Author: The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Katherine Sebov sensed tension on the other side of the court. The underdog Canadian wild-card entry was up a surprising 4-1 in the first set of her National Bank Open second-round match against Marta Kostyuk. Sebov had already secured two break points in an early salvo that rocked the tournament’s No. 10 seed, […]
TORONTO — Quarterback Chad Kelly and Canadian linebacker Cameron Judge will both be available to the Toronto Argonauts when they host the Calgary Stampeders on Thursday night. Kelly, 32, suffered a neck injury in Toronto’s 26-12 road win over the B.C. Lions on July 25. Following a bye week, the Argos (3-4) resumed practising Sunday, […]
TORONTO — Canada is down to two hopefuls in the National Bank Open women’s singles draw. Marta Kostyuk recovered from a rocky start to defeat Toronto’s Katherine Sebov 7-6 (4), 6-0 in second-round action Tuesday. Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., opens her tournament as the No. 30 seed against Renata Zarazua on Wednesday, while wild-card […]
Two Ontario municipalities have declared states of emergency due to major flooding in the Niagara Region. St. Catharines and the nearby town of Lincoln both issued the declarations Monday after back-to-back storms dumped a combined 250 millimetres of rain on parts of the region in a single week. Officials in St. Catharines say the “historic […]
TORONTO — One person is dead after a fire at an apartment building in Toronto’s east end. Firefighters say they were called to a fire in a residential unit on the 16th floor of a building near Neilson Road and McLevin Avenue shortly before 8 a.m. Deputy Fire Chief Paul Fitzgerald says one person was […]
TORONTO — New Visa data suggests the FIFA World Cup brought a rise in spending among consumers in Canadian host cities. The credit card company says match day spending rose as much as 24.6 per cent in Toronto and 12.7 per cent in Vancouver, when compared with the same days a year ago. Toronto saw […]
TORONTO — Bruce MacLeod never thought he would forget his own birthday. But a couple days after a heart valve replacement in February 2025, he did. “It was strange. It was just out of reach, like, if I reached a little further, I could have pulled those memories back, but I was unsuccessful at the […]
TORONTO — Toronto Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins believes his struggling club improved its roster after a blended trade deadline that saw him add proven starting pitchers Jose Soriano and Spencer Arrighetti, and subtract Daulton Varsho and Jeff Hoffman on Monday. Atkins took the blame for the Blue Jays’ disappointing 2026 season, a year […]
NIAGARA FALLS — Seven more whales are on the move from Marineland, headed to a new home at an aquarium in the United States. Marineland says in a statement that it has begun the second phase of its whale relocation plan, just weeks after successfully transferring six belugas to Shedd Aquarium in Chicago and SeaWorld […]
A few months after Artemis II’s lunar flyby, another Canadian astronaut is preparing for a mission in space. The Canadian Space Agency’s Joshua Kutryk is one of four members assigned to NASA’s SpaceX Crew 13 mission. The crew will spend six months at the International Space Station to conduct health experiments and maintenance work. Here […]