Author: The Canadian Press

OSHAWA — Police say they’ve arrested and charged a second suspect in the fatal stabbing of a 44-year-old man in Oshawa, Ont. Durham regional police say officers were called to the area of Park Road South and John Street in the early hours of Dec. 23 and found the man, who later died in hospital. […]

Indigenous Services Canada says the evacuation of 500 vulnerable people from a remote First Nation in northern Ontario will happen “as early as possible,” as the community deals with failures in its water supply and sewage systems. The federal department says the priority evacuees from Kashechewan First Nation will be taken to Timmins and Kapuskasing […]

Ontario’s alcohol and gaming regulator says FanDuel Canada is facing a $350,000 fine after it accepted bets on table tennis games that showed warning signs of suspicious betting and match-fixing then failed to report the unusual activity. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario says between Oct. 23 and Nov. 30, 2024, the betting platform […]

OTTAWA — The cancellation of a planned event at York University has led some Conservative MPs to accuse students there of attacking free speech. Conservative MP Garnett Genuis says he was denied permission to hold an event on campus on Friday. But the York University Student Centre says its decision was “not politically motivated in […]

TORONTO — The City of Toronto is proposing several measures to address the high cost of living in its budget for 2026, including a much lower property tax increase compared to previous years and caps on public transit fares. The city says the operating budget of $18.9 billion would invest in transit, emergency services and […]

TORONTO — Mike Miller and Chris Miller are together again. Chris Miller will serve as the Toronto Argonauts quarterback coach under new head coach Mike Miller, the CFL club announced Thursday. The two, who are not related, spent three seasons together as coaches with the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals, where Mike Miller was the club’s quarterback […]

TORONTO — Midfielder Samantha Chang, who captained the Vancouver Rise to the inaugural Northern Super League title in November, is joining the AFC Toronto team she helped beat in the final. It’s a homecoming for the 25-year-old midfielder, who hails from suburban Mississauga. Chang, whose Vancouver contact had expired, has not lived in her hometown […]

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal from a coalition challenging the constitutionality of legislation that opens the door to major changes at Ontario Place. The urban park on the Toronto waterfront, opened in 1971, included a theatre that showed movies on a huge screen, children’s play areas and several pavilions […]

Victims’ families will mark the six-year anniversary of the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 in Iran with events in Ontario and British Columbia today. The plane was shot down on Jan. 8, 2020 by two Iranian missiles just minutes after taking off from Tehran, killing all 176 people on board including 55 Canadian […]

OTTAWA — A man who pleaded guilty after defacing Canada’s National Holocaust Monument has received a suspended sentence and two years of probation. His lawyer says Iain Aspenlieder received credit for his time in custody and partial credit for some of the bail conditions he was under. Michael Spratt says the probation conditions stipulate his […]