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TORONTO — Sport Tourism Canada has presented the 110th Grey Cup and 2023 Grey Cup Festival with its Prestige Award as Canada’s event of the year with a budget over $1 million. A recent Sport Tourism Canada survey found the ’23 Grey Cup game and festival generated $73.5 million in economic impact in Canada.  The […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index was down almost 30 points Tuesday, led by weakness in energy and base metals, while U.S. markets also moved into the red after drifting higher for most of the day.  The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 29.76 points at 21,912.52. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was […]

TORONTO — Ontario is set to inject billions of new dollars into health care, the budget for the upcoming fiscal year shows. The province said it is investing $2 billion over three years in home care services, nearly $1-billion more for hospitals and hundreds of millions to expand primary care coverage. “Ontarians are also counting […]

TORONTO — The Ontario government tabled a budget Tuesday that forecast a ballooning deficit, investments in the home and community care sector, and support for a first-of-its-kind medical school. Here are the highlights:  BALLOONING DEFICIT Ontario is projecting a deficit of $9.8 billion in the coming fiscal year, almost double what was projected in its […]

TORONTO — Ontario is delaying its path to balance as lethargic economic growth drags the province’s books further into the red, with a $9.8-billion budget deficit projected for the coming fiscal year. Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy is acknowledging the challenging economic times, saying life has rarely been this expensive, but the budget he is presenting […]

TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors were still largely in the dark a day after it was confirmed that the NBA was investigating backup centre Jontay Porter for allegedly fixing games. “I was just praying for him,” said small forward Bruce Brown on Tuesday after Raptors practice. “Obviously, you don’t want to see somebody go through […]

TORONTO — The wife of a man accused of running over a Toronto police constable told the officer who pulled her out of the car at gunpoint that she didn’t know they were police, court heard Tuesday. Aaida Shaikh, who was eight months pregnant at the time, was crying and appeared scared when she was […]

Toronto police say they are not investigating Raptors backup centre Jontay Porter, who is the subject of an NBA gambling probe. The league is looking into whether Porter purposely left two games early to impact prop bets involving him. Both games where Porter allegedly fixed the prop bets took place in Toronto. Although online gambling […]

It’s spring, but a winter-like heavy snowfall is expected in Thunder Bay, Ont., and vast areas across northern Ontario on the second day of a three-day storm system rolling through the region. Environment Canada says the region has been forecast to see roughly 25 to 45 centimetres of snow between Sunday and Wednesday evening. The […]

TORONTO — Ten programmers say they quit the Hot Docs film festival en masse as a result of what they describe as a toxic workplace. In a joint statement released the day the documentary fest announced its 2024 lineup, they say the organization failed to respect protocol and dismissed or diminished team members’ voices. They […]