unlock the region's full potential, focusing on five pillars: attractions, transportation, gaming, wine and restaurants, and arts and culture. Potential projects include a theme park and others redevelopments and revitalizations, said a news release from the province.
Toronto city councillors are set to decide the fate of a contractor that intentionally overbilled the city more than $1 million, a breach of the supplier code of conduct uncovered by a forensic audit conducted for the city. Staff are recommending Capital Sewer Services Inc. face the maximum suspension Toronto can issue against suppliers that break the city's rules: a five-year contracting ban on it and all its affiliated companies.
I am someone with decades of experience working on large mining, oil and gas, and environmental projects in many capacities-from Peru to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from Patagonia to Northern Canada. I have been at the tip of the spear for construction but also on teams managing ecological impacts. I have seen first-hand how well a project can go but also the disaster that can befall it if it is rushed.
Like its predecessor, Club Med Tremblant will be an all-inclusive resort geared towards skiers, with a location in the Laurentian Mountains. The overall vibe, according to Club Med's announcement, will include an evocation of "a contemporary Alpine Chalet," complete with a "[s]ki-in and ski-out experience." While the resort is slated to open in December of 2028, it isn't a seasonal operation: visitors booking stays in the summer will have a range of options on hand, including hiking and various aquatic activities.
Touting itself as a "contemporary art hotel," Sonolux has turned its eight floors into video art galleries, with handpicked works projected across hallway walls. Repurposed red movie theater seats allow you to sit down and contemplate the art. If you're not necessarily used to seeing immersive multimedia art in hotels, it can be a little jarring to step off an elevator into a dim space popping with raucous animation and sound effects, but one of Sonolux's goals is to provoke,
Ontario Provincial Police say one person is dead after a two-vehicle collision in Kawartha Lakes Saturday. In a post to social media, police said a cargo van and a car crashed on Highway 35. The driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The driver of the cargo van was transported to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The study which must be completed by law every decade and was due to start earlier this year was delayed by the snap election called by Premier Doug Ford in late January, the minister said. I think everyone knows we had a winter election, as of that, we are taking time to get the framework put in place so we can do a proper review, Flack said. The Greenbelt is enshrined in legislation for generations to come.
That doesn't just affect the purchase of alcohol, it also means fewer locations for consumers to drop off empties and get back the deposit paid on alcohol containers. Grocers with alcohol licences were expected to start accepting empties in the new year, but a new agreement means they won't have to after all. The changing landscape has left some neighbourhoods and regions essentially Beer Store deserts, and could mean less participation in the recycling program.
Air Canada has successfully overturned a Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) decision requiring the airline to pay a passenger $2,079 for delayed baggage. After an 11-month court battle launched by Air Canada, Federal Court Justice Michael Manson ruled that a CTA officer's 2024 decision was unreasonable. The matter has been sent back to the CTA, Canada's transport regulator, for a new officer to reassess the compensation claim.
A provincially appointed supervisor has fired the director of education at Ontario's largest school board, amid a shakeup of board governance by the education minister. The supervisor of the Toronto District School Board says in a memo to staff Friday that the board needs a fresh start and Clayton La Touche is leaving, effective immediately. Education Minister Paul Calandra says in a statement that he has full confidence that supervisor Rohit Gupta will help refocus the TDSB on student achievement.
Two of Canada's wealthiest families have cleared the final hurdle on the road to buying and donating the royal charter that created the Hudson's Bay Co. Ontario Superior Court Judge Peter Osborne gave the shuttered retailer permission Thursday to sell the 355-year-old document to holding companies belonging to the Thomson and Weston families for $18 million. The families plan to donate the charter immediately and permanently to the Archives of Manitoba, the Manitoba Museum, the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., and the Royal Ontario Museum.
It registered a marginal trade surplus of $153 million in September, following a $6.43 billion deficit in the prior month, Statistics Canada said. This was the first ever surplus that Canada has posted since U.S. President Donald Trump threatened and later imposed tariffs on critical sectors, which choked significant exports to the U.S., Canada's biggest trading partner. The bulk of the surplus was driven by a 44 per cent jump in Canada's trade surplus with the U.S., Statistics Canada data showed.
Families received a letter from Southwood Park Public School on Oct. 1 informing them about the decision to cancel such trips, which meant that Grade 8 students would no longer go on a graduation trip to Ottawa. Students in Grades 6 and 7 would have also missed out on overnight trips to Claremont Nature Centre in Pickering and to Muskoka Woods, respectively.
He said he's put in alarm systems and 24-hour security cameras at his collectable card stores in Ajax and Vaughan. The store's staff have vigorous security training and customers have to buzz in at some entrances, Amendola said. I treat it like a bank essentially, he said. In the past five years, the company has had three break-ins, an armed robbery, and six figures worth of mail fraud and theft, Amendola said.
The two-year closure of a major street running through Oshawa, Ont., to complete a planned GO train expansion isn't sitting well with residents and councillors in the south end of the city. Provincial transit agency Metrolinx has faced public pressure to release its construction schedule for the Bowmanville expansion project after it delivered a confidential presentation to Durham regional councillors last month.
