Author: The Canadian Press
TORONTO — A documentary chronicling the Wet’suwet’en people’s resistance to pipeline construction on their ancestral lands has won the $50,000 Rogers Audience Award for best Canadian documentary at the Hot Docs film festival. “Yintah” won the prize as the 11-day festival in Toronto wrapped up on Sunday night. The documentary, directed by Jennifer Wickham, Brenda […]
TORONTO — Carley Fortune’s books are written with an editor’s eye for detail. The romance novelist, one of the most successful to come out of Canada in recent memory, fell in love with the genre when she was working in journalism, steering the Canadian division of an online publication for young women and editing articles […]
TORONTO — The Speaker of Ontario’s legislature says politicians, staff and visitors will be allowed to enter the building while wearing a keffiyeh, but he is upholding his ban on the scarf inside the legislative chamber. Sarah Jama, who sits as an independent after being booted from the NDP caucus last year, put on a […]
TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index was up more than 200 points in late-morning trading as higher commodity prices helped boost energy and base metal stocks in a broad-based rally across the Toronto market. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 204.22 points at 22,151.63. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 51.62 […]
TORONTO — The University of Toronto says it sees “a way forward” after meeting with student protesters behind a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus. The encampment set up in an area known as King’s College Circle last Thursday is calling on the university to disclose ties with the Israeli government and divest from Israeli companies. Though […]
TORONTO — When talent search platform Plum noticed ChatGPT sending ripples through the tech world and beyond, it decided to turn right to the source to lay out how staff could and couldn’t use the generative artificial intelligence chatbot. ChatGPT, which can turn simple text instructions into poems, essays, emails and more, churned out a […]
TORONTO (AP) — Natalie Spooner scored twice in Toronto’s 5-2 win over Ottawa in the league’s regular-season finale on Sunday night. Ottawa’s playoff hopes in the PWHL’s inaugural season were crushed by the loss as the club needed a regulation win to reach the postseason. Spooner scored a go-ahead goal for Toronto with 5:43 left […]
TORONTO — Natalie Spooner scored twice in Toronto’s 5-2 win over Ottawa in the Professional Women’s Hockey League regular-season finale Sunday. Ottawa’s playoff hopes in the PWHL’s inaugural season were crushed by the loss as the club needed a regulation win to reach the post-season. Spooner scored a go-ahead goal for Toronto with 5:43 left […]
TORONTO — Hundreds of Nestle workers walked off the job in Toronto on Sunday after their union said the company wouldn’t budge on pension improvements. Unifor issued a statement saying its 461 members who work as machine operators, bar packers, shippers and receivers, general labourers and in the skilled trades at the Toronto Nestle plant […]
TORONTO — The father of a three-month-old boy who died alongside his grandparents in a wrong-way highway crash last week says his grief is agonizing. Gokulnath Manivannan says the pain of losing his son Aditya Vivaan and his parents is far worse than the physical injuries he suffered in the crash with a van that […]