Author: The Canadian Press

Weeks before global soccer fans are due to descend on Toronto and Vancouver for the World Cup, some Uber drivers were trying to score better working conditions during the tournament. At a routine meeting, they told the ride-hailing giant they’re worried about how they’ll contend with the traffic — and tempers — 650,000 expected guests […]

An Air France flight bound for the United States was diverted to Montreal due to American flight restrictions tied to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Online plane tracker FlightAware shows the plane was en route from Paris to Detroit when it landed at Trudeau International Airport on Wednesday. Air France says […]

TORONTO — Ontario’s ministry of health says a person in the province who recently travelled to East Africa is being tested for Ebola virus and is in hospital. A spokesperson says the patient is being tested for a range of infections, including the deadly virus, “out of an abundance of caution,” given the person’s recent […]

WINNIPEG — Police say they have made the largest drug bust in Manitoba history, arresting 33 people and seizing 525 kilograms of cocaine, fentanyl and other substances. It was a two-year interprovincial operation that also involved police forces in Ontario and Alberta, and with suspects alleged to have ties to the Hells Angels and Mexican […]

GUELPH — Greg Quick is the definition of a football lifer. He played centre at Ohio’s Baldwin-Wallace College before entering the coaching ranks in 1979 at Emporia State University in Kansas. In a career that’s spanned four-plus decades at the high school, NCAA and Canadian professional levels, Quick has held numerous coaching positions — on […]

TORONTO — Toronto police say three of their officers facing charges in Spain have returned to Canada and have been suspended with pay. The Mossos d’Esquadra police force in Barcelona confirmed Tuesday that three men were arrested for sexual assault and injuries after an incident in a taxi last week. Several Spanish media sites had […]

TORONTO — The Toronto Port Authority says the proposed island airport expansion will cost up to $5 billion. Port authority CEO RJ Steenstra has told a committee at Queen’s Park that the proposed expansion of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport will cost between $4 and $5 billion over 25 years. Premier Doug Ford’s government held […]

Ontario will ban the use and purchase of Chinese-made drones by the government and provincial police amid “growing security and privacy concerns” with foreign-made technology. The province says Chinese law may require companies incorporated in China to disclose data even if it’s stored abroad, and drones could access or store sensitive information. Ontario says it […]

Marineland says it is moving its complement of bears to a sanctuary in the United States as the park slowly winds down its operations.
 Marineland says the 12 bears are going to the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado, a charity that sits on a massive property for nearly 1,000 large carnivores including bears, lions and […]

When Emerson Prior works a nursing shift at Victoria’s Royal Jubilee hospital, patients comment on what a big guy he is, see his cauliflower ear and then ask if he plays rugby. “I don’t look like the standard nurse on my floor,” Prior said. The six-foot-two, 269-pound prop from Brockville, Ont., made his international debut […]