Author: The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index more than wiped out its gains from the day before on Thursday, declining 1.7 per cent with most major sectors down, while U.S. markets also fell. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 387.60 points at 22,723.21. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 494.82 points at […]

HAMILTON — A film festival celebrating sex workers is set to open in Hamilton, with organizers describing the event as the first of its kind in Canada. The two-day Sex Workers’ Film and Arts Festival features documentaries, panels and performances. Festival organizer Jelena Vermilion says the goal of the event opening Thursday evening is to […]

HAMILTON — Bo Levi Mitchell and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats are feeling pretty good about themselves. The CFL club also faces its stiffest test yet looking to extend that streak. Coming of consecutive wins following an ugly start to the schedule, Hamilton (2-5) hosts the Montreal Alouettes (6-1) at Tim Hortons Field on Friday. The defending […]

The Parole Board of Canada has sent Brayden Bushby back to jail, revoking the release granted to the man convicted of killing an Indigenous woman by throwing a trailer hitch at her from a moving vehicle in Thunder Bay, Ont. Bushby, now 25, was sentenced in 2021 to eight years in prison for the 2017 […]

TORONTO — Fines for more than 100 parking offences in Toronto are increasing today, an initiative the city says is aimed at reducing congestion and promoting safer roads. The city says it raised the fines for 123 offences to help curb illegal parking, stopping and standing. It says increasing parking fines can reduce congestion by […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say they have arrested 10 people and laid more than 100 charges in a wide-reaching SIM swap scam. Investigators say more than 1,500 cellular accounts throughout Canada were compromised, resulting in more than $1 million in combined losses to victims, telecom companies and financial institutions. Det. David Coffey from the Toronto […]

HAMILTON — Davis Alexander will make his first CFL start Friday night when the Montreal Alouettes visit the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Alexander was listed atop Montreal’s quarterback depth chart Thursday, ahead of veteran Caleb Evans and first-year player James Morgan. The Portland State product replaced Evans in last week’s 20-16 win over Saskatchewan, completing 15-of-18 passes […]

OTTAWA — Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld fell short of an apology today after instigating a fracas that led two witnesses to storm out of a parliamentary committee hearing. Vandenbeld only says that she deeply regrets the “distress that this meeting caused the witnesses” on Wednesday. The MP had steered the rare summer meeting of the […]

TORONTO — When Dani Reiss took over his family’s business, Canada Goose Holdings Inc., in 2001, it had a reputation for clothing made for those needing to brave the coldest of colds. More than two decades later, the Toronto-based company has evolved into a luxury powerhouse selling everything from sneakers to windwear. Next on Reiss’s […]

KIRKFIELD, Ont. — Police have charged a man with murder in the case of the missing Markham, Ont., woman whose remains have been found in central Ontario. York Regional Police say the coroner has identified the remains found in Kirkfield earlier this week as those of Ying Zhang. Police say Zhang was last seen on […]