Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Matheus Pereira’s match-tying goal in the 90th minute and Canadian Theo Corbeanu’s goal and an assist kept Toronto FC’s slim playoff hopes alive with a 3-3 draw against Orlando City SC on Wednesday. Orlando forwards Daryl Dike and Antoine Griezmann scored late to put the visitors ahead. But Pereira knocked in a rebound […]

TORONTO — A neighbour broke up a fight between Regis Korchinski-Paquet and her brother hours before the 29-year-old fell to her death from a highrise balcony while police were inside the home, a coroner’s inquest heard Wednesday. Doreen Gayle, who lived next door to Korchinski-Paquet and her family, told a police watchdog agency what she […]

TORONTO — Demonstrators trying for a second day to block roadwork to remove Toronto bike lanes were met by police on Wednesday afternoon, deepening a faceoff between Premier Doug Ford’s government and cycling advocates. The work comes as the province pressed ahead with its plan to overhaul up to 19 kilometres of the city’s protected […]

The testimony of a key player in the Toronto Pearson airport gold heist has been adjourned until next week after he told a Brampton, Ont., court Wednesday that recalling details of his alleged abduction in Pakistan on the stand has left him traumatized. Arsalan Chaudhary is serving a four-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to […]

Brendan Bonello can name every goaltender to suit up for the Toronto Maple Leafs over the last two decades. He also eventually realized his own quest to stop NHL shooters would likely never materialize. The Mississauga, Ont., product patrolled the crease in junior and university hockey, along with a brief stint in the third-tier ECHL. […]

TORONTO — A neurologist who examined Regis Korchinski-Paquet’s records after her death told a coroner’s inquest Wednesday that it would be “nearly impossible” to determine that someone was acting aggressively due to delirium or psychosis after an epilepsy seizure without knowing their medical history. Agitated or aggressive behaviour stemming from postictal delirium or psychosis is […]

TORONTO — Three military members have been arrested for their alleged roles in an abduction for ransom, Toronto police said Wednesday, expanding on an investigation they say uncovered hundreds of ammunition rounds allegedly stolen from the Canadian Armed Forces. What started as an abduction investigation eventually “became much larger,” said Chief Myron Demkiw. “Whether you […]

A man who admitted his role in the Toronto Pearson airport gold heist is telling the trial for another man accused in the case that recalling his alleged abduction in Pakistan on the stand is leaving him traumatized. Arsalan Chaudhary was sentenced this spring to four years in prison after pleading guilty to theft over […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say three military members have been charged in an abduction investigation that uncovered hundreds of ammunition rounds allegedly stolen from the Canadian Armed Forces. Police say 2,500 rounds of ammunition, about half of them blanks, were allegedly stolen from the military. More coming. The Canadian Press

TORONTO — A cycling advocate is vowing to keep up a protest of Toronto bike lane removals after demonstrators successfully blocked the first night of Ontario’s latest planned work along a stretch of Bloor Street. In a statement, Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria says the Bloor Street work expected to start Tuesday night was halted by […]