Courting votes in the GTA, the Liberal and Conservative leaders were forced to clarify their stances Tuesday on two issues that have quickly emerged as urgent and polarizing — the Afghanistan crisis and mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations.

The Conservative campaign believes it has dodged an attempt by the Liberals to use the issue of mandatory vaccinations as a political wedge.

Discrimination against visible and religious minorities in Canada has been hotly debated during the year leading up to this summer’s federal election, but the issue gets scant mention in the campaign platform released by the Conservative party this...

Can Liberals overcome accusations they’re pandering to the LGBTQ community? Can Conservatives be trusted to take action on LGBTQ measures?

Teachers, doctors, nurses and other public employees will face vaccination mandates as Premier Doug Ford take a harder line in the fight against COVID-19.

Ehsan Saadat feels lucky to have resettled in Canada just before Kabul fell to the Taliban. He had to keep his escape a secret and couldn’t even bid farewell to his eight siblings till he and his family arrived safely at the Canadian embassy.

Unvaccinated Ontarians are ending up in hospital with COVID-19 at a rate nearly 20 times that of fully vaccinated individuals and in the last week have been about 70 times more likely to end up in intensive care, a Star analysis of provincial data ha...

The results of the online registration showed that 86 per cent of both elementary and secondary students reported to the board that they will be attending class in-person when school begins in September, according to data released by the TDSB Tuesday...

Only one public health unit has been publicly posting the percentage of students vaccinated with first and second doses at individual high schools. But other data can help families get a better picture.

Const. Matthew Brewer, whose actions a judge once called “obvious police brutality,” has twice been criminally convicted — once following an impaired driving crash and once on a firearm offence involving an incident with his spouse. His defence...

Meanwhile, the Biden administration has decided most Americans should get a coronavirus booster vaccination eight months after they received their second shot.