Author: The Canadian Press
TORONTO — It seems like Brittney Sykes should have worked on her negotiating skills during a two-month stint on the Toronto Tempo’s injured list. Sykes had 15 points and five assists in 21 minutes of play in Toronto’s 101-95 loss to the Indiana Fever on Tuesday. It was her first game back in the Tempo’s […]
TORONTO — If you’ve walked around Toronto, you might have noticed plaques scattered around the city. Some are new, some are old, and Heritage Toronto is trying to encourage people to stop and give them a read — through a weekly short-form video series. In a social media campaign dubbed ‘Plaque Fridays,’ they zero in […]
TORONTO — Kelsey Mitchell led all scorers with 29 points as the Indiana Fever held on for a 101-95 win over the Toronto Tempo on Tuesday. Superstar Caitlin Clark had 24 points and seven assists as Indiana (25-13) won its fifth in a row. Dozens of fans at Scotiabank Arena wore Clark jerseys. Brittney Sykes […]
SMITHS FALLS — Provincial police say they have uncovered a third set of human remains belonging to a missing person at a property southwest of Ottawa. Officers say that earlier this month, they found the remains of Lawrence Bertrim, a man from Smiths Falls who disappeared in 2022 at the age of 42. Police say […]
CALEDON — RCMP have issued “duty to warn” letters to at least two Canadian Sikh activists, telling them their lives are under threat for their involvement in trying to create an independent Sikh state in India. Police have issued the notices to Inderjeet Singh Gosal of Caledon, Ont., and Manjinder Singh from Abbotsford, B.C., telling […]
An organization representing dozens of northern Ontario First Nations says a man who threw a trailer hitch at an Indigenous woman from a moving car in Thunder Bay, Ont., has been granted full parole, a decision it calls “incomprehensible.” Nishnawbe Aski Nation says the Parole Board of Canada’s decision to approve Brayden Bushby’s release comes […]
TORONTO — With a 12-game winless skid finally in the past, Toronto FC has some rare momentum as it looks to make a push for the Major League Soccer post-season. TFC can record its first winning streak in over four months Wednesday with a victory over Charlotte FC at BMO Field. The matchup is sandwiched […]
Ontario’s police watchdog says a provincial police officer was arrested and charged with sexual assault, a day after another officer with the same detachment was charged with similar offences. The Special Investigations Unit says the alleged assault on a woman happened in December of 2025 in the Township of Tay and Ontario Provincial Police reported […]
Ontario is spending $10 million on six programs to give people training in the skilled trades as part of its Skills Development Fund. The fund gained notoriety after the province’s auditor general found last year that the way the government had been selecting successful applications and disbursing money from the $2.5-billion fund was not fair, […]
TORONTO — Ontario will soon be putting out a call for proposals to create or expand 78 primary care teams, as it works toward a goal of attaching all Ontarians to primary care by 2029. Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced today that 437,000 people have been connected to primary care since the government’s plan launched […]