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McDonald’s needs kids more than today’s kids need McDonald’s.
Perhaps no one knows that better than CEO Don Thompson, who was seriously put on the hot seat by a 9-year-old girl at Thursday’s annual shareholder’s meeting in Oak Brook, Ill.
For a few moments, Hannah Robertson — whose mother, Kia, is a kid’s nutritional activist and creator […]

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OTTAWA—A Mountie who was once part of the famed Musical Ride is suing the national police force, alleging she was sexually assaulted, harassed, repeatedly doused in cold water and dragged through horse manure by colleagues.
In a statement of claim filed in Ontario Superior Court, Staff Sgt. Caroline O’Farrell and her lawyers say the cruel treatment […]

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A project at Bridgeton Landfill that was supposed to intensify odors was postponed a day because of rain and the potential for strong storms Monday afternoon.
Republic Services Inc. was scheduled to begin removing sections of reinforced concrete pipe on Monday. The project is part of the company’s strategy to reduce odors related to smoldering deep […]

If you have any shopping planned for this weekend, you’d best get it done before Monday when retail stores around the city will either be closed or operating on holiday hours. Here is what will be open and closed on the holiday:
The Eaton Centre will be open on Victoria Day from 10 a.m. to 6 […]

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said intervention won

The sector lost about 6,000 jobs overall, according to the Labor Department’s jobs report. This was largely due to a decline in hiring for non-residential buildings or public works projects like roads or sewer plants. Combined, these two areas lost 19,700 jobs.

Meanwhile, home builders and their subcontractors added 13,300 workers, even more […]

Intersection by intersection, Mayor Rob Ford’s Toronto is quietly becoming friendlier to pedestrians.
Since January 2010, nearly a year before Ford took office, city transportation workers have been modifying hundreds of traffic signals per year to give people more time to cross the street.
Toronto previously required pedestrians to walk at 1.2 metres per second to […]

India cut interest rates for a third straight meeting to revive growth, extending the only reduction in borrowing costs among major emerging nations this year.
Governor Duvvuri Subbarao lowered the repurchase rate to 7.25 percent from 7.50 percent, the Reserve Bank of India said in Mumbai today, as 33 of 40 analysts in a Bloomberg […]

The stock market fell the most in two weeks as the outlook for the economy grew dimmer.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 138 points to close at 14,701 Wednesday. The Standard & Poor’s 500 dropped 14 to 1,582. The Nasdaq lost 29 points to 3,299.
All three indexes fell 0.9 percent.
Small-company stocks fell more than the […]

In September 2010, the Ontario government reduced the medical benefits you could get under your car insurance policy for injuries suffered in a motor vehicle accident.
The $100,000 limit for treatments not covered by the health care system was reduced to $50,000. But for accident victims who had minor injuries, such as strains, sprains and whiplash, […]