Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Ontario is giving colleges and universities billions in new funding, while lifting a seven-year tuition fee freeze and cutting back on the amount of student assistance grants. The moves are in response to a post-secondary financial crisis, following years of low levels of government funding, stagnant domestic tuition levels since 2019 and sharply […]

TORONTO — The sexual assault trial of Canadian auto parts magnate Frank Stronach is set to begin in Toronto today after more than a week of delay. The judge-alone trial was initially scheduled to begin early last week but Stronach’s lawyer asked for more time to prepare after receiving what she described as a large […]

TORONTO — The fastest way to get into a long-term care home in Ontario is by going to the hospital first, advocates say. The situation is particularly acute in Toronto, where the combination of an increasing and aging population and the loss of nearly 700 beds due to nursing home closures has meant that many […]

DUNEDIN — Shane Bieber is trying to remind himself that he’s had a longer wait to start a Major League Baseball season before. Bieber spoke to the media on Wednesday, a day after the Toronto Blue Jays announced that he would not be ready to start the season as he struggles with forearm fatigue. The […]

Travellers are returning to Atlantic Canada from Cuba amid an oil crisis on the Caribbean island. A WestJet flight from Cayo Coco landed at Halifax’s Stanfield International Airport this afternoon. WestJet and other major Canadian airlines are returning travellers to Canada but have suspended commercial flights to the country because of aviation fuel shortages at […]

ORANGEVILLE — A truck driver has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving charges in a crash that killed a former Canadian Olympic figure skater in Melancthon Township, north of Shelburne, Ont. nearly three years ago. Court staff in Orangeville, Ont., confirm Sukhwinder Sidhu pleaded guilty Tuesday to dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing bodily […]

GUELPH — Guelph police are asking people to avoid giving their children old phones to play with after an unregistered phone called 911 nearly 130 times on Sunday. Police say the same old phone called the emergency number at least 129 times between 4:40 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. They say dispatchers were able to hear […]

BRAMPTON — A man sought on a Canada-wide warrant in a Toronto-area homicide has been arrested. Peel regional police say the 41-year-old suspect was wanted for first-degree murder and was arrested and charged on Monday. He is being held for a bail hearing. Police say the charge stems from a shooting in Brampton, Ont., in […]

TORONTO — What started as a throwaway joke between two friends has ballooned into a bit they’ve committed to for nearly half their lives. For Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol, that joke is Nirvanna the Band — a fictional Toronto duo whose eternal, doomed quest to play local venue the Rivoli spawned a guerrilla web […]

DUNEDIN — Outfielder Anthony Santander of the Toronto Blue Jays will have labrum surgery on his left shoulder and is expected to miss five to six months of the 2026 season, manager John Schneider announced Tuesday. Schneider provided the update when he met with reporters. But the bad news didn’t stop there. Right-hander Shane Bieber […]