Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Max Scherzer said Tuesday he hopes to be able to play catch in the next few days following a cortisone injection to treat his sore right thumb. The three-time Cy Young award winner visited a hand specialist in the U.S. on Monday and received the injection before returning […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index rose more than 100 points while U.S. markets were mixed after a choppy day of trading, the day before U.S. President Donald Trump is set to enact tariffs on a wide range on imports. “The markets today really are in wait and see mode, and they seem to be […]

TORONTO — TSN president Stewart Johnston has emerged as the leading candidate to replace Randy Ambrosie as CFL commissioner. Two league sources requesting anonymity told The Canadian Press on Tuesday the CFL would decide upon Ambrosie’s successor in time for its global/Canadian drafts April 29. Both suggest Johnston is the league’s top choice to assume […]

TORONTO — More than two months of back-and-forth, false starts and changing plans in the trade war launched by the United States has made it hard to know what’s in or out. Wednesday is set to be another big day for tariffs as the latest pause in U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to add a […]

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have traded minor league right-handed pitcher Nick Robertson to the Houston Astros for right-handed pitching prospect Edinson Batista. Robertson hasn’t pitched a big league game this season, while the 22-year-old Batista has never pitched in the majors. Batista had a 6-6 record with a 5.01 earned-run average over 26 […]

TORONTO — Apartments, health centres and even pickleball courts may be coming to your local mall after Hudson’s Bay departs. Retail and real estate experts say the closure of most of the 355-year-old company’s department stores offers a chance to reimagine the country’s most sought-after and high-traffic spaces in malls. “I think it’s a massive […]

OTTAWA — Controversial statements from the past came back to haunt two major parties on the federal election trail this week, costing each a candidate. A Liberal incumbent bowed out of the campaign late Monday after suggesting that another candidate be turned over to Chinese officials, while the Conservatives dropped a nominee who joked that […]

TORONTO — Parents of children with special needs who have run away from school, the Ontario Autism Coalition and the province’s three opposition parties are jointly calling for more supports to ensure kids’ safety. Chris Walters says his four-year-old daughter escaped from her Hamilton school last month and made it three blocks away before she […]

TORONTO — Canada’s literary institutions are banding together on the eve of an expected announcement about counter-tariffs on U.S. imports that could include books. Booksellers big and small, libraries and publishers are advocating for books to be left off the list of American-made items subject to tariffs from the Canadian government, saying such a move […]

TORONTO — First Quantum Minerals Ltd. says it has agreed to discontinue arbitration proceedings it launched before the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Court of Arbitration related to its Cobre Panama mine. The company has also agreed to suspend arbitration under the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement. The Toronto-based miner suspended production at the open-pit copper […]