Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Daulton Varsho was just trying to make contact — “short and sweet to the ball” he later said — but he ended up having the biggest hit of the Toronto Blue Jays’ season. Varsho launched a grand slam in the sixth inning to lift the Blue Jays over the Boston Red Sox 6-1 […]

TORONTO — Baseball fans in Canada should not expect a repeat of a deal that allowed Sportsnet to air a simulcast of Apple TV’s Friday Night Baseball broadcast that featured the Toronto Blue Jays last week. As a result of the agreement, the streamer was given the rights for Friday’s game between the Blue Jays […]

TORONTO — Daulton Varsho’s grand slam in the sixth inning lifted the Blue Jays over the Boston Red Sox 6-1 on Thursday night as Toronto moved one step closer to winning the American League East Division title. George Springer had a two-run homer in the same inning as Toronto (91-68) reduced its magic number to […]

Police in Wisconsin say a man from Ontario was killed in what’s believed to be a drive-by shooting. The Sheboygan Falls police department says 32-year-old Giovanni Michael Robinson was found with a fatal gunshot wound early Wednesday in the small city. Police say Robinson was pronounced dead at the scene and their preliminary investigation suggests […]

TORONTO — Baseball fans in Canada should not expect a repeat of a deal that allowed Sportsnet to air a simulcast of Apple TV’s Friday Night Baseball broadcast that featured the Toronto Blue Jays last week. As a result of the agreement, the streamer was given the rights for this Friday’s game between the Blue […]

The lawyer for a Lindsay, Ont., man who is charged with assaulting an alleged home intruder says “all options” will be discussed with Crown attorneys as they review the evidence in the case. The matter was briefly addressed in a Lindsay courtroom today and adjourned to Dec. 18. Jeremy David McDonald is facing assault charges […]

VAUGHAN — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the situation at Marineland is “terrible” for the 30 belugas that remain there, the last captive whales in Canada. Marineland recently requested export permits from the federal government to move all of its belugas out of the country. Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson says the government has yet to […]

VAUGHAN — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government will introduce legislation next month to ban the use of speed cameras across the province. Ford has been bemoaning the cameras in recent weeks as a “cash grab,” suggesting they don’t work to slow traffic and are only used by some municipalities to generate revenue. A […]

Curling Canada is expanding regional high-performance training hubs to Victoria, Okotoks, Alta., Moose Jaw, Sask., and Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont. Clubs in those communities join Winnipeg, in its second year after a pilot project, and long-established training centres in Calgary and Edmonton to create a network that can mimic arena ice conditions, offer technology to enhance shotmaking […]

Mounties in Ontario have made seven arrests in what they say is one of the largest known dark web drug trafficking operations in Canadian history. The RCMP says the investigation began after a “takedown” of a dark web marketplace by German authorities, who contacted the force about several alleged Canadian-based users linked to drug trafficking. […]