Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — A mother has been charged after a baby was allegedly abandoned at a Toronto church last month. Police say officers were called to the Yonge Street and Broadway Avenue area around 10:40 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 21. A person who answered the phone at St. Monica’s Catholic Church said the baby was found […]

TORONTO — No stranger to big baseball moments, Kazuma Okamoto seems more than comfortable in the spotlight. The Toronto Blue Jays are hoping his success in Japan will translate to the Major League Baseball game. The American League champions agreed to terms with the slugger over the weekend on a four-year, US$60-million contract. The Blue […]

TORONTO — Ontario government employees are expected to return to the office five days per week starting Monday, despite objections from public sector unions. In August, Premier Doug Ford announced thousands of Ontario civil servants would return to the office full time by January, ending work-from-home and hybrid models that have persisted more than five […]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he will definitely follow through on a threat to remove Crown Royal whisky from liquor store shelves as soon as a Windsor-area bottling plant closes next month. Ford first put parent company Diageo in his crosshairs at a memorable press conference this fall when he slowly poured out […]

OTTAWA — Minto Group says it’s taking its apartment-focused real estate investment trust private in a $2.3-billion deal with Crestpoint Real Estate Investments LP. Minto says at the same time, it and Crestpoint will form a joint venture partnership that will hold the apartment REIT’s assets and aim to develop more. It says the partnership […]

TORONTO — Former Ontario Hockey League commissioner and Canadian Hockey League president David Branch has died. He was 77. The OHL and Canadian Hockey League announced his death Monday, stating he died Sunday. No cause of death was revealed. Branch was commissioner of the OHL from 1979 until his retirement in 2024. He was also […]

TORONTO — Ontario government employees are expected to return to the office five days per week starting today, despite objections from public sector unions. In August, Premier Doug Ford announced thousands of Ontario civil servants would return to the office full time by January, ending work-from-home and hybrid models that have persisted more than five […]

CORNWALL, ONT. — Police say two people are dead and another has been seriously injured after a shooting in Cornwall, Ont. Police say officers were called to a shooting on Saturday in the border city southeast of Ottawa. They say two people died at the scene and a third person was sent to hospital with […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say one man is dead after shots were fired on a bus near one of the city’s busiest shopping malls. Officers were called late Sunday to the Yorkdale GO bus terminal, adjacent to the Yorkdale Shopping Mall in North York. Police say one man had been shot and later died of […]

TOWNSHIP OF CRAMAHE — Provincial police say a pedestrian has been killed on the side of Highway 401 in central Ontario. OPP say officers were called to a collision involving two vehicles near Cochrane Road in the Township of Cramahe late Saturday. They say a vehicle was parked close to the median in the westbound […]