Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Gabbi Kosmidis still feels shivers from watching the intensely gory 2006 horror thriller “Silent Hill” as a child. “It was an insane film for an 11-year-old to watch,” says the Toronto-based voice actor, now 30. “I loved it, but I still, to this day, have nightmares from it.” She’s now channeling that early […]

The Supreme Court of Canada is set to release its decision today about third-party election advertising rules in Ontario that limit spending. Before 2021, third parties in Ontario could spend up to $600,000 on advertising in the six months before a provincial election call. That year, Premier Doug Ford’s government stretched that restricted spending period […]

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada is expected to release unemployment figures for February today. Economists polled by Reuters expect a gain of 20,000 jobs in the month, and for the unemployment rate to have ticked higher to 6.7 per cent. RBC Economics expects the unemployment rate held steady at 6.6 per cent in February and calls […]

KELOWNA, B.C. — An off-day for Reid Carruthers at the Montana’s Brier became much busier on Thursday night. The Manitoba skip picked up the last playoff spot in Pool A when Manitoba’s Matt Dunstone edged Canada’s Brad Gushue 7-6 to earn the top seed in the nine-team group. Gushue took the second seed and Carruthers […]

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — Genc Ula put away the game-winning goal with six seconds to play as the Peterborough Petes edged the Ottawa 67’s 4-3 on Thursday in Ontario Hockey League action. Brennan Faulkner, Jonathan Melee and Brody Partridge also scored as Peterborough (17-36-8) fended off a late Ottawa rally. Petes goaltender Easton Rye made 34 […]

BRANTFORD, Ont. — The Brantford Red Sox of the Intercounty Baseball League are making all 21 of their home games free to “reverse the tariffs.” A trade war is looming over North America as U.S. President Donald Trump has twice threatened to levy steep tariffs on Canadian and Mexican products. The Red Sox say the […]

TORONTO (AP) — Natalie Spooner scored her first two goals of the season and the Toronto Sceptres beat the PWHL-leading Montreal Victoire 4-1 on Thursday night. The league MVP a year ago, Spooner has played six games since returning from a knee injury sustained in the playoffs. She scored both goals on power plays. Allie […]

OTTAWA — A federal judge has dismissed a legal challenge of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s move to prorogue Parliament. Two Nova Scotia men had asked the Federal Court to declare the current suspension of Parliament illegal because there must be a “reasonable justification” for hitting the pause button. David MacKinnon of Amherst, N.S., and Aris […]

KELOWNA, B.C. — Manitoba’s Matt Dunstone came back for a 7-6 win over Canada’s Brad Gushue on Thursday to hand the three-time defending champion his first loss at the Montana’s Brier. The result left both teams with 7-1 records in Pool A but Dunstone took the top seed since head-to-head play was the tiebreaker. Manitoba’s […]

OTTAWA — The federal cybersecurity centre says China, Russia and Iran are very likely to use tools enabled by artificial intelligence in attempts to meddle in the coming general election campaign. In a new report, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security says it expects individuals affiliated with the Chinese government will continue to target diaspora […]