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TORONTO — The federal government is set to announce funding to help Toronto host six matches at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow and federal Sports Minister Carla Qualtrough are scheduled to provide a funding update today at Toronto’s BMO Field, where the matches will be held. Neil Lumsden, Ontario’s Minister of […]

TORONTO — Ontario is set to clamp down on bad employers with big fines. Labour Minister David Piccini says his government will introduce legislation next week that will see fines increased for violations of the Employment Standards Act. Piccini says he is sending a message to “bad actor” employers there will be more severe consequences […]

TORONTO — An uninspired Game 5 effort put the pressure squarely on the Boston Bruins in their first-round NHL playoff series against Toronto. A Game 6 dud only made things worse.  The Maple Leafs topped the Bruins 2-1 on Thursday at Scotiabank Arena to force a seventh game on Saturday night at TD Garden. Bruins […]

TORONTO (AP) — William Nylander scored twice, Joseph Woll made 22 saves and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Boston Bruins 2-1 on Thursday night to force a seventh game in the first-round Eastern Conference series. Toronto has overcame a 3-1 series deficit, also staving off elimination with a 2-1 victory in overtime in Boston […]

Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative candidates won both Ontario byelections by convincing margins. PC candidate Zee Hamid, who has Liberal roots, won by more than 2,400 votes, or nine percentage points, over Liberal Galen Naidoo Harris in the riding of Milton, just west of Mississauga. Polls and observers suggested Milton would have been a tighter […]

TORONTO — William Nylander scored twice and Joseph Woll made 22 saves as the Toronto Maple Leafs downed the Boston Bruins 2-1 on Thursday to force Game 7 in their first-round series. Toronto has now won two straight — including Tuesday’s 2-1 overtime victory in Game 5 — after falling behind their Original Six rival […]

Polls have closed for byelections held in two Ontario ridings with a tight race expected in one of them. Polls and observers suggest the Progressive Conservatives and Liberals are neck and neck in Milton, just west of Mississauga, while the Tories are largely expected to hold onto the southwest Ontario riding of Lambton-Kent-Middlesex. Milton has […]

DALLAS (AP) — Police in Dallas won’t pursue criminal charges from a seven-year-old sexual assault claim against Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, according to a television report Thursday. Dallas police said there wasn’t any evidence to support the woman’s claim, and the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office said it has no case, Dallas TV station WFAA […]

TORONTO — Auston Matthews was back on the Scotiabank Arena ice Thursday morning.  That wasn’t the case when his Maple Leafs once again faced elimination roughly 10 hours later.  Head coach Sheldon Keefe announced following Toronto’s 11 a.m. skate — in which Matthews didn’t partake — the star sniper would be unavailable for Game 6 […]

TORONTO (AP) — The renovations at the Blue Jays’ home ballpark have altered the field’s dimensions, with this year’s changes shrinking the foul areas at Rogers Centre after last year’s initial phase, which brought in the outfield walls and made them higher. Some of those reconfigured walls are parallel to the first- and third-base lines. […]