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Researchers at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto have discovered a gene may be responsible for the behaviours commonly linked to autism. The study published in the May 13 issue of the science journal Nature , looked at genetic data from 9,349 people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and 8,332 without the condition. The…

Film festival shadowing, business support announcement and hospital deficit fallout.

If you’re interested in how universities came to stifle ideas, Ric Esther Bienstock has made a movie for you. Speechless , a new documentary for CBC and BBC about the political upheaval transforming universities in North America and the U.K., is now available on CBC Gem. “For me, university was a place where you wrestled…

About half of Ontarians say their impression of Premier Doug Ford has worsened in recent months and 56 per cent believe the province is headed in the wrong direction, according to a new Postmedia-Leger survey. Barely over a third (36 per cent) of Ontarians surveyed believe the province is headed in the right direction. The…

Immigration lawyers across Canada are co-ordinating a constitutional challenge against Ottawa’s new asylum law, with three dozen cases already filed in Federal Court.

The boycott by Canadians of travel to the U.S., driven largely by an aversion to President Donald Trump, his industry-wrecking tariffs and 51st state taunts, has actually been more effective than previously thought, according to new data.

Canada wants to build data centres that are not just physically located here, but controlled here — a distinction experts say could determine whether the country can reduce its dependence on U.S. tech giants and keep Canadian data subject to Canadian rules.

A continuing care organization in Nova Scotia has rescinded job offers it had been extending to refugees for more than two years, leaving the displaced people without a path out of some of the largest refugee camps in the world. They were invited to come to Canada through a federal program, but the organization says…

The International Cricket Council issued notice to Cricket Canada that its funding was frozen effective immediately due to concerns over its governance system and a lack of financial oversight.

OTTAWA — Nikita Anatolyevich Mishin, a Russian billionaire Canada says is an oligarch associated with Vladimir Putin, is suing the federal government to be removed from the country’s sanctions list. In a lawsuit filed last week, Mishin argues that his addition in 2024 to Canada’s list of people sanctioned due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…