Author: The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Blue Jays pitching prospect Ricky Tiedemann will miss about seven to 10 more days with a sore elbow. Toronto manager John Schneider says that the 21-year-old left-hander has ulnar nerve inflammation. The diagnosis comes after Tiedemann met with team doctors earlier this week. It’s the best possible outcome after the triple-A Buffalo Bisons […]
TORONTO — William Nylander took a pass from John Tavares and wheeled towards the net. The Maple Leafs winger then deftly fed the puck against the grain on a tee for Mitch Marner to blast a one-timer from a sharp angle. The power-play sequence was only a practice drill. It was also one of many […]
TORONTO — Gains in base metal stocks helped lift Canada’s main stock index on Friday while U.S. markets also rose, led by tech stocks as the Nasdaq gained two per cent. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 83.86 points at 21,969.24. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 153.86 points at 38,239.66. […]
Toronto police say one of their officers is facing charges of perjury and attempting to obstruct justice. They say the officer began an inappropriate personal relationship with a member of the public during the course of his duties in December 2020. The force says that in June last year, the officer gave investigators false, misleading […]
TORONTO — Maple Leafs winger William Nylander appears on course to suit for the first time in this spring’s Stanley Cup playoffs. The 27-year-old was a full participant at today’s practice after missing the first three games of Toronto’s opening-round series against the Boston Bruins with an undisclosed injury. Nylander wouldn’t say what’s kept him […]
LONDON, Ont. — Western University and picketing graduate teaching assistants have reached a tentative deal after a two-week strike. The university says the tentative agreement with Public Service Alliance Local 610 will now go before Western’s board of governors and members of the union for ratification. About 2,000 graduate teaching assistants at the London, Ont., […]
TORONTO — A year before her death in 2019, Jackie Shane decided it was finally time to tell her life story. The trailblazing transgender soul singer was a mystery ever since vanishing from the spotlight in 1971 after dominating the Toronto music scene throughout the 1960s. For decades following her retirement, the Nashville-born artist lived […]
TORONTO — A look at Emma-Jayne Wilson, Canada’s top female jockey with a record 1,875 victories: — Her mounts have won US$89,181,572. — Won the 2007 King’s Plate aboard Mike Fox. — North America’s top apprentice in 2005 after becoming the first woman to claim Woodbine’s jockey title with 175 wins and over $6.2 million […]
TORONTO — Emma-Jayne Wilson may be a Canadian thoroughbred racing trailblazer and pioneer. But she had a very good mentor. Long before Wilson established herself as Canada’s top female jockey, she received a call from American Julie Krone, the first woman to win an American Triple Crown race aboard Colonial Affair in the 1993 Belmont […]
TORONTO — Gains in the base metal stocks helped lift Canada’s main stock index in late-morning trading, while U.S. stock markets also rose. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 34.70 points at 21,920.08. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 85.79 points at 38,171.59. The S&P 500 index was up 49.94 points […]