Author: The Canadian Press
TORONTO — The Korean pop group BTS is preparing to play its first of two Toronto stadium shows this weekend. Fans, known as the Army, began flocking to Rogers Stadium as early as 3 p.m. Many are donning Arirang world tour merch and jerseys with their favourite members’ name embroidered on them. The boy band […]
TORONTO — Toronto police say a suspect is dead after an officer fired their gun during an altercation in the north end of the city. Police say they were called to an area near Wilson and King High avenues Saturday afternoon after receiving reports of a damaged car driving erratically. The vehicle later crashed and […]
TORONTO — Unifor and General Motors have agreed on tentative labour contracts for more than 4,600 autoworkers. Unifor National President Lana Payne says the agreements deliver strong increases in wages and benefits for workers at GM facilities in Ontario, including the Oshawa assembly plant, the CAMI facility in Ingersoll as well as operations in St. […]
Modern vehicles have become complex digital hubs that constantly track and record what you do. Those are the findings published in a new report by Quebec’s committee on ethics in science and technology. The 64-page report identified 12 major privacy risks, including cybersecurity, location tracking and unfair insurance practices. Cameras from connected vehicles can also […]
VANCOUVER — Growing up in Chatham, Ont., Bridget Carleton couldn’t imagine playing professional basketball in Canada. This season, she’s getting the chance. “It’s surreal,” the Portland Fire forward said before her team took on the Toronto Tempo in Vancouver on Friday. “I would never have imagined this when I was a kid growing up in […]
NIAGARA FALLS — The largest collective move of captive whales is getting closer to completion, with a fourth cohort leaving Marineland on Friday night. The park says a team of specialists lifted three belugas – males named Cyprus, Jasper and Xavier – into tanks earlier in the evening, to be loaded onto a plane bound […]
TORONTO — Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen says his experiences in space left him forever changed and he wants to spend his time post-retirement from the Canadian Space Agency pushing the domestic space sector forward. Hansen, who became the first Canadian to venture to the moon and the first non-American to travel beyond low Earth orbit […]
TORONTO — Ontarians now have a clearer picture of the choices they’ll face at the ballot box this fall. Would-be candidates had until 2 p.m. to register for the Oct. 26 vote, though some early birds — including mayoral hopefuls in Toronto and Mississauga, Ont. — began making their pitches in earnest long before today’s […]
TORONTO — Dylan Cease has been painting the corners of strike zones all season. But the Toronto Blue Jays ace enjoys working on canvases just as much. The Art Gallery of Ontario will be showing his artwork “Eve of Toronto (2026)” in Walker Court, the gallery’s central atrium, starting Tuesday. A limited-edition collection featuring the […]
MONTRÉAL — A Parti Québécois government would abolish public health agency Santé Québec to invest more in direct care for the public. Party leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon called the agency a bureaucratic monster in a press conference. His party wants to use the savings to strengthen primary care and access to care through local community […]