Author: The Canadian Press

Police have identified the victim of a seemingly random fatal stabbing in Pickering, Ont., last week as an 83-year-old woman. Durham Regional Police say Eleanor Doney died after she was attacked in the area of Lynn Heights Drive and Fairport Road around 3 p.m. on May 29. Police have said she was found by a […]

Peel Region police say two men were arrested in British Columbia and charged with murder in the shooting death of a man in Mississauga, Ont., last month. Police say 51-year-old Harjeet Dhadda of Brampton, Ont., was allegedly approached by a suspect and shot multiple times in a Mississauga parking lot the morning of May 14, […]

EDMONTON — Home ice advantage will take on a whole new meaning for some Edmonton Oilers as they head into the Stanley Cup Final. Over the weekend, ice from the hometown rinks of six Oilers players was scraped into Thermoses, shipped to Edmonton and added to the Rogers Place ice sheet mix for Game 1 […]

TORONTO — A man has been charged in a string of alleged hate-motivated assaults on women at Toronto’s Union Station. Police say they received multiple reports of assaults shortly before 9 a.m. Monday. They say a man was walking through the station and assaulted several women unprovoked. Police say that after his arrest, the man […]

Two men are dead and a woman was taken to hospital after what police are calling a disturbance at a Burlington, Ont., home overnight. Ontario’s police watchdog says Halton Region officers were called to a home on Cornerstone Drive at around 12:30 a.m. The Special Investigations Unit says a man fled upstairs when officers responded […]

SASKATOON — Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Monday’s gathering of the country’s premiers to talk over nation-building projects with Prime Minister Mark Carney was the “best” they have had in the last decade. The comments amount to a lightly veiled jab at former prime minister Justin Trudeau, who frequently had frosty relations with the group, […]

THE BLUE MOUNTAINS — University of Saskatchewan basketball player Gage Grassick and Wilfrid Laurier University quarterback Taylor Elgersma have been named the 2024-25 U Sports Athletes of the Year. U Sports announced the winners of the Lois and Doug Mitchell Award at an awards program Monday. Grassick, from Prince Albert, Sask., won the Lois Mitchell […]

SASKATOON — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says today’s discussion about nation-building projects with Prime Minister Mark Carney was the best meeting of Canada’s premiers in 10 years. The provincial and territorial leaders sat down with Carney in Saskatoon today, bringing with them wish lists of projects they hope the federal government will deem to be […]

HALIFAX — Former U.S. and Toronto FC captain Michael Bradley and former Canadian international defender David Edgar have joined Canada as guest coaches under Jesse Marsch during the current FIFA international window. The Canadian team is currently in Halifax preparing for the four-team Canadian Shield Tournament that opens Saturday in Toronto with Canada taking on […]

TORONTO — A visit by the woeful Athletics came at an ideal time for the Toronto Blue Jays. Canada’s lone big-league team was in a tailspin before finding its form last week. Toronto has won five in a row and sat a half-game out of an American League wild-card spot entering Monday’s games. The Blue […]