Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Ontario’s financial watchdog says the province’s economy has recently started to feel the impact of American tariffs, shedding 38,000 jobs. Financial accountability officer Jeffrey Novak says in a report today that economic indicators for the second quarter of 2025 are mostly negative. Employment, in particular, took a hit with most of the job […]

Police are investigating after a semi truck with over $220,000 worth of meat was stolen in Windsor earlier this month. Windsor police say the parked truck containing 530 boxes of boneless beef chuck roast was stolen around 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 2 near the Windsor International Airport. Investigators say two men in a Jeep pulled […]

Chris Johnston isn’t surrendering his Bassmaster Elite Series overall title without a fight. Johnston, of Peterborough, Ont., opened the season-ending tournament Thursday on the Mississippi River at La Crosse, Wisc., tied with American Trey McKinney atop the standings with 690 points. Johnston, who last year became the first Canadian to secure the crown, is looking […]

Former captain Tyler Ardron returns to the Canadian rugby lineup up for the first time in almost four years on Friday when Canada hosts the United States in Calgary in the Pacific Nations Cup. The tournament marks the start of World Cup qualifying for the 25th-ranked Canadian men and 16th-ranked Americans. Ardron won the last […]

Provincial police say they have made an arrest as part of their response to a string of thefts from cemeteries in southwestern Ontario. Ontario Provincial Police say an officer patrolling the Waterford Greenwood Cemetery in Waterford on Tuesday noticed a sedan leaving the area and later found the vehicle on Wellington Street. Police say the […]

The chief of police in Kawartha Lakes, Ont., is defending assault charges his officers laid against a man who was the victim of an alleged break-in, saying Canadians’ rights to defend themselves and their property “are not unlimited.” The Kawartha Lakes Police Service has been facing criticism for charging a 44-year-old man in Lindsay, Ont., […]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the head of the company that owns Hamilton-based steel company Stelco “doesn’t give two hoots” about those workers. Lourenco Goncalves, the president and CEO of Cleveland-Cliffs, has spoken positively about U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel, including doubling them from 25 to 50 per cent. Earlier this week Goncalves […]

TORONTO — An Ontario arbitrator has ruled that a Toronto high school teacher who was fired after wearing a Halloween costume involving blackface four years ago should be reinstated and compensated for lost wages. In a decision last week, arbitrator Norm Jesin wrote that the teacher had gone to Parkdale Collegiate Institute in October 2021 […]

TORONTO — Toronto FC continued its rebuild Wednesday, selling defensive midfielder Deybi Flores to Al-Najma SC of the Saudi Pro League. The 29-year-old Honduran international was in the last year of his contract with Toronto, albeit with a club option for 2026. Flores was making US$656,667 this season. “Everyone at Toronto FC would like to […]

When a friend asked for help to build a fenced home for his dogs, Bryton Bongard made a deal: he would lend a hand in exchange for several puppies. That is how he ended up with what is now a pack of 16 strong, black and grey wolf-dog hybrids he calls his “babies.” The wolf-dogs […]