OTTAWA — A brand of lean ground beef is being recalled because of possible E. coli contamination. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the Good Boucher brand beef was sold in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and P.E.I., but may have also been distributed in other provinces and territories. The agency says the recall…

North Korea has hit out at the US for stepping up sanctions against its regime, warning that it could force a return to “exchanges of fire” and block the path to nuclear disarmament forever.  Pyongyang’s statement, cautioning that the US policy of “maximum pressure” would be its “greatest miscalculation”, follows Washington’s decision last week to…

MONTREAL — The growth of the gig economy is making it easier for Canadians to earn extra cash driving for Uber, renting out their homes on Airbnb or making crafts to sell on Etsy, but people new to the side-hustle game may be in for an eye opener when it comes to tax season, say…

For a long time, Pokémon has been playing it safe. In two decades the main series really hasn’t changed that much, instead retreating into a kind of calculable routine. New, main series Pokémon RPGs come out every couple of years: each time there’s two of them, each time there’s probably an enhanced version – either…

President Donald Trump has declared that US troops will stay in Syria to fight Isis "remnants", apparently backtracking on his promise of hasty withdrawal. The president, cooped up in the White House on New Year’s Eve while his wife Melania rang in the new year at Mar-a-Lago without him, issued a volley of tweets yesterday…

Some of the key lessons I’ve found helpful in my career, I’ve learned from my professors. One of them is my economics professor from graduate school. She completed her doctoral degree in economics at Harvard at a time when there were few women in her class, and has since risen to the top of her…

Talks in Sweden between Yemen’s warring parties on Thursday led to a major breakthrough in blunting a devastating war that has killed thousands and driven the country to famine, with both sides agreeing on a ceasefire in a key port that acts as a lifeline for millions. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced that the Iran-linked…

Five years after a British yachtsmen was murdered in St Lucia, renovation chaos at the Caribbean island’s criminal court means there is still no date set for the trial of his alleged killers.      Roger Pratt, 63, was beaten until he suffered brain damage and pushed over the side of his boat and left…

Bad news, renters who have pets: A solid majority of Canadians believes landlords should have the right to evict tenants with animals. A new survey from Angus Reid found only 37 per cent of respondents agreed that landlords should not be able to refuse to rent to people with animals. Sixty-three per cent sided with…

A suspected British drug lord goes on trial on Monday in Paris for allegedly masterminding a plot to flood Europe with cocaine. Nottingham-born Robert Dawes, 46, denies charges that he ran an operation that smuggled 1.3 tons of cocaine, worth £45 million, to France on a flight from Venezuela in 2013. Two other Britons, named…