Author: The Canadian Press

A blast of wintry weather across a swath of Canada is expected to disrupt commutes and bring possible power outages as a long line of warnings stretch from Edmonton to the shores of Lake Ontario. Environment Canada says the bulk of the notices are made up of snowfall warnings and in southern Ontario they turn […]

Officials say a hydro worker in Toronto is dead after he was injured while working on an electrical vault along the city’s harbourfront. Toronto police say the man was in his 30s. Fire officials say they responded to the call at 1:54 a.m. along Queens Quay near Rees Street where they found an injured worker […]

A long line of weather warnings stretches from the Edmonton area eastward to the shores of Lake Ontario. Environment Canada says the bulk of the notices are made up of snowfall warnings, until you reach Southern Ontario, where they turn into freezing rain warnings. The snowfall forecast calls for accumulations of up to 30 centimetres […]

TORONTO — At this point Tyler O’Neill isn’t even trying to hit home runs on opening day, it just sort of happens. O’Neill went yard on opening day for a sixth consecutive year, adding to his Major League Baseball record set last season, to help the Baltimore Orioles crush the Toronto Blue Jays 12-2 on […]

TORONTO — A Toronto lawyer says charges have been withdrawn against three more people accused of defacing a downtown Indigo bookstore in a 2023 protest. Arash Ghiassi, who represents two people in the group of accused, says that means seven out of 11 people have seen their charges dropped in the case. Ghiassi says two […]

TORONTO (AP) — Tyler O’Neill hit a three-run home run, extending his major league record by homering for a sixth straight opening day, and the Baltimore Orioles hit a franchise record six opening day home runs to rout the Blue Jays 12-2 on Thursday. Adley Rutschman and Cedric Mullins both homered twice and Jordan Westburg […]

TORONTO — Cedric Mullins had two home runs and singled in another run for a total of five RBIs as the Baltimore Orioles routed the Toronto Blue Jays 12-2 on Thursday in Major League Baseball’s opening day. Tyler O’Neill of Burnaby, B.C., hit a three-run homer in the third inning as Baltimore (1-0) built a […]

TORONTO — Ontario RCMP announced Thursday they have charged six people and destroyed nearly 17,000 cannabis plants across three large-scale illegal grow sites in the province, part of a “complex illicit cannabis production and distribution network.” Police say an investigation began in the summer of 2022 after the Ontario Provincial Police referred the matter to […]

CAYUGA, Ont. — A trial began Thursday for two people accused in the death of a provincial police officer in 2022, with the Crown saying witnesses will testify that one of the accused fatally shot the officer before both suspects fled in a stolen vehicle, prompting a police hunt. Ontario Provincial Police Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala […]

Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to have his first phone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump in the coming days, and Trump’s commerce secretary said Canada may get some reprieve from automobile tariffs. Carney said Thursday that the president’s office reached out the previous evening to schedule a call. It would be the first […]