Author: The Canadian Press
NIAGARA FALLS — Two belugas and four dolphins from Marineland are being moved today to an aquarium in Spain. This is the fifth move of whales from the shuttered theme park in Niagara Falls, Ont., as it moves all of its animals off the property. Marineland is up for sale and has said it is […]
THUNDER BAY — A 19-year-old woman has died following an afternoon car crash with a tractor-trailer in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Ontario Provincial Police say officers and paramedics responded to the crash between a passenger vehicle and tractor-trailer at Mapleward Road and Highway 11-17 around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. Officers say the woman from Thunder Bay was […]
TORONTO — Mistakes proved costly for the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night in a 5-3 loss to the surging Kansas City Royals at Rogers Centre. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. made a throwing error in Kansas City’s two-run sixth inning and Nathan Lukes was thrown out at second base to end the game after hitting a […]
TORONTO — The Kansas City Royals extended their winning streak to nine games on Tuesday night with a 5-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. Salvador Perez drove in a go-ahead run with a fifth-inning single off Toronto starter Max Scherzer (1-7). Kansas City (59-74) tacked on two unearned runs in the […]
One of the Great Lakes has become the latest target in U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada, highlighting his penchant for renaming bodies of water and landmarks. The United States is “giving serious consideration” to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, Trump wrote Tuesday in a post on his platform […]
WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) — With his trade war with Canada intensifying, U.S. President Donald Trump floated the idea of renaming Lake Ontario to become “Lake America.” America’s northern neighbors quickly panned the idea. “He can blow out his hole as much as he wants to, but it’s never going to happen, because Canadians are strong,” […]
TORONTO — Toronto police say a man has been arrested and charged in a 2022 murder after investigators released more surveillance footage of the suspect. Police say 31-year-old Ding Ping Wang was fatally shot inside a car in a plaza parking lot in the area of Midland and Passmore avenues on the night of Nov. […]
TORONTO — The bid to own one of the FIFA World Cup-themed beaver statues sprawled across an eastern downtown Toronto neighbourhood has officially closed. The online bidding on 50 beaver installations closed on Monday and received more than $170,000 in total bids. The vibrant beavers were part of an artistic scavenger hunt hosted by the […]
TORONTO — Public health officials in Toronto say they have identified a Toronto Transit Commission cooling tower as the source of a recent outbreak of legionnaires’ disease. Officials say they investigated an outbreak of six confirmed cases within about a one-kilometre radius of the intersection of Bathurst and Dupont streets. They say a cooling tower […]
TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford has toned down his rhetoric in the war of words with U.S. President Donald Trump. Ford says on CNN that it is better to bring the temperature down between the two countries as the trade war escalates. Ford says he wants a deal that will bring the cost of […]