Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — History will be made tonight when the Toronto Tempo host the Washington Mystics in their first-ever regular-season game. Toronto is one of two expansion teams joining the WNBA for its 30th season, coming in alongside the Portland Fire. Kia Nurse headlines the Tempo squad, and while the veteran guard hails from nearby Hamilton, […]

TORONTO — Consular officials are on their way to the Canary Islands to meet with four Canadians on board a deadly hantavirus-stricken cruise ship. The federal government says three people with connections to the cruise are isolating at home in Ontario and Quebec, but they aren’t showing symptoms. Officials have not said when and where […]

TORONTO — Former U.S. president Barack Obama is in Toronto today to deliver a keynote speech at a Canadian think tank. The 44th president is set to headline Canada 2020’s gala at the Fairmont Royal York. Obama made three official visits to Canada while he was president, first coming to Ottawa in 2009 to meet […]

TORONTO — An Ontario Liberal nomination race that has seen some candidates trade jabs and question others’ community bona fides is set to culminate Saturday with members selecting their pick for an upcoming byelection. The riding of Scarborough Southwest is vacant provincially, after the former representative successfully made the jump to federal politics. A byelection […]

BROCKVILLE — Police in the eastern Ontario city of Brockville say a teen faces first-degree murder charges after three people were found dead inside a home. Officers say they responded earlier Thursday to a 911 call at a home on Cartier Court in the border city’s north end and deemed the deaths suspicious. Investigators later […]

TORONTO — The Ontario government is appointing an administrator to run Conestoga College after an audit discovered “significant financial misuse and governance failings” at the Kitchener, Ont., institution. Colleges and Universities Minister Nolan Quinn said Linda Franklin is taking over as administrator immediately, and the college’s board of governors has been relieved of its duties. […]

FREDERICTON — The RCMP say several raids last month across three provinces were linked to a wider investigation involving transnational organized crime. However, police did not give details about the operation in their statement today to The Canadian Press. They said RCMP carried out several search warrants on April 26 in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick […]

TORONTO — Kia Nurse is focused on her process even as she’s about to make history with the Toronto Tempo. Nurse, from Hamilton, is the only Canadian on Toronto’s roster as the Tempo prepare to host the Washington Mystics on Friday in the expansion team’s first-ever regular-season game. A three-time Olympian, Nurse knows what it’s […]

More than 100 young people from 11 First Nation and Inuit communities across Canada are gathering for an intensive dance camp in southern Ontario in a program aimed at empowering Indigenous youth. Indigenous-led non-profit Outside Looking In is hosting the youth at Tim Hortons Foundation Camp in Brant, Ont., as part of a national program […]

SUDBURY — A boil water advisory is in place in Sudbury, Ont., and surrounding areas after coliform bacteria were detected in the public water supply, according to a health official. Public Health Sudbury & Districts is warning all residents in Sudbury, New Sudbury and Falconbridge to bring tap water to a roiling boil for at […]