Author: The Canadian Press

Prosecutors have dropped the charges against a jeweller accused of knowingly receiving large amounts of gold stolen in a massive heist at Toronto’s Pearson airport. In a brief court hearing today, Crown attorney Jelena Vlacic said they made the decision to stop the proceedings against Ali Raza based on new evidence. Vlacic said that evidence […]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford has given Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow his seal of approval today in the midst of her bid for re-election. Ford stopped short of giving her a full, explicit endorsement, but spoke about her in glowing terms when asked if he would weigh into the mayoral race. He says the […]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is fully on board with the prime minister’s plan to see private investors take over operations at Canada’s four largest airports, including Toronto Pearson. Ford says not only is the idea “fabulous,” but it should be expanded to include Toronto’s island airport. The premier has been pushing […]

While the jury’s still out on a proposal to replace the Ontario bar exam with a skills-based course, law schools in British Columbia have made the switch, with the first batch of students set to experience the new system this fall. B.C. is the sixth province to scrap the bar exam in favour of a […]

TORONTO — A new study suggests emergency department visits for gambling disorders have doubled in Ontario since the expansion of online gambling and legalization of single-event sports betting a few years ago. The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences says it analyzed data from January 2012 to September 2025 and found an increase in gambling-related emergency […]

Mississauga city council has voted unanimously to put a one-year freeze on new data centre projects. The moratorium is framed as a chance for the city to study what guardrails to place around those projects as the artificial intelligence boom fuels demand for larger, more energy-intensive facilities. Mississauga joins neighbouring Oakville, which last month passed […]

TORONTO — It wasn’t just that the Toronto Blue Jays lost badly. The timing was bad too. Alejandro Kirk’s RBI single was all the offence Toronto could muster in a 10-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday. The defeat put the Blue Jays two games back of Cleveland for the third and final wild-card […]

The boom in artificial intelligence has put Ontario municipalities on the front lines of a major debate over how to regulate a new wave of large, energy-hungry data centres. Several municipalities have voted in recent months on temporary data centre moratoriums while they study possible guardrails, and at least one has amended its bylaws to […]

Mississauga city council is set to vote today on a one-year data centre moratorium. The city is the latest in Ontario to consider a pause as it studies what guardrails it could place on energy-intensive data centres fuelling the artificial intelligence boom. The proposed citywide moratorium would apply to data centres with energy demands over […]

TORONTO — Spencer Torkelson smashed a three-run homer as part of a four-run inning and the Detroit Tigers routed the Toronto Blue Jays 10-1 on Tuesday. Max Clark had a one-run double earlier in the fourth inning as Detroit (72-79) won its sixth straight. Riley Greene and John Peck had RBI singles in the fifth […]