Author: The Canadian Press

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 […]

TORONTO — Brandon Ingram led the way with 29 points as the Toronto Raptors surged past the Atlanta Hawks 134-117 on Saturday. RJ Barrett of Mississauga, Ont., who is still on a minutes restriction after spraining his right knee, had a season-high 27 points and four rebounds in 30 minutes of play for Toronto (21-15). […]

TORONTO — Hockey Hall of Famer Brendan Shanahan will lead a review of men’s junior hockey in Ontario and deliver recommendations to Hockey Canada and three of its Ontario members, the national federation said Saturday. Shanahan, who was let go by the Toronto Maple Leafs last May after serving as team president for over a […]

BECKWITH TOWNSHIP — Provincial police in eastern Ontario say a 50-year-old man is dead after a snowmobiling accident. OPP say officers were called to a property adjacent to Brunton Sideroad in Beckwith Township, just west of Ottawa, shortly before 4:30 a.m. Saturday. They say a family member had located a man on the property and […]

TORONTO — The Toronto Zoo says a 13-year-old giraffe has died after getting caught in an opening door to his behind-the-scenes habitat. A post on the zoo’s Facebook page says Kiko, the male Masai giraffe, was being given access to an additional area of his habitat on Thursday when he began exploring the space and […]