Author: The Canadian Press

No stranger to big fights as a two-time Olympian and former world amateur champion, Canadian boxer Tammara (Tamm) Thibeault looks forward to stepping into the ring Friday at Madison Square Garden. The 28-year-old middleweight from Shawinigan, Que., will be in good company in New York on the all-female card airing on Netflix. Most Valuable Promotions […]

Brigitte Thibault was practising for a mini-tour event outside Orlando, Fla., last December, when a recreational player on an adjacent hole shanked her hybrid off the fairway, firing the ball into the back of the young professional golfer’s head. Thibault’s hands instinctively flew to the back of her head as she lost consciousness and sank […]

TORONTO — A transgender-owned and LGBTQ-operated record label has launched with goals of supporting “left-of-centre” Canadian musicians. In founding Errant Records, Toronto-raised entertainment lawyer and former music manager Dani Oliva becomes a rare example of an openly transgender executive at a music label. Oliva says he intends to focus on artists outside the mainstream and […]

TORONTO — A regulator-led survey of Ontario mutual fund dealers based out of big banks shows a sizable minority are not always acting in the interest of clients. The survey of close to 3,000 dealers by the Ontario Securities Commission and the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization found that 25 per cent say they have at […]

TORONTO — Police say a 68-year-old man is dead and four people were taken to hospital after a fiery collision on Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway. Toronto police say the multi-vehicle collision happened in the westbound lanes near Lower Jarvis Street just after 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. They say a vehicle flipped onto its side against the […]

EDMONTON — Despite being selected in the first round of the 2024 NHL entry draft, the Edmonton Oilers have decided to part ways with forward Sam O’Reilly. The Oilers announced Tuesday night they have acquired 21-year-old forward Isaac Howard from the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for O’Reilly, who was selected 32nd overall in the […]

KINGSEY FALLS — Cascades Inc. says it’s permanently closing its manufacturing facility in Niagara Falls, N.Y., after almost four decades. The decision has led to the loss of 123 jobs and closure costs are estimated at $5 million. Production is to end no later than Sept. 3. Cascades makes cardboard packaging, toilet paper, paper towels […]

TORONTO — Defensive end Andrew Chatfield Jr. has been a bright light in what’s been a tough start for the Toronto Argonauts. Chatfield has posted a CFL-leading five sacks for Toronto (1-4), which acquired the 26-year-old Florida native from the Ottawa Redblacks on Feb. 10 for defensive back Craig James. The six-foot-two, 254-pound Chatfield anchors […]

LONDON — Public health officials in London, Ont., say one person has died and more than 40 have become sick in an outbreak of legionnaires’ disease. The Middlesex-London Health Unit says most of the 43 cases were reported over the last week and are within six kilometres of each other in the southeast side of […]

A newly released survey shows the number of homeless people in Toronto has more than doubled between the spring of 2021 and last fall. Toronto’s Street Needs Assessment survey estimates that 15,400 people were homeless in Toronto last October, up from about 7,300 in April 2021.  The report says the spike is a result of […]