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TORONTO — Four protesters who unfurled keffiyehs inside Ontario’s legislature and were subsequently kicked out have been banned from Queen’s Park. Mariam Bebawy says she and three friends from York Centre 4 Palestine were given trespass notices last week from the Legislative Assembly of Ontario’s sergeant-at-arms after they held out their keffiyehs and began chanting […]

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Redblacks acquired Canadian long-snapper Peter Adjey from the Edmonton Elks on Wednesday for a 2025 third-round pick. The six-foot-three, 230-pound Adjey appeared in 36 regular-season games over the last two seasons with Edmonton. The Elks selected the 24-year-old Toronto native in the third round, No. 28 overall, of the 2022 CFL […]

TORONTO — Kevin Eiben and Will Fields will share defensive co-ordinator duties this season with the Toronto Argonauts. Eiben will also continue coaching the team’s linebackers and secondary, although Toronto hired Myron Lewis as its defensive backs coach. Eiben, a former Toronto linebacker, enters his eighth year as a coach with the team. Fields returns […]

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Ontario high school students will soon be able to spend most of their time in Grade 11 and 12 in an apprenticeship if they choose to participate in a new skilled trades program. Education Minister Stephen Lecce indicated last year that the government would be moving in that direction and, along with […]

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Loblaw Cos. Ltd.’s new chief executive said he’s “cautiously optimistic” that the company will be able to come to an agreement on the grocery code of conduct.  The grocer has been one of two major holdouts on the code, along with Walmart Canada, which is intended to promote fair dealings in the […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index was lower in late-morning trading, weighed down by losses in the energy stocks as the price of oil fell, while U.S. stock markets were mixed ahead of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision this afternoon. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 60.70 points at 21,653.84. In New York, the […]

BRAMPTON, Ont. — Grocery and drugstore retailer Loblaw Cos. Ltd. raised its quarterly dividend by 15 per cent as it reported its first-quarter profit and revenue rose compared with a year ago. The parent company of Loblaws and Shoppers Drug Mart says it will now pay a quarterly dividend of 51.3 cents per share, up […]

TORONTO — Barrick Gold Corp. reported a first-quarter profit attributable to equity holders of US$295 million, up from US$120 million a year earlier. The gold miner, which keeps its books in U.S. dollars, says the profit amounted to 17 cents US per diluted share for the quarter ended March 31, up from seven cents US […]

The investigation continues into a fatal collision that occurred during a high-speed police chase on the wrong way of Highway 401, located to the east of Toronto, on Monday night.  Monica Hudon of Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit confirmed with the media Tuesday that officers initiated the chase after spotting a cargo van they believed had […]

Voters in two Ontario ridings head to the polls in a pair of byelections Thursday, but most eyes will be on a Greater Toronto Area town, where the tight race comes with high stakes for both the premier and the new Liberal leader. The southwestern Ontario riding of Lambton-Kent-Middlesex was held since 2011 by Monte […]