Author: The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — The lawyer for a man accused of accessing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s banking data says he is still awaiting some information from the Crown in the case. Ron Guertin, counsel for former Royal Bank of Canada employee Ibrahim El-Hakim, told an Ontario court Wednesday the matter is “rather involved” and he expects disclosure […]

TORONTO — Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins said Wednesday that shortstop Bo Bichette is making progress on a daily basis, but there’s no firm date for his return to the lineup. Bichette missed the last three weeks of the regular season with a left knee sprain. “It’s day to day and our staff is […]

Local officials and residents of a northern Ontario community are gathering today to call on the provincial and federal governments to “not point fingers at each other” and work with the community to keep a paper mill from closing. Earlier this week, Kap Paper in Kapuskasing announced it will begin winding down operations after failing […]

The City of Toronto has cleared a homeless encampment at Dufferin Grove Park for a second time in a few days after a small group of people rebuilt their camp that was removed on Friday. Michael DeForge, who was at the park today to support encampment residents, says a group of Toronto police officers and […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s environment ministry says it will miss its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target, but the auditor general says today the province will in fact likely miss that target by an even wider margin. Auditor general Shelley Spence says in a report that the government has projected that it will miss its 2030 […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s auditor general says the provincial labour minister’s office has not been using a fair or transparent process to dole out money from a $2.5-billion skills training fund. The Skills Development Fund gives money to organizations for projects that help hire, train or retrain workers and the auditor says Minister David Piccini’s office […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s auditor general says the province isn’t on track to meet its targets on child-care fees, number of spaces created or percentage of qualified staff within the $10-a-day system. Auditor general Shelley Spence’s office is releasing four special reports today, including one looking at Ontario’s progress in implementing the national child-care program. While […]

Ottawa has denied a request from Marineland to send its remaining beluga whales to China. Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson says the federal government will not grant an export permit to ship the 30 whales to the Chimelong Ocean Kingdom aquarium. More coming. Liam Casey, The Canadian Press

TORONTO — The Stratford Festival has named Jonathan Church as its next artistic director. The festival says he will succeed Antoni Cimolino, who recently announced that 2026 will be his final season in the role. Church has been signed for an initial term of five years and officially assumes the role of artistic director on […]

TORONTO — A new climate conference is kicking off in Toronto that’s aiming to highlighting Canada’s clean tech and climate innovation sectors. Toronto Climate Week comes on the heels of Climate Week NYC, which bills itself as the largest climate gathering outside of the United Nations climate conference. Becky Park-Romanovsky, founder and executive director of […]