Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Chris Bassitt’s nine strikeouts in seven innings and Alejandro Kirk’s three-run homer lifted the Toronto Blue Jays to a 5-2 win against the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. extended his hit streak to 18 games with a two-out single to right field that started Toronto’s five-run rally in the sixth inning […]

TORONTO (AP) — Alejandro Kirk hit a three-run home run, Chris Bassitt struck out a season-high nine in seven innings to snap a three-start losing streak and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-2 on Tuesday night. Addison Barger hit a two-run double in Toronto’s five-run sixth inning as the Blue Jays handed […]

TORONTO (AP) — Baltimore Orioles right-hander Grayson Rodriguez was scratched from Tuesday’s start at Toronto minutes before the first pitch and replaced by right-handed reliever Albert Suárez. The Orioles did not give a reason for the move. Rodriguez was on the injured list from April 30-May 18 because of right shoulder inflammation. The 24-year-old Rodriguez […]

TORONTO — After landing back in Toronto, Summer McIntosh says she would return to Paris if selected as Canada’s flag bearer for the closing ceremony. The Toronto teenager who won four medals at the Paris Games returned home for some relaxation but says it would be “an honour” to carry the flag for Canada. At […]

TORONTO — Drake has thrown open the gates to his digital archives with a staggering content dump of photographs, behind-the-scenes videos and songs. The Toronto music superstar unleashed a massive trove of material on Tuesday afternoon without any previous announcement, sending his fans on an impromptu treasure hunt. The files were released on 100gigs.org and […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say they’ve charged a 22-year-old woman with first-degree murder after human remains and chemicals were allegedly found in an apartment in June. Police say on June 27, officers responded to a call at an apartment west of the city where they allegedly found biological remains and chemicals. They say that testing […]

OTTAWA — The Conservatives say they have no connection to a rash of conspicuously similar social-media posts that flooded the X platform following a Pierre Poilievre event in northern Ontario last week. The Conservative leader held a rally at a conference centre in Kirkland Lake on July 31, to what appears in a video to […]

Canada’s main stock index fell more than one per cent Tuesday, playing catch-up while U.S. stock markets regained some of the ground lost in a big plunge Monday when the Toronto market was closed. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 248.27 points at 21,979.36. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 294.39 […]

A fan who attended the Billy Talent concert that was disrupted when several thousand people pushed through the fences says that despite the chaos, which saw him get “sucker punched,” the band “put on one hell of a show.” Officials in Port Colborne, Ont. have said the venue at H. H. Knoll Park reached capacity […]

OTTAWA — Defenceman Carter Yakemchuk, selected seventh overall in June’s NHL entry draft in Las Vegas, has signed a three-year, entry level contract with the Ottawa Senators. Steve Staios, the Senators’ president of hockey operations and general manager, confirmed the agreement on Tuesday. The 18-year-old Yakemchuk spent the past three seasons with the Western Hockey […]