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They're often single and not originally from Canada. They work close to full-time hours but likely bring home less than $20,000 a year. In the first Canadian study of its kind, the growth of Toronto's working-poor population has been charted, and the results are shocking: Even during times of economic prosperity the number of working people unable to make ends meets grew by 42 per cent in the GTA, a figure that shows no sign of stopping

Around the world, people are living longer and having far fewer children

Seeking a ‘Canadian exemption’ against the Buy American movement is like trying to stop a tsunami with your hands

The Week in Events

Sold-out shows are proof of people finding beauty in Charles Bradley's heartaches and pain

Comedy Central host offers brave Torontonians 15 minutes of pain

It's the end of an era as the iconic nightlife hub makes way for a condo

A van crash in Hampstead, Ont., killed 11 men last Friday, including 10 migrant workers from Latin America and a truck driver from London, Ont. Many of the victims of the crash were blood relatives from a poor neighbourhood of Lima, new arrivals to Canada who had hoped to feed their families with money from their new job.

On the outskirts of Lima, Peru, wives, cousins and grandmothers were left to ponder this week how they will now survive with families’ sole breadwinners gone. They already had little; now they had less.

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Forensic auditors are poring through Ornge’s financial records, while its mastermind is said to be holed up in his home, medicated and depressed

Theatrical adaptation of A Blessing on the Moon makes world debut

Feel the love - or deuce - at the Davis Cup’s World Group First Round at UBC

Put your watches away because there is fun around the clock this weekend

Man convicted of drug trafficking, but avoids jail term in part because his Charter rights were violated